Christopher Burns / @burnedchris

Founder building compliance infrastructure for teams that ship fast.

I'm building Inth, the AI-native compliance team, and c15t, an open-source compliance SDK with 2.7M downloads.

Latest writing

Notes from building companies, developer tools, and compliance infrastructure.

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Presentations are products: a Next.js approach to slide decks

How I built a Next.js presentation system for pitch decks, product demos, and sales narratives that behave like real software.

Every Startup Needs a Jared

Why early startups need a steady operator with Jared-from-Silicon-Valley energy, and how my co-founder at Everfund showed me the value of having one.

The Year Everything Caught Up With Me: 29 Lessons That Stuck

Twenty-nine hard-won lessons on resilience, startups, relationships, and rebuilding after a brutal founder year.

No Cookies, No Consent Banners? Not Quite.

Lessons from building consent infrastructure after third-party cookies: GDPR, ePrivacy, user trust, and privacy-first design.

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