humans are so back

goooood morning and welcome back to the Leaderboard. The newsletter that makes you say "fine ill download another app". In today's issue, we're diving into a tool to make those cold intros a lot warmer, a command tool for users navigating your site, and GitHub's new bridge for AI agents.

The Swarm is a tool that helps B2B companies find warm intros through the people they already know. It scans your team’s network, maps out connections, and shows who can help you get in the door, with actual context, not just a name in a spreadsheet.

🔥 Our take: Every startup has that one dusty Airtable of “maybe useful contacts.” The Swarm is what happens when someone finally turns that into something useful. It doesn’t just mine your network, it makes it actionable. Way better than guessing who knows who over Slack.

AI Command Bar lets users tell your app what they want to do, in plain language. No prompt engineering, no weird syntax. Just “send the invoice” or “pull the latest report,” and it runs the action behind the scenes. Think macOS Spotlight, but for your own product.

🔥 Our take: It’s like giving your UI a command line... without making your users feel like engineers. If your product’s full of menus and nested clicks, this turns it into something people can actually move through fast. Bonus: you don’t need to teach them how to use it.

The GitHub MCP Server lets AI agents access GitHub APIs locally and securely. It connects directly to your development environment (including VS Code), so agents can perform real actions, like reviewing code, opening pull requests, or managing issues, without sending data off to external services.

🔥 Our take: This isn’t just another plugin. It’s GitHub giving AI agents a real seat at the table, with guardrails. If you’ve been hacking together weird dev agents, this is the part where things get way more official (and less sketchy). 

It’s one of those questions no one wants to answer out loud but Waseem Daher (CEO of Pilot and three-time founder) is doing just that. In this AMA, he breaks down how to think about founder salaries across different stages, what’s reasonable, and why underpaying yourself isn’t always the smart move.

Whether you're bootstrapping or funded, this is the kind of thread that turns quiet backchannel DMs into open advice.

Drop your questions. Confess your number. No judgement—probably.