AI is making us faster and more dependent at the same time. Ruben Molenaars thinks that tradeoff is a problem worth building a company around.

In episode one of StartingUP, we sit down with Ruben, founder of Mindr-AI, to talk about the AI layer he's building to keep people thinking for themselves. His starting point is simple: let AI work for you, but never let it think for you. From there we get into the research on cognitive dependency and why so many corporate AI projects quietly stall. Then what it actually takes to build a company that runs against where the whole industry is heading.

No polished founder story, no gatekeeping. Just how one founder saw a problem early and decided to do something about it.

▶ About Mindr-AI

A Socratic AI platform that sits on top of your existing AI stack. When you're thinking well, it  ...