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Add commercial strategy and cofounder pages
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import type { Metadata } from "next";
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import Link from "next/link";
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export const metadata: Metadata = {
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title: "Cofounder | Open Discovery",
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description:
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"Join Open Discovery to build autonomous, evidence-first algorithm improvement for databases, logistics, and other software-intensive industries.",
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};
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const currentFacts = [
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["Product wedge", "Verified algorithm improvement"],
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["First market", "Database and data systems"],
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["Next market", "Logistics with real replay data"],
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["Stage", "Pre-revenue, proving capability"],
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["Near-term target", "Paid pilots and a strong YC application"],
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];
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const principles = [
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{
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number: "01",
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title: "Build for measurable value",
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body: "Start where correctness is testable and a better algorithm changes compute cost, latency, capacity, route cost, utilization, or service quality.",
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},
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{
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number: "02",
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title: "Evidence before claims",
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body: "Freeze the baseline and evaluator, preserve every candidate, and independently confirm a winner before calling it an improvement.",
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},
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{
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number: "03",
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title: "Partners, not task takers",
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body: "Challenge assumptions, bring your own ideas, share hard decisions, and help choose the company we build together.",
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},
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];
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const trialWork = [
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"Talk to database and logistics buyers about expensive algorithmic bottlenecks.",
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"Help turn one real workload into a frozen, trustworthy evaluation contract.",
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"Search and test candidate improvements without contaminating the baseline.",
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"Package a verified result into a paid pilot that a customer can adopt.",
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];
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const workingAgreement = [
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"Equal founder ownership, with normal vesting, if we commit.",
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"No salary until funding, meaningful revenue, or YC.",
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"Part-time is fine at the start with reliable weekly contribution.",
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"Joint decisions on product, customers, research, and company direction.",
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];
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export default function CofounderPage() {
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return (
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<main className="min-h-screen bg-[#1f1e1d] text-[#faf9f6]">
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<section className="relative overflow-hidden border-b border-[#f0eee6]/10 pt-28">
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<div className="pointer-events-none absolute left-1/2 top-0 h-[34rem] w-[50rem] -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-cyan-400/[0.08] blur-[140px]" />
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<div className="relative mx-auto grid max-w-6xl gap-12 px-6 py-20 md:py-28 lg:grid-cols-[1.35fr_0.8fr] lg:items-center">
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<div>
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-cyan-300/80">
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Open Discovery · Cofounder brief · 2026
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</p>
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<h1 className="mt-6 max-w-4xl text-5xl font-semibold leading-[1.02] tracking-tight md:text-7xl">
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Build the lab that makes algorithms{" "}
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<span className="text-cyan-300">better.</span>
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</h1>
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<p className="mt-7 max-w-3xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/70 md:text-xl">
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Open Discovery is building AI that autonomously finds, implements,
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and verifies commercially useful algorithm improvements. Databases
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are the first proving ground. Logistics is the next design-partner
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market. The broader autonomous experiment vision comes later.
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</p>
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<div className="mt-10 flex flex-col gap-3 sm:flex-row">
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<Link
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href="/strategy"
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className="inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-cyan-300 px-6 py-3 font-semibold text-[#1f1e1d] transition hover:bg-cyan-200"
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>
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Read the operating strategy →
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</Link>
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<Link
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href="/contribute"
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className="inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-full border border-[#f0eee6]/15 bg-[#f0eee6]/[0.03] px-6 py-3 font-medium text-[#faf9f6]/85 transition hover:border-cyan-300/35 hover:text-cyan-200"
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>
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Start a conversation
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</Link>
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</div>
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</div>
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<aside className="rounded-2xl border border-[#f0eee6]/12 bg-[#faf9f6]/[0.035] p-6 shadow-2xl shadow-black/20 md:p-8">
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-amber-300/80">
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What is true today
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</p>
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<dl className="mt-6 divide-y divide-[#f0eee6]/10">
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{currentFacts.map(([term, value]) => (
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<div key={term} className="grid gap-1 py-4 sm:grid-cols-[0.8fr_1.2fr] sm:gap-5">
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<dt className="text-sm text-[#faf9f6]/45">{term}</dt>
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<dd className="text-sm font-medium text-[#faf9f6]/90">{value}</dd>
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</div>
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))}
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</dl>
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<p className="mt-5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/50">
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No inflated traction claims. No promise that every search produces
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a winner. The company is being built around honest evidence.
