

EP7: SaaS Mondays, Live on Fridays | The Spine AI Story with Ashwin Raman
Join us for a special “Notes from a Founder” edition of SaaS Mondays, Live on Fridays featuring Ashwin Raman, Co-founder and CTO of Spine AI—the world’s first iterative deep research platform, built for speed, scale, and substance.
Spine AI isn’t your average AI tool. Designed to keep humans in control while supercharging the research process, it searches 3x more sources and delivers results 5x faster than ChatGPT Deep Research. With a full-text editor and built-in guidance workflows, Spine AI empowers analysts, strategists, and knowledge workers to go deeper and deliver insights that matter.
In this session, Ashwin will walk us through the journey from idea to public launch.
Whether you're a founder, product leader, or engineer thinking about launching your own SaaS, this episode will offer real-world insights into what it takes to build, launch, and differentiate in the age of AI.
Key Topics:
- The vision behind Spine AI and how it's redefining AI-assisted research
- Lessons from launching Spine AI in public just days ago
- The technical architecture behind fast, iterative research
- Building in a crowded AI market: differentiation, speed, and control
- What’s next on the Spine AI roadmap