Titus GahissyTitus GahissyProduct builder, systems architect, and investor.

Writing

Here, I write about AI, product, and building through three lenses: ideas worth taking seriously, systems that help teams ship, and lessons the work keeps teaching me.

2026

Build Redundancies

Build Redundancies

A friend's forced absence nearly killed his company - he was the only one holding the keys. Business continuity is not a big-company luxury.

July 9, 20268 min readEntrepreneurship
La Fable selon Anthropic

La Fable selon Anthropic

Une merveille prêtée à tout le monde, presque pour rien, le temps de quelques jours. Toute ressemblance avec l'actualité n'est pas fortuite.

What If You're Not an Overthinker?

What If You're Not an Overthinker?

Psychology has a name for the machinery behind overthinking - and the honest version of the story is less flattering, and more useful, than the one we like to tell.

July 3, 20265 min readMindset
Find Your Queen. Build the Systems. Trust the Plan.

Find Your Queen. Build the Systems. Trust the Plan.

Success rarely comes from motivation, luck, or certainty. It comes from three things that develop on their own clocks - and change everything the moment they connect.

July 2, 202611 min readEntrepreneurship
Become Someone Who Finishes Things

Become Someone Who Finishes Things

The world is drowning in starters. Finishing is the tax that turns a vision into proof.

June 27, 20262 min readEntrepreneurship
Beware of the Claude Effect

Beware of the Claude Effect

A bank CIO's warning at VivaTech showed me AI didn't change what my team builds - it erased the benefit of the doubt that work used to earn on sight

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Why so many good products never catch - and what Uri Levine's handbook for entrepreneurs gets right about loving the problem instead

June 10, 202614 min readBook
Introducing Greenfield: Ideas Worth Building

Introducing Greenfield: Ideas Worth Building

Founder energy deserves fresher fields. I keep collecting ideas I will never build myself - Greenfield is where I share them, one at a time.

June 6, 20266 min readEntrepreneurship
My AI Journey - Part 1: From Autocomplete to Atlas

My AI Journey - Part 1: From Autocomplete to Atlas

Three tools, one wall, and the map that lets humans and machines build from the same truth.

The Next Global Standard is Being Written

The Next Global Standard is Being Written

The physical world is getting its own protocol. The earlier Africa embraces it, the better.

The Industrialization of Software

The Industrialization of Software

What happens to jobs, skills, and education when code becomes a factory output

January 8, 20267 min readAI

2025

Where do we actually go from here?

Where do we actually go from here?

We're compressing months into weeks. But will we reclaim the time, or just fill it with more work?

December 20, 20255 min readAI
Mission Driven

Mission Driven

When a book gives you the language for something you already practiced instinctively

December 16, 20255 min readBook
Garbage in, garbage out

Garbage in, garbage out

What AI is teaching us about how we communicate with humans

December 7, 20257 min readAI
The new currency is your authenticity

The new currency is your authenticity

Why human presence, expertise, and depth are becoming more valuable in an AI-saturated world

December 4, 20256 min readAI
Building in the Dark

Building in the Dark

What it means to build tech in places where connectivity and infrastructure are still taking shape

November 26, 20256 min readEntrepreneurship
The African Tech Alliance

The African Tech Alliance

Assembling a Continent-Wide Tech Team

June 5, 20257 min readIdeation
The Organized Procrastinator

The Organized Procrastinator

Why my most productive weeks often follow what looks like doing nothing at all

June 2, 20254 min readProductivity
AI: Is Africa Left Behind?

AI: Is Africa Left Behind?

The infrastructure gaps are real. The extraction is real. So is the agency. What Africa's AI decade actually depends on.

Minimum Valuable Product

Minimum Valuable Product

Rethinking MVP: Why 'Valuable' Beats 'Viable' Every Time

May 19, 20256 min readProduct
Studio Gahissy

Studio Gahissy

Solutions and Design under one roof

May 14, 20254 min readProject
Hello! It's me, again

Hello! It's me, again

Every now and then, I remember that I love blogging