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</p>
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</aside>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section className="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-6 py-20 md:py-28">
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-cyan-300/75">
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The thesis
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</p>
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<blockquote className="mt-6 max-w-5xl text-3xl font-medium leading-tight tracking-tight text-[#faf9f6]/95 md:text-5xl">
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AI coding agents are becoming capable of sustained search against
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objective evaluators. Turning that capability into trusted, deployable
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algorithmic gains can create value across every software-intensive industry.
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</blockquote>
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<div className="mt-16 grid gap-px overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-[#f0eee6]/10 bg-[#f0eee6]/10 md:grid-cols-3">
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{principles.map((principle) => (
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<article key={principle.number} className="bg-[#1f1e1d] p-7 md:p-8">
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<span className="font-mono text-sm text-cyan-300/60">{principle.number}</span>
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<h2 className="mt-5 text-xl font-semibold">{principle.title}</h2>
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<p className="mt-3 leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/65">{principle.body}</p>
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</article>
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))}
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</div>
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</section>
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<section className="border-y border-[#f0eee6]/10 bg-[#faf9f6]/[0.018]">
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<div className="mx-auto grid max-w-6xl gap-12 px-6 py-20 md:py-28 lg:grid-cols-2">
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<div>
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-cyan-300/75">
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Start by building together
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</p>
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<h2 className="mt-5 text-3xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-5xl">
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A focused working trial before a permanent commitment.
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</h2>
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<p className="mt-6 max-w-xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/65">
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A serious candidate can begin part-time. The point is to discover
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whether we make good decisions, handle difficult evidence, and can
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turn technical work into something customers value.
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</p>
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</div>
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<ol className="space-y-4">
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{trialWork.map((item, index) => (
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<li
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key={item}
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className="flex gap-4 rounded-xl border border-[#f0eee6]/10 bg-[#1f1e1d] p-5"
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>
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<span className="font-mono text-sm text-cyan-300/60">0{index + 1}</span>
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<span className="leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/80">{item}</span>
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</li>
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))}
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</ol>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section className="mx-auto grid max-w-6xl gap-12 px-6 py-20 md:py-28 lg:grid-cols-[0.8fr_1.2fr]">
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<div>
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-amber-300/80">
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Working agreement
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</p>
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<h2 className="mt-5 text-3xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
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Build the company as equals.
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</h2>
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</div>
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<div>
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<ul className="grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2">
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{workingAgreement.map((item) => (
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<li
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key={item}
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className="rounded-xl border border-[#f0eee6]/10 bg-[#faf9f6]/[0.025] p-5 leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/75"
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>
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<span className="mr-3 text-emerald-300">✓</span>
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{item}
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</li>
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))}
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</ul>
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<p className="mt-8 text-lg leading-relaxed text-[#faf9f6]/65">
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This is for a technical founder who cares about algorithms, systems,
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optimization, scientific rigor, and enterprise problem-solving—and
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wants to build more than another AI wrapper.
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</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section className="border-t border-[#f0eee6]/10">
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<div className="mx-auto max-w-5xl px-6 py-24 text-center">
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<p className="font-mono text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-cyan-300/75">
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The next conversation
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</p>
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<h2 className="mx-auto mt-5 max-w-3xl text-4xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-6xl">
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Bring a bottleneck, a hard question, or a better plan.
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</h2>
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<div className="mt-9 flex flex-col justify-center gap-3 sm:flex-row">
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<Link
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href="/strategy"
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className="rounded-full bg-cyan-300 px-6 py-3 font-semibold text-[#1f1e1d] hover:bg-cyan-200"
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>
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Inspect the strategy
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</Link>
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<Link
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href="/contribute"
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className="rounded-full border border-[#f0eee6]/15 px-6 py-3 font-medium text-[#faf9f6]/85 hover:border-cyan-300/35 hover:text-cyan-200"
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>
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Build with us
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</Link>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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</main>
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);
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}

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