Hello Hello,
I hope you all had a fantastic week and are making great moves. Here’s the 😇 Good, 😈 Bad and the 🤢 Ugly at Fusion-42.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been tightening Fusion42 around a single focus — building Arthur, your mentor, co-founder, and team.
This marks a deeper move toward becoming a truly product-led company — one that helps founders move faster, bring clarity, stay organised, and build with precision.
As part of the company’s realignment, Kurt’s role at Fusion42 has concluded. I’m grateful for the early energy and momentum he helped create and wish him every success. We remain open to collaborating again in future where it makes sense.
Henrik has joined a flagship AI initiative in Riyadh, KSA, where he’s leading new partnerships. He continues to support Fusion42 as a board member and investor.
The focus now is execution:
Launching Arthur’s public roadmap and founder feedback loop
Preparing for upcoming founder sessions and partner pilots
We’re building something that lasts — a platform that truly scales founders
😇 The Good
The build is underway. With Jiva.ai powering the agentic stack for deep research and logic, and Cloud202 (AWS Advanced Tier) standing up the foundations and AI middleware that bring it to you, we’ve assembled an A-team to bring Arthur to life.
This isn’t about working faster; it’s about shortening the path to proof. Everything we ship helps you do three things better:
Get market-ready. End-to-end GTM: prove pull, spend where it converts, shorten the sales cycle, and lift retention with product-led value.
Get fundraise-ready. Build the clarity, docs, and proof points that create conviction — then match with the right investors.
Build a resilient business. The kind customers stay with and investors want to back — with strength across HR, IP, finance, legal, and ops.
You get the clarity, the plan, and the receipts — less talk, more traction.
⭐️ We’re lining up new live calls on specialist topics to keep bringing you value — check your inbox
💡 Workshop: Cap Table Clarity — Build, Manage, and Protect Your Equity
📅 Thursday 13 November | 🕗 8 PM GST / 5 PM CET / 8 AM PST
Your cap table is your leverage. In this practical session, we’ll cover:
How to structure a clean, investor-ready cap table (and fix messy ones)
Understanding vesting, option pools, and founder dilution — in plain English
Modelling waterfall scenarios so you know who gets what at every stage
Common founder mistakes that destroy leverage — and how to avoid them
How Capquest automates tracking, vesting, and round planning so you’re always due-diligence ready
More details coming soon in your event invite— I’ll see you in the session.
😈 The Bad (and how we deal with it)
After months of prep and partner conversations, I made the call to pause this year’s Global Super Accelerator (GSA).
It wasn’t easy — but it was right. Fusion42 has always been about execution over optics, and delivering GSA to the standard founders deserve would have meant compromises I wasn’t willing to make.
Time is the scarce resource. Focusing on the right things — the ones that join the dots along the journey — matters more than doing more.
This isn’t the end of GSA; it’s a reset. We’re rebuilding it the way it should be — product-led, integrated with Arthur, and designed to deliver continuous value, not just a nine-week sprint.
Pivoting and iterating are never easy, but they’re essential. Change is uncomfortable — and that’s usually the sign you’re moving forward.
🤢 The Ugly
Some of the internals are still rough around the edges — scattered docs, manual steps, and a few too many moving parts. We’re cleaning as we go, consolidating everything into one source of truth and tightening the weekly build rhythm.
⭐️ Doing a Marie Kondo on a startup is oddly satisfying — and slightly masochistic. But the clutter has to go before the real build begins.
Enjoy and hope to see you soon.
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