Vibe-coded CRM vs. paid Attio: the hidden cost is your attention
every · x · 2026-10-21
- On Every's podcast, Factorial Capital founder Matt Hartman explains his thesis: assume every early startup will pivot, and back technical founders whose "pivot foot" is their engineering skill — Hugging Face's journey from teen chatbot to a $13B Nvidia acquisition is the case study.
- Field example: consultant Natalia Zarina vibe-coded her own CRM and ran it for months, but maintenance kept eating the attention she needed for client AI work, so she moved to paid tool Attio. The takeaway: vibe coding gets you a usable tool, but keeping it running has an ongoing cost — your attention — and paying for software eventually wins.
- Also in the issue: how a 28-person agritech startup runs on agents in Slack, using the Every Agent as an onboarding buddy, and seven predictions on the future of work.
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