Notion just opened the hood

gm legends, happy Thursday.

The Pitch by Deel is in Dubai today — the final city stop before the Global Finale where 10 founders compete for $1M, vote for your favorites on the leaderboard now. Also: Ivan Zhao just turned Notion from a tool into a developer platform; Toloka's Olga Megorskaya started as a data labeler and is now betting human expertise is the missing piece in every AI stack; and Vercel Day is tomorrow.

Notion Developer Platform lets developers write and run custom code directly inside Notion — Ivan Zhao's move to open Notion's block and database structure to external developers and agents for the first time. P.S. The footer has a surprise if you hit the space key. H/T to Zac Zuo for the spot.

🔥 Our Take: Notion's block model was built for humans who like organizing things. It turns out that typed, queryable, relational blocks are also exactly what AI agents need — not a wall of text, but structured data with clear relationships. Ivan Zhao didn't design Notion for agents, but 11 years of that architecture decision means the surface area is already there. The developer platform is how he cashes in on it.

The Pitch by Deel is in Dubai today — the final regional stop before the Global Finale on May 18–19, where the top 10 founders across all cities compete for $1M. Regional winners take home a $50,000 SAFE.

Vote the best founders on the leaderboard now.

Tendem is from Toloka — built by Olga Megorskaya, who started as a data labeler at Yandex in 2014, watched firsthand how much human judgment AI training actually required, and spent the next decade building Toloka into a network of 200K+ verified experts across 50+ domains — and it pairs AI agents with those human experts for work where getting it wrong matters.

🔥 Our Take: Every agent demo shows it working perfectly. Production is where it meets domains it wasn't trained for, ambiguous instructions, and edge cases that require judgment. Toloka's thesis — that the answer is a human expert on call, not a better model — is a direct counter to the full-automation narrative, and Olga has 12 years of evidence behind it. This isn't a pivot. It's a company that has been right about human-in-the-loop longer than most AI companies have existed.

Vercel Day is tomorrow, May 15. If you have something ready to ship, there's still time to get your launch scheduled and land on the official leaderboard.

Top launches on Product Hunt this Friday are automatically entered. Prizes go to the top finishers. Get it on the board.