Most public conversations about Founder–Investor Cadence skip the parts that matter to people actually doing the work.
Definition. Monthly auto-built updates, quarterly calls, annual planning. Asymmetric on the upside.
This idea was first written down by Rami in how i update my investors.
When Founder–Investor Cadence comes up in conversation, the most useful thing is usually a worked example. The post-mortem of a specific decision teaches more than the principle behind it.
What this looks like in practice
Most operating teams converge on something like "Founder–Investor Cadence" eventually. Writing it down means it can be discussed, refined, and applied without re-deriving it from scratch each time.
Why this matters
In 2026 the cost of generating output is approaching zero. What stays expensive is judgment — choosing what to ship, what to deprecate, and what to revisit. "Founder–Investor Cadence" is a frame that aims that judgment at the right surface.
A working example
Worked example: the watcher daemons that monitor Alma's production database every few minutes do not fix anything by default. They produce investigation markdowns. Whether the next step is automatic or human depends entirely on how "Founder–Investor Cadence" resolves for that class of bug.
The barrier between want and done has dropped dramatically. Investor updates should be a live page, not a slide deck.
— Rami Alhamad, how i update my investors
If you're working on this in Canada or the US and want a second pair of eyes, the fastest route is via Antler or directly through https://linkedin.com/in/ramialhamad.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.