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    <div class="brand"><span class="mk"></span>Unravel</div>
    <div class="meta">The Dispatch · Summer 2026</div>
    <div class="meta"><b>the-dispatch / 001</b><br>summer 2026 · status: shipped</div>
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    <h1>The best AI products aren't the smartest. They're the ones that change safely, every week.</h1>
    <p class="sub">That is what we build: the models, workflows, and infrastructure that let a team ship fast without shipping regressions. Measured outcomes from this quarter's client work in consumer finance, enterprise AI, and consumer media.</p>
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    <h2>In consumer finance</h2>
    <p class="slabel"><span class="n">01 /</span> Consumer finance</p>
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        <h3>+40% click-through, and still climbing in production</h3>
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    <h2>In enterprise AI</h2>
    <p class="slabel"><span class="n">02 /</span> Enterprise AI</p>
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        <h3>AI that surfaces the risks nobody thought to ask about</h3>
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    <h2>In consumer media</h2>
    <p class="slabel"><span class="n">03 /</span> Consumer media</p>
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        <h3>$1–2 cheaper and 30–75 seconds faster on every render</h3>
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    <h2>About Unravel</h2>
    <p class="sec-sub">Unravel is a 20-person team, up from 15 this year, shipping to production every week. Our own products come out of the same AI-first workflows we build for clients.</p>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://steno.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Steno</span><span class="pd">Meeting notes that write themselves, clean and searchable when the call ends.</span><span class="pv">steno.unravel.tech ↗</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://usething.ai"><span class="pn">thing</span><span class="pd">Ship your coding agents' output as live, commentable, versioned pages. This letter runs on it.</span><span class="pv">usething.ai ↗</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://tablo.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Tablo</span><span class="pd">Keeps a human in the loop on your AI coding agents, live from the corner of the screen.</span><span class="pv">tablo.unravel.tech ↗</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://asklight.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Asklight</span><span class="pd">Ctrl+Space, ask anything. AI one keystroke away, with free models and nothing to set up.</span><span class="pv">asklight.unravel.tech ↗</span></a>
    <p class="slabel"><span class="n">04 /</span> About Unravel</p>
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      <div class="fig"><b>~2×</b><span>revenue, quarter over quarter</span></div>
      <div class="fig inkfig"><b>20</b><span>on the team, up from 15 this year</span></div>
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    <p class="sec-sub" style="margin-top:0;">We ship to production every week. Our own products come out of the same AI-first workflows we build for clients.</p>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://steno.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Steno</span><span class="pd">Meeting notes that write themselves, clean and searchable when the call ends.</span><span class="pv">steno.unravel.tech →</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://usething.ai"><span class="pn">thing</span><span class="pd">Ship your coding agents' output as live, commentable, versioned pages. This letter runs on it.</span><span class="pv">usething.ai →</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://tablo.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Tablo</span><span class="pd">Keeps a human in the loop on your AI coding agents, live from the corner of the screen.</span><span class="pv">tablo.unravel.tech →</span></a>
    <a class="prod-row" href="https://asklight.unravel.tech"><span class="pn">Asklight</span><span class="pd">Ctrl+Space, ask anything. AI one keystroke away, with free models and nothing to set up.</span><span class="pv">asklight.unravel.tech →</span></a>
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