Rihs Ventures Library

Writing, playbooks, and field notes.

Practical thinking on building companies, finding distribution, and putting AI to work inside organizations. Original research, founder references, and ideas from the field.

Founders & startups GTM engineering Enterprise AI NYC ecosystem IRL distribution
Featured Resources

Ideas worth keeping.

World map showing AI lawmaking and policy activity across twenty-five jurisdictions
Original Research · Interactive Tool

The Global AI Policy Radar: AI policy across 25 jurisdictions.

AI rules and policy frameworks are developing across twenty-five jurisdictions, and no two take the same approach. Track 533 laws, regulations, policy instruments, programs and proposals from Washington and Bogota to Brussels, Abu Dhabi, Jakarta, and Beijing, each summarized in plain English and linked to an official source.

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US edition of the AI Policy Radar showing state-level legislation activity
Original Research · Interactive Tool

The US State AI Policy Radar: every AI & data-center bill, all 50 states.

AI and data-center legislation is moving through nearly every US state. Track 1,200+ bills in one place, mapped and summarized in plain English, and see which states are most active and which aspects of AI are actually being regulated.

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Interactive selector for compliance briefings by sector and jurisdiction
Original Research · Interactive Tool

Regulatory Briefings for Builders.

Pick your sector and one or more jurisdictions for a side-by-side regulatory briefing: the key regulations in force, a hands-on founder FAQ, and pending legislation.

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Isometric illustration of a founder navigating a maze of meetings toward a focused workspace
Founder Playbook · Essay

How to manage your calendar as a founder.

Your schedule is your strategy. Three time leaks that quietly kill momentum, and the weekly audit that fixes them.

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Founder Playbook · Essay

How to manage your calendar as a founder.

Your schedule is your strategy. Three time leaks and a weekly audit that fixes them.

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Enterprise AI · Essay

The hottest role in enterprise AI is not another engineer.

AI strategists turn executive ambition into adopted workflows and measurable results.

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Founder Reference · PDF

Building an MVP with a contractor.

The minimum legal stack for protecting code ownership and keeping a contractor-built MVP diligence-ready.

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Original Research · Ecosystem Map

The NYC Startup Ecosystem Heatmap.

Where New York founders, operators, investors, technical talent, and real-world communities are concentrating.

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Session Deck · PDF

Building Live Trading Agents: From Prototype to Production.

From our educational session with The AI Collective: data sourcing, signal generation, backtesting, risk management, and the stack you need to go live responsibly.

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From the Notebook

What comes next.

Shorter field notes can test an idea before it becomes a definitive guide, map, or playbook.

GTM Engineering

GTM is becoming a technical function.

How data enrichment, automation, model-assisted research, and human judgment are changing early distribution.

IRL Distribution

The network is part of the product.

Why dinners, salons, and curated rooms can create trust and distribution that digital channels cannot reproduce.

Enterprise AI

From pilots to adopted workflows.

A practical framework for selecting valuable work, deploying responsibly, and building internal ownership.