The 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

Buy Harvey, or build your own? A smarter way to decide.

A four-part way to think through any AI tool decision — buy it or build it — plus a two-minute tool to test your own.

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Ernie the Attorney
Jul 07, 2026
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Every AI decision you make is a bet on the future. You just haven’t written the bets down.

That’s the idea behind a thought-provoking Every.to article by Dan Pupius, the CTO at The General Partnership. He argues that people building with AI should make their hidden bets explicit — so they notice sooner when one stops being true.

It’s aimed at startup foun…

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