Alistair Croll

We launched a new platform called Envoi at Startupfest 2026.

In 2025, I gave a talk called A Million Tiny Horses at Startupfest with a pretty grim conclusion: SaaS as we know it has a 24-month shelf life.

Full disclosure: I've been working on an app for a few months, and will be launching it May 5.

My mom asked me for a favour.

Each year at Startupfest, I try to frame the current state of the startup world. 2025 was a year of huge change: agentic AI was forever changing the economics of new ventures.

In software development, a fallback is a catch-all, a way to resort to a less-good-but-still-works way of doing things.

TL;DR: Countries should start making sure their populations can survive for three days with no digital systems.

Had a chat with Aaron Meyers on the CX Podcast from Ishmael Interactive about subversive thinking and public sector modernization.

I'm building a complex product that includes AI agents.

Challenger Cities EP71: Welcome to Your Agentic City with Alistair Croll Listen now | Government was built before citizens had a terminal.

Most of the time I feel like an impostor.

If I treat my current car badly—not taking it in for maintenance, ignoring the user manual, driving it off-road a lot—then the next car I buy won’t judge me for doing so.

Before I get started: You probably haven’t heard from me in a while.

A talk with Product Heroes, the Italian Product Management conference/podcast, on why 90% of products will fail even with AI.

Bill Bisson has been waiting ten months for the CRA to get back to him about an error, while over $3,000 in fines have piled up.