Daniel Francis is the solo founder and CEO of Abel Police, an AI platform that generates police reports from body cam footage. How he got here is a story.

He dropped out of high school, taught himself to code at a DC nonprofit, and built a fitness app to $30K MRR before walking away from it. He impersonated a laid-off Twitter employee to get hired by Elon Musk, got fired by him, and came out the other side with a completely different view of what was worth building.

It started with a phone call from a friend escaping domestic violence. Police took 45 minutes to arrive. Not because they didn't care, but because they were drowning in paperwork and understaffed. Daniel dug into the data and found the insight that became the basis for Abel Police: Officers spend one-third of their shift writing reports. If you're already wearing a body cam, that's insane.

He also talks about why solo founders should give more equity to early hires, his "anti-culture culture" of just tickets and deadlines, and the raw reality of building alone: six months of walking to the office, walking home, and randomly crying in the middle of the day.

Solo, together.

Julian