14.ai Dispatch #17

Password resets in 15 BC???

Michael Fester, Marie Schneegans, Maya Czeneszew, and 2 others

Sep 28, 2025

MCP servers, Monopoly with crypto bros, and YC founders laying on yoga mats in SoMa.

How long would you wait on hold?

You know the feeling.

You’re desperate to fix something. You call support.

Then it begins.

The hold music. A four-bar classical loop that slowly eats your soul.

Ask yourself: how long would you wait?

Event recap: AI agents for fintech night

Crypto, Monopoly, and pita bread. That’s a first.

Between rounds of Monopoly Deal and debating how to stop your AI agent from “accidentally” wiring $5M, we finally landed on the real topic: building reliable fintech + crypto agents.

Thanks to everyone who showed up and kept the competition unhinged at the table and in the code.

Founders & Engineers’ Typing Competition at #SFTechWeek

Think you’ve got the fastest fingers in the Bay?

Join us at the 14.ai HQ for a casual but EXTREMELY SERIOUS typing showdown as part of the 2025 SF Tech Week.

Startup leaders and engineers put speed, accuracy, and stamina to the test. Bragging rights are on the line.

Connect with fellow techie and prove your keyboard game is as sharp as your pitch.

RSVP here.

Building MCPs you can trust

“Security” usually means someone bought Okta and called it a day.

Not here. Wojciech Błaszak (Golf, YC X25) pulled up and reminded us that MCP servers in production need:

Audit trails (aka receipts for when your intern breaks prod)
Proper auth (no, “password123” doesn’t count)
Prompt-injection defense (because users are gremlins)

Big thanks, Wojciech!

📄 Full recap here.

Next week’s workshop: Building knowledge bases that grow with your product

As your product evolves, your knowledge base has to keep up. Join us for a live discussion with Nivedha Venkatesh (CEO @ Pageloop), on what it takes to scale AI knowledge bases beyond the basics. We’ll explore how fast-moving teams can balance speed with accuracy, handle multi-product complexity, and design knowledge layers that evolve instead of break.