How a Frontier Team Can Help Your Company Keep Up With AI

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Every time a new AI model drops, companies face the same dilemma: Figure out what’s new and how to use it, or focus on getting work done.

Every solves this dilemma with a frontier team: a small group that tests new models and turns useful experiments into tools and workflows for the rest of the company.

On this week’s episode of The Every Podcast, Natalia Quintero sits down with all seven members of Every’s frontier team to ask what they’re building—from a tabless browser that helps protect your attention to a personal agent orchestrator called Minga—and what they want to try next.

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Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

• Follow Every: https://x.com/every
• Compound Writing plugin: https://every.to/guides/compound-writing
• Every’s vibe checks: https://every.to/vibe-check
• Follow Dan Shipper: https://x.com/danshipper
• Follow Natalia Quintero: https://x.com/NataliaZarina
• Follow Mike Taylor: https://x.com/hammer_mt
• Follow Jack Cheng: https://x.com/jackcheng
• Follow Arielle Shipper: https://x.com/ArielleShipper
• Follow Katie Parrott: https://x.com/kplikethebird
• Follow Jannik Jung: https://x.com/JannikJung

0:00 Introduction: Why every company needs a frontier team
2:42 Why the best frontier teams have pirates and architects 
4:57 How Head of Evals Mike Taylor builds personal benchmarks 
6:46 How Opus edited an explainer video using Slack messages and meeting notes 
10:20 Working with AI means protecting other people’s attention 
12:26 Why a frontier team needs a “wrangler” like Arielle Shipper 
18:58 Why senior editor Jack Cheng built a tabless browser 
24:37 How resident writer Katie Parrott teaches her AI writing plugin who the reader is
30:51 Inside engineer Jannik Jung’s personal AI orchestrator 
35:41 Compound engineer Kieran Klaassen uses AI to build power tools