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    <description>What we're thinking, what we're learning, and what we're building at cohort26 — the payroll layer for Indian SMBs.</description>
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      <category>Vision</category>
      <description><![CDATA[India has 63 million small businesses. Almost none of them have payroll that works. Here's what we're building, why we think it matters, and why now.]]></description>
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      <title>14 days, one pivot, and a free tool we didn't plan to build</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A raw commit-by-commit account of everything we shipped from April 12 to April 26 — the bugs, the wrong bets, and what changed when we discovered CAs don't do payroll.]]></description>
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      <title>We thought CAs were our customer. We were wrong.</title>
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      <category>Distribution</category>
      <description><![CDATA[We built a payroll tool and spent a week pitching CAs. Nobody was interested. Here's what we learned about who actually processes payroll in Indian SMBs — and why it changes everything about how we go to market.]]></description>
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