VP of Nothing: The CEO's Nephew Took Over My AI Platform. The Client Walked Within a Month.

This is a war story, not a tool. A practitioner recounts building an AI platform for a client, then watching it get handed to someone with title but no context, and the client relationship evaporating shortly after. It is the kind of essay that gets shared between engineers who have lived a version of it. The value is not technical — there are no benchmarks, no integrations, no pricing tiers. The value is pattern recognition: what the organizational warning signs looked like before the handoff, and what the author would have done differently. Builders who are shipping AI work inside enterprises rather than selling a standalone SaaS product will find it more relevant than solo founders. The reservation is obvious: it is a blog post, not a product. It earns a brief because the scenario it describes — political capture of an AI project — is common enough that the audience may want the framing language it provides. -> Best for: technical PM or AI engineer embedded in a client engagement