Notes from Coworking Fridays

During SQ Collective's Stage session this week, which is a part of our co-working Friday: "The bad news is no one knows about their pricing. The good news is there's a way to think about it." Mohammed Sebti , former Simon-Kucher consultant turned startup mentor, dropped truth bombs at our recent Stage session on Pricing Strategy . Here's the reality for most of us building products: We guess. We look at a competitor, undercut them by 10%, and pray. Or we take our costs, add a

On The Stage this week, Henry from Smithery  said something that broke the whole conversation open: "We have a bit of a Claude Paradox. You have models that have big brains but no arms and legs." They can write a sonnet, but they can't check your calendar. They can solve math problems, but they can't ping your team on Slack. That’s where the Model Context Protocol (MCP)  comes in. And if you’re a builder, this is the part where you stop treating AI like a chatbot and start tr