# trueventures.ai

> True Ventures' playground for AI experiments: True North (a newsletter you can personalize with your own LLM), True AI Office Hours, and Scrappy Sessions (an open demo night for builders).

True Ventures is an early-stage venture firm. Everything here is public. Nothing on this site is investment advice or an offer.

## The playground

- [The playground, for agents](https://www.trueventures.ai/index.md): everything on the home page in one place — Scrappy Sessions, True North, AI office hours, and the True companies in the playground and the room.
- [The playground, for people](https://www.trueventures.ai/): the same page, designed for humans.
- [The room](https://www.trueventures.ai/room): a 3D room to walk around in, with an object for each company.

## Scrappy Sessions

- [Scrappy Sessions, for agents](https://www.trueventures.ai/scrappy.md): what it is, upcoming dates and themes, how a night goes, the board of what visitors are building, and how to pin a note for someone.
- [Scrappy Sessions, for people](https://www.trueventures.ai/scrappy): the same page, designed for humans.

## True North

A newsletter from the True team. Each edition can be sent to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT to get a version personalized for the reader.

- [Many take a lot](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-10-21): 2026-10-21. Models compiled into chips, token budgets without a benchmark, Jon on abundance over scarcity, and what True founders are building.
- [Give AI a job worth doing](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-09-17): 2026-09-17. What we’re taking from Connected Stack, what our fellows shipped, and the founders putting AI to work.
- [Your failure data is gold](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-08-04): 2026-08-04. Failure data as moat, launch every month forever, PMF ceiling analysis, plus True's datalake goes live, Connected Stack returns, and what True founders are building.
- [Outcome-maxxing, judgment capture, and agent guardrails](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-06-23): 2026-06-23. Outcome-maxxing token spend, pricing agents to the human not the seat, captured judgment as the moat, plus Connected Stack 2026 returns and what True founders are building.
- [The "Candle Mold" Thesis](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-05-14): 2026-05-14. The mold is the asset, build for model change, your corpus is the moat, plus the LA accelerator recap and what True founders are building.
- [The attack surface is everywhere](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-04-13): 2026-04-13. Your agent stack is an attack surface, stop helicopter parenting your agents, Physical AI's moat is data, and what True founders are building.
- [The AI-sniffing-AI loop](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-03-19): 2026-03-19. AI Office Hours on Polsia, stop pricing on tokens, the AI-sniffing-AI loop, and what True founders are building.
- [Burn the tokens, and the Wabi Sabi of it all](https://www.trueventures.ai/archive/2026-03-02): 2026-03-02. Handshake AI's $1B run, token spend as VO2 max, the Wabi Sabi of AI, and what True founders are building.

## True AI Office Hours

- [True AI Office Hours](https://officehours.trueventures.dev): founders pitch AI versions of True's partners and get structured feedback. A person starts each session themselves.

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- [True Ventures](https://trueventures.com)
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