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How to start a company in the Philippines: SEC, Mayor’s permit, BIR, and the rest
A founder’s guide to registering a company in the Philippines, in the order you will actually do it: your business address, the SEC, the barangay and Mayor’s permit, the BIR, then SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG. Plus when a One Person Corporation makes sense, and what it costs you later.
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A general AI assistant vs a product built with AI: what Batayan adds
You can ask a general AI assistant a legal question for free. So why build Batayan? Because a model is only one part of a product. Here is what the rest does: sources, rules, a review step, and someone accountable for the answer.
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Why we started 3rdLoop Solutions, and why now
Five founders, years of carrying the work in the rat race, and a list of problems we never had the hours to solve. Here is why we started 3rdLoop Solutions, and why we think today is the day to build.
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3C is free for Filipino founders. Here’s what you get.
3C gives Filipino founders a free startup workspace, co-founder matching, and a path into selective accelerator batches. Here is what is inside, who it is for, and why we don’t charge for it.
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Jev and System One models: fast, calibrated decisions, and what they mean for LLMs
TypeSafe AI’s Jev doesn’t write text. It makes typed decisions in milliseconds and reports how sure it is. Here is what that is good for, how we plan to use it in our products, and why it changes the job of the large language model.
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3rdLoop Solutions is now registered with the SEC. Here’s what it means for our products.
We are now a company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines. Here is what that changes for Batayan, ariarian.ai, Habi, 3C, and the teams we build for, and what it doesn’t.
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