AI That Could Steal Your Job, $424M for Auckland, a $15K Founder Grant, and a Startup That Faceplanted on the Moon

PLUS: The fintech helping women tackle debt, a $15K grant for female founders, three big startup events this Thursday, and Harry Uffindell on scaling Partly and building culture

Good morning, startup land.

We’re kicking off a new Tuesday tool feature today. With so many new products launching, it’s hard to know what’s worth your time. We’ll be testing them out and giving you a quick rundown of our experience so we hope it helps. Here’s what else is brewing in your daily shot today:

• Deep Research: The AI tool that’s so good it makes me concerned for my job

• GridAKL Marks 10 Years with $424M Boost to Auckland’s Economy

• The Fintech Changing How New Zealand Women Tackle Debt

• Game-Changing Innovation: AI, SaaS, and Female Founders Take the Stage This Thursday

• $15K grant for female tech founders

• Scaling Partly, Building Culture, and Mastering Focus with Harry Uffindell

• Startup Fail? At Least Your Product Didn’t Faceplant on the Moon - Twice

Keep your stories and updates coming. Have a great day.

Lauren & the Caffeine team

---

Deep Research: The AI tool that’s so good it makes me concerned for my job.

There's a new productivity tool promising to cut hours out of your work week released almost every minute and they range from brilliant to baffling, so each week Caffeine will bring you the tools we’re finding truly useful.

Deep Research from OpenAI is one of those tools that’s so good it makes me genuinely concerned for my job. As I wrote for a recent column, it’s OpenAI's most impressive recent product, which is capable of deeply thoughtful, well referenced and detailed analysis of virtually any topic.

I've used it to prepare briefings in minutes on topics that would still take me hours if not a whole day to prepare on my own.

It’s only available on OpenAI’s ‘Plus’ tier and above currently and is limited to 10 queries a month on the lower tier, so you have to make your questions count but with tactical use of that, you can get some impressive results for USD $20 a month.

It’s a wildly impressive product on its own but Chat GPT 5 is on the horizon, which promises to combine all the existing functionality of OpenAI’s products in a more comprehensive suite.

I think getting familiar with how to get the best results out of Deep Research now as a more stand alone service is a wise investment of time and money. It’s the kind of functionality that makes you glimpse a future or either radical productivity or radical redundancy. Let’s do our bit to make sure it’s the former.