Vanguards
Intelligence for the people shaping what comes next.
VANGUARDS is a publication for founders, executives, and investors who need to understand where business and technology are heading, before their industry does. Not trends. Not noise. The signal that moves decisions.
What you’re reading - and why it’s different
Most business media tell you what happened. VANGUARDS tells you what it means and what’s coming next.
The premise is simple: the executives, founders, and investors who win aren’t the ones with the most information. They’re the ones who process it faster, frame it more clearly, and act on it before the consensus forms.
VANGUARDS is built for that window, the gap between when something starts to matter and when everyone agrees it matters. Every briefing, deep-dive, and analysis is written to close that gap for the people reading it.
AI, emerging technology, business strategy, venture, regulatory shifts - not as separate categories, but as a single interconnected landscape that professionals need to navigate as a whole.
Free and paid - here’s what each gets you
Free subscribers receive daily briefings Monday through Friday — sharp, fast analysis of the most consequential developments in business and technology. No filler. The kind of reading you actually finish.
Paid subscribers get the full picture. Unlimited access to exclusive deep dives that go beyond the headline to the structural implications. Monthly podcast conversations with the operators, investors, and technologists actually in the room. The complete archive - every analysis, every topic, on demand. And early access to the work that ends up shaping the conversation.
Both tiers are designed around one idea: your time is finite, and the quality of what you read determines the quality of what you decide.
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About the author
David Nagtzaam has spent 18 years at the intersection of technology, strategy, and execution — working with over 220 brands across every scale, from Google and OpenAI to Fortune 500 enterprises and unicorn startups navigating their most consequential inflection points.
As an Entrepreneur in Residence, he led a startup to top-3 market position with 3,400% revenue growth. As a transformation advisor, he has orchestrated digital overhauls for corporations with 80,000+ employees. He has operated across 28 markets, built SEO strategies that captured 93% of top search positions, and turned multi-million dollar budgets into measurable competitive advantage.
He specialises in AI strategy, cybersecurity, and digital transformation — and has a particular obsession with making the complex actionable and the theoretical profitable. VANGUARDS is where that obsession goes every week.
“David has one of the most broad-based minds I have ever seen.” — M. Smolens, Chairman & Founder, Dotsub
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