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Join us for our next live workshop: Building a Fundable Product & How to Raise Capital Partnered with Fundex, we'll explore what founders should be thinking about on both sides of building a fundable company: creating a product that's ready for customers and growth, and understanding how to approach raising capital. During the session we'll cover: ☑️How to assess whether your product is ready for the market you're entering ☑️ The product and technical foundations that support a viable business ☑️ How to think about scalability before growth puts pressure on your product ☑️Where to prioritize investment across Product, UX/UI, Technical Foundations, and GTM ☑️ And with Fundex, what founders should know as they prepare to raise capital Whether you're building your first product, starting to gain traction, or thinking about your next stage of growth, you'll leave with practical questions and frameworks you can apply to your own business. 📆 Sep 22nd | 12:00 PM ET 👉 Register here:

Founders make decisions based on signals every day. A user says they love the idea, growth starts picking up, or a customer pushes back on price. But how do you know which signals are actually telling you something? We put together The Signal Report to understand how founders are reading and responding to those signals across three areas: ✅ How they validate real demand before building ✅ What makes them rethink their GTM approach ✅ Which metrics they use to measure growth ✅ How they decide what their product is worth ✅ Where AI is changing the value equation It’s meant to uncover how founders are actually making these decisions in 2026, including the moments when the signals they trusted turned out to be wrong. The survey takes about 3 minutes, and we’ll turn the responses into a report with aggregated insights and patterns from founders across different stages. Take The Signal Report survey:

Most SaaS founders are building some form of competitive advantage. The harder question is whether those advantages are actually working together. Technical architecture, proprietary data, customer retention, and distribution can all make a company harder to compete with. But investing in each one independently doesn't automatically create a moat. The strongest defensibility comes when those advantages start reinforcing each other. In this recent DesignRush feature on our 2026 Moat Report, we explore: ☑️ Why no single moat is enough on its own ☑️ Where SaaS founders are investing to become harder to copy ☑️ Why shipping faster doesn't necessarily make a product more defensible ☑️ How technical, data, distribution, and retention advantages can compound over time The goal isn't to protect everything. It's to identify the advantage your business can make stronger as it grows. Read the full article:

“Designli was extremely proactive, responsive, and open to feedback.” Really appreciate this review from Anshuman Yadav, Founder & CEO of StratiqAI. He came to us looking for a clickable prototype and technical roadmap he could confidently use to validate his product with customers and build investor confidence. Giving founders that kind of clarity and something tangible they can actually move forward with is exactly what SolutionLab is built for. 🙌

Shipping faster can help you stay ahead. But speed alone won't give competitors a reason to stay behind. 71.4% of founders we surveyed are continuously releasing new products or features to widen their technical moat. At the same time, not a single founder rated their core technology as fully defensible if a well-funded competitor tried to copy it. That's the difference between moving fast and building an advantage that compounds. In his latest article for TechBehemoths, our CEO Keith Shields explores what SaaS founders are actually building to stay competitive in 2026, from technical and data moats to distribution and retention, and why trying to strengthen every advantage at once may not be the best strategy. The goal isn't to defend everything. It's to understand where you have an advantage and build deliberately around the moat you can make strongest. Read the full article:

A week in San Francisco is a good reminder of just how much founders can learn when the right people are in the same room. Last week, our team spent time with founders, builders, investors, and partners across the Bay Area, talking about founder-led GTM, building beyond the first version of a product, and what it takes to keep learning and adapting as a company grows. A big thank you to Startup Grind, Founder Institute, Step SF, Founders Network, and Founder Social Club for bringing these communities together and giving us the opportunity to be part of the conversations happening across the SF startup ecosystem. And a special shoutout to Carlos Sanabria and Mara Linares for representing Designli throughout the week! We came home with some great conversations, new connections, and plenty to keep thinking about. See you again soon, SF!

Our CEO Keith Shields just published a new piece on Founder's Edge: Your tech partner is the first moat decision you'll make. The core idea: code isn't the advantage anymore. AI has made shipping features fast and easy for everyone. What's actually defensible is judgment, the decisions a tech partner helps you make about data, service, retention, and distribution from day one. A few numbers from our MOAT Report that stood out: over half of founders have less than 12 months of proprietary data built up, one in five aren't running exit interviews to understand churn, and 86% are already being shaped by how AI tools like ChatGPT find and cite them, whether they've planned for it or not. Swipe through for the breakdown, and read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/dmrWVx6Z 👇

We're proud to share that Designli has been named a Summer 2026 Clutch Global Winner in Swift and React Native development. This puts us among the top-performing agencies out of over 400,000 service providers on the platform. Recognition like this reflects the clients who trusted us with their products and took the time to share their experience. That trust is what actually moves the needle. Thank you to our team and our clients for making this possible.

"Designli's Impact Week gave us a thorough technical audit of our SaaS platform with actionable recommendations. The team was professional and delivered on time. Definitely recommend!" This is exactly what Impact Week is built for: a clear, honest look under the hood of your product and a real plan for what to fix, all in one week. Thank you to our client for the kind words! 🙌