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CMS × Brighteye   From your very first conversation about splitting equity to the day an investor asks for your cap table, how you structure ownership and funding will shape your company’s future. The earliest legal and financial decisions - often made casually on the back of a napkin or in your phone notes - can become the hardest to fix later.   Clean founder arrangements, smart fundraising tools, and tax-efficient incentives all help you grow faster, raise cleaner rounds,

Consumer health has become a hive of startup activity, helping people learn about their bodies, adjust their behaviours and work towards healthier lives. We dove into this space and formed a market map to summarise our understanding of the market and highlight areas of opportunity.

We dive into the proliferation of AI companions and the roles we can expect them to play in our lives, in our finances, our health, our education and our wider lifestyle.

We canter through how Gen Z is reshaping our approach to learning and work, based around an article from Balderton.

Each construction project brings new people and new expectations, but when knowledge doesn’t flow and compliance gets reinterpreted on every site, the sector repeats its most costly mistakes. A new layer of tools is helping teams preserve both insight and integrity. We dove into this space.

Forming your Business Review Process in a repeatable, impactful way, is key to maintaining healthy relationships with your key customers. This guide from Andrea Spillman-Gajek gives you tips on preparing for the review, what do during the review and how to follow-up for maximal impact.

Factories are evolving, but without a workforce enablement layer, the machines won’t matter. Let’s fix that before production grinds to a halt. We explore the market for learning and work solutions tackling this important problem.

Recent stumbles in AI company shares led to some suggestions that AI hype is over-egged and that the consequences for the workforce may be lower than initially expected. We disagree. Learning holds the key to its effective use and wider proliferation across our economies.

We enjoyed reading Michael Stothard's article outlining firstminute capital's blue collar thesis. We wanted to add our spin, given the work we did earlier in the year on AI hiring tools.

In a Sidekick exclusive, Ed Metz and Eric Tucker dive into the effectiveness and success of a US Government program designed to catalyse education and learning breakthroughs.

Research is a powerful driver of progress, helping us explore and understand the unknown, build new knowledge, and solve complex problems. We dive into how tools used in scientific, technical and academic research are evolving, including a market map.

A quick article on how Sana's new partnership with the Swedish government is a great example of how Edtech is central to realising societal gains from AI.