CIAM
State of CIAM 2026: 14 Trends from 200+ Vendor Changelogs
An annual research piece based on 12 months of monitoring 200+ CIAM vendor changelogs. The 14 trends shaping customer identity in 2026 and the vendors leading each shift.
Writing
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GEO
How to Get Into Google's Knowledge Graph: The Entity Playbook for AEO and GEO
Google's Knowledge Graph is the entity layer beneath AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Here is the exact playbook for becoming a recognized, citable entity, and how AEO and GEO build on top of it.
Password Hashing
bcrypt vs Argon2 vs scrypt vs PBKDF2: A 2026 Decision Framework
Most "use bcrypt" posts are from 2014. Argon2 won the Password Hashing Competition in 2015 and nobody updated. Here is the actual 2026 decision framework for picking a password hashing algorithm.
Startup Credits
$250k+ in Startup Credits in 90 Days: The Application-Order Playbook
Founders apply for credits in random order and get rejected because they tripped a referral-required gate they could have unlocked first. Here is the sequence that unlocks $250k+ in 90 days.
CIAM
Auth0 vs Okta vs Stytch vs WorkOS vs SSOJet (2026): A Buyer-Stage Framework
The five CIAM contenders in 2026 don't compete head-on. Each wins for a different stage and buyer. Here's the framework I use, with the honest tradeoffs each carries.
Privacy
How to Protect Your Data Online Without a VPN: Encrypted DNS and Apple Private Relay (2026)
Your ISP logs every site you visit through unencrypted DNS lookups. Three free tools (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Google 8.8.8.8, Apple Private Relay) fix most of it. Here's how each one works and what it can't do.
GEO
The GEO Measurement Study: 50,000 AI Citations in 90 Days, What Actually Moves Citation Share
I tracked 50,000 citations across ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot for 90 days. What actually moved citation share, and what didn't.
Security
Travel Security Checklist: A Practical 2026 Guide
A founder's practical travel security checklist for 2026: realistic threats, what to actually do before, during, and after a trip, and where to skip the paranoia.
Identity
Authentication vs Authorization: A 2026 Founder's Guide
A founder's guide to the difference between authentication and authorization in 2026, with passkeys, agent auth, JWT pitfalls, and the mistakes I see at scale.
GEO
How to Evaluate a GEO Solution: The Vertical-Fit Checklist
Most GEO buying decisions start with the wrong question: which tool monitors the most AI platforms. Here is a practical checklist for evaluating whether a GEO solution actually fits your industry.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Product Roadmap: A 2026 Founder's Playbook
How to build a cybersecurity product roadmap that survives AI security, compliance deadlines, and threat-driven emergencies. A founder's four-lane framework.
GEO
What GEO Looks Like for Cybersecurity Buyers: CISOs, CIOs, and Security Teams
Security buyers research vendors in AI tools before a sales rep ever hears from them. The way a CISO interrogates ChatGPT looks nothing like how a marketer does. Here is what GEO actually looks like for cybersecurity.
SaaS
The Hard Truths About SaaS in 2026
Building software just got 10x easier with AI. That breaks most of the 2015 SaaS playbook. Here are the new hard truths every SaaS founder needs to see clearly.
GEO
Why GEO Has to Be Vertical (When SEO Never Was)
SEO became a horizontal layer because its substrate was uniform: one ranking algorithm, one signal set, one results format. GEO can't collapse that way. Here is the architectural reason.
Entrepreneurship
Ten Skills I Gained Building Tech Companies (That I Wish I'd Learned Sooner)
The ten skills that actually move the needle for tech founders, from a CIAM founder who scaled to a billion users and is now building in AI security.
AI
Software Development with AI: What Actually Works in 2026
An honest practitioner's view of AI-assisted software development in 2026: what Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Devin actually do well, and where they still break.
Cybersecurity
The Top Cybersecurity YouTube Channels to Learn From in 2026
A categorised, founder-curated list of 44 cybersecurity YouTube channels organised by what you actually want to learn: offense, defence, bug bounty, certs, careers.
AI
Google I/O 2026: The Agentic Web Just Went Into Production
Google I/O 2026 shipped an entire agent stack: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, WebMCP, Gemini Spark, and Agent Payments Protocol. What it means for builders.
Cybersecurity
30 Cybersecurity Search Engines Every Researcher Should Bookmark
A curated, categorised guide to 30 search engines that security researchers actually use: Shodan, Censys, Dehashed, ExploitDB, and the rest.
AI Search
Speaking at SaaStr AI Annual 2026: Why LLM Visibility Is the GTM Shift Nobody Saw Coming
First time on the SaaStr stage. 12, 500 founders and operators. One message: if your company isn't showing up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI
AI and B2B SaaS growth
The Pricing Model That Proves You're Actually AI-Native
Per-seat pricing made sense when software was a tool. When software becomes the labor, the math breaks.
cybersecurity
I Spent a Decade Building a Password Company. Here's Why I'd Tell You to Kill Yours
I spent ten years engineering, scaling, and defending password-based authentication for a CIAM platform that grew to a billion users.
software
Programming in 2026: Should Students Still Learn Code?
AI generates code faster than humans can review it. So why are computer science enrollments hitting record highs?
cybersecurity
19 Billion Passwords Are Circulating. The Number Isn't the Story
Every headline put the 19 billion figure in 60-point type. Almost none of them mentioned that the unique entry rate is in the single digits.
cybersecurity
Citation Share: The Metric Cybersecurity CMOs Should Be Reporting to the Board in 2026
Traditional marketing metrics are becoming less predictive of pipeline as buyers shift to AI-powered research.
AEO
The Cybersecurity AEO Playbook: How Security Vendors Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
A buyer-journey-mapped framework for cybersecurity vendors to win Answer Engine Optimization.
AEO
Why Gated Whitepapers Are Killing Your AI Visibility (And What Cybersecurity Marketers Should Do Instead)
The cybersecurity industry's reliance on gated PDFs and MQL-driven content is actively destroying future pipeline by making the best content invisible to
authentication
Why We Cancelled Auth0 at 350,000 MAU (And How MojoAuth Saved Us $200K Annually)
We cancelled Auth0 over a year ago. Not because it stopped working, but because scaling to 350,000 monthly active users made the pricing model untenable.
open source
Project Glasswing and the Future of Collaborative AI Defense
No single organization can defend against AI-powered attacks alone. Project Glasswing's $100M consortium model may be the template for the next decade of
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Claude Code for Engineers: A Practitioner's Playbook for Software, QA, and Security Teams
The opinionated guide to running Claude Code well. CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, hooks, and the workflows that produce quality code for engineers, QA, and