Field Notes

Notes from the fundraising road.

Real-world playbooks, VC research methodology, MCP integration breakdowns, and founder essays: written by people who have actually shipped products and raised rounds.

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The 60-second MCP install, and why it matters

Why we ship Dormy as a Model Context Protocol server, what that actually means for non-technical founders, and how it changes the shape of an AI product.

A founder's guide to reading VC Twitter

The signals that matter. The noise to ignore. Patterns that predict who's actually deploying capital this quarter, and who's just posting.

Researching check sizes without PitchBook

The open-data approach we built into Dormy: SEC filings, public AUM, partner LinkedIn movements. What you can replicate, and where you still hit a wall.

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