Cyril Codron

The European Accessibility Act has been law since June 2025. Most enterprise compliance teams are still treating it like a planning item. Here's what's actually happening right now: Germany — private actors already sending warning letters. Fines up to €100K. France — formal demand filed against four major grocery retailers last month. Netherlands — the regulator announced companies with incomplete accessibility reports are first in line for spring audits. Italy — penalties up to 5% of annual turnover. Ireland — criminal sanctions on the table for repeat violations. I've spent 15 years in digital accessibility. The GDPR rollout looked exactly like this: quiet for months, then very loud very fast. Enforcement doesn't start with the worst offenders. It starts with the most visible ones. If your brand is recognizable and your digital experience is inaccessible, you don't need to be the worst in the room. You just need to be convenient. I keep talking to teams who have EAA on their radar but not on their roadmap. That gap is going to cost someone this year. #DigitalAccessibility #EAA #a11y

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France async-first teams: write memos, reduce meetings An async-first approach can reshape how French teams write, decide, and meet — reducing meeting load while improving clarity, accountability, and employee wellbeing....

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HeroUI (YC S24) enables developers to generate React applications from text prompts, requiring instant code execution and preview environments. HeroUI deployed Together Code Sandbox for their preview infrastructure — reducing cold-start times from 2 minutes to 2 seconds and accelerating their go-to-market from 5 months to 2 weeks. The managed platform handles all code execution without browser limitations. "With Together Code Sandbox, we had an MVP running in a couple of hours instead of waiting months to see results," says CEO Junior Garcia.

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For the last 3 weeks, I talked a lot with tech companies' founders and saw a lot of this sad pattern: teams ship “a lot” — but the business doesn't reliably know what changed and what real impact it had. Better with visible features — and mostly unclear with internal work. It's like you're a restaurant owner and a chef, but you can reliably explain what 2 of the 10 cooks do. You have a unique understanding of customers and cuisine, and you are the one spending money. Over the last few months, I wrote a few long pieces to clarify why this happens and how to fix it (for founders/CEOs and for CTOs). If you want a structured entry point, here’s a map: 1) If you feel “Big Tech practices” don’t work for your company → Why copying the rituals without the context creates slow/expensive delivery 2) If there’s tension between business and engineering → why engineering gets disconnected from how the business earns (and what to do instead) 3) If you want a practical model for “what to focus on as a CTO” → a simple classification of business assets that reshapes priorities, org design, and metrics — especially useful if you work not in a regular tech, but a tech-enabled company 4) If you want to measure the real impact of technology → The effect of technology on any business: quality, advantage, and risk-reduction I’ll drop the links in the first comment. I'm preparing a new batch of writings and would love to include more challenges in them. What’s your biggest frustration with tech right now: speed, predictability, or outcomes?

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Making the wrong product decision costs companies millions. But what if you could test before you invest? Most companies launch products with significant blind spots: ❌ Guessing which features customers actually want ❌ Waiting weeks for survey results that arrive after the window has closed ❌ Spending big on campaigns without real validation ❌ Entering new markets based on assumptions, not evidence Then reality hits. The product doesn't sell. The campaign falls flat. Months wasted. 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. Global media groups like News UK, telecoms companies, and streaming providers are using us to: → Test marketing copy and campaigns in seconds, not weeks → Validate product ideas before committing resources → Simulate customer reactions with survey-level accuracy → Avoid expensive failures in new markets → Compress product development timelines dramatically One streaming provider tested a £500k decision in under 30 seconds. A telecom leader now accelerates every product launch with this approach. Our methodology is backed by academic research with the London School of Economics - our platform delivers 96% accuracy and has been tested across 40,000+ evaluations in 155 countries. This is how the fastest-moving companies are making decisions now.  They test first and then invest.

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