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The free AI Pathfinder program could help you launch your own startup
Startup Daily profiles the fifth AI Pathfinder cohort as a practical route for industry experts, not just technologists, to launch AI startups.
By Startup Daily ยท First published by Startup Daily. Summarised here by SMEC AI.
In brief
Startup Daily published a profile on 15 September 2026 of SMEC AI's fifth AI Pathfinder cohort. The piece frames the free program as a practical route into a startup for people who know an industry, not only for people who already write software. SMEC AI agrees with that framing. The program asks founders to start from a problem they have seen at work, then learn enough to shape an AI product around it. It is not a coding bootcamp and it is not a promise of funding.
Original byline: Startup Daily.