Today marks a milestone I will always remember.
We had our very first kickoff meeting with our business tech partner for our new AI fintech venture in taxation. After weeks of conversations, alignment, and paperwork, they officially signed the agreement to come on board as our advisory partner. Not just that. They will also be our first real customer.
That level of trust is not small.
For a startup that is still shaping its foundations, having an established business say, “We believe in you. Build this with us,” is deeply affirming. It shifts everything from theory to reality.
What excites me most is not just building technology. It is building something useful. Something grounded in real workflows, real compliance pressures, real human bottlenecks. In today’s session, we began mapping their daily processes, the nuances of their tax operations, the friction points, the repetitive tasks, the risk areas. We asked questions. We listened. We took notes obsessively.
This is where real innovation begins.
AI for the sake of AI is noise.
AI that solves a genuine operational pain point is value.
I am grateful that they are willing to open up their internal systems to us so we can learn properly. Understanding how they actually work, not how we assume they work, will shape the platform into something practical and scalable for other similar firms in the future.
There is something powerful about being trusted early.
It comes with responsibility.
It comes with pressure.
But it also comes with clarity.
Today made this venture feel real. Not just an idea on paper, not just incorporation documents filed away, but a living project with stakeholders, expectations, and shared ambition.
I am grateful for my partners who are equally committed.
Grateful for this advisory firm’s confidence in us.
Grateful for the opportunity to build something that can change how people in the tax and finance sector work.
We are at the beginning.
There is a long road ahead.
But today, it feels like the right road.
And that is enough.
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