The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: What Nashville told us about founders, artificial intelligence
By Simran Nath Launch Tennessee’s 3686 conference took over Nashville’s Germantown just a few weeks ago in September. Founders, investors, and operators from across the Southeast packed Brooklyn Bowl for three days of panels, pitches, and hallway conversations. We spent September 15 on the second floor running The Vault, our activation. It stayed busy all […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced — Device Management: The One System Most Startups Build Last (and Regret It)
August 2026 Tech Check: Device management: the one system most startups build last (and regret It) By Simran Nath – Interlaced Marketing Manager Somewhere in your company right now, an employee is working on a laptop nobody’s tracking. Maybe it’s a contractor who never got offboarded. Maybe it’s the sales rep who left six months […]
The Tech Check: What actually happens to your data when you use AI tools
By Interlaced Your team is using AI. You know it, even if you can’t see it. ChatGPT for writing. Claude for research. Gemini in the inbox. Notion AI summarizing meeting notes. A Slack integration someone added last Tuesday. Here’s the question most founders never ask: Where does all of that data actually go? Not in […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: Offboarding doesn’t end when the laptop comes back
Someone leaves your startup. You disable their email, collect the laptop, send the goodbye message. Done, right? Not quite. The laptop coming back is the visible part of offboarding. The risk lives in everything you can’t see. Let’s run a quick tech check. Are You Closing the Accounts That Aren’t on Any List? Disabling someone’s […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: IT support for distributed teams that actually scales
Your startup just crossed 30, 40, maybe 50 people. Half your team is remote. Time zones are all over the place. And somewhere in a Slack thread, an employee is still waiting on a password reset from yesterday. Sound familiar? IT support for distributed teams is one of those things startups ignore until it breaks. […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: IT onboarding + offboarding is the operational lever you’re overlooking
When a new hire shows up on day one without a laptop, or a former employee still has access to your customer database three months after leaving — that’s not just an inconvenience. It’s a security risk, an ops bottleneck, and a drag on growth that compounds quietly … until it doesn’t. At Interlaced, we […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: Is your IT asset management built for scale?
Startups move fast. New hires join. Laptops ship out. SaaS tools get added “just for now.” And suddenly… your IT environment looks less like a system and more like a guessing game. If you’re scaling, IT Asset Management (ITAM) isn’t just an ops detail — it’s directly tied to your security, budget, and employee experience. […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: bad tech habits every startup needs to break in 2026
Identifying and eliminating bad tech habits is the first step toward building a resilient, scalable company. At Interlaced, we’ve seen firsthand how “minor” technical shortcuts taken in the early stages often evolve into major operational bottlenecks for HR, Operations, and Finance leaders. Whether your team is hybrid here in Nashville or fully remote across the […]
The Tech Check, Powered by Interlaced — CISA Just Flagged a New Windows Vulnerability
Tech Check: CISA Just Flagged a New Windows Vulnerability — Here’s What Founders Need to Do (Like… Today) By Interlaced The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just added a new Windows privilege-escalation vulnerability to its Known Exploited list — which means attackers are already playing with it in the wild. If your calendar looks […]
The Tech Check, powered by Interlaced: The Real Startup IT Nightmares (and How to Prevent Them)
By Faviana Garcia Every October, we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month — but for many startups, IT horror stories don’t end when the month does. From ransomware to recurring system failures, the biggest threats to your business aren’t fictional monsters — they’re digital ones. In this Tech Check, we’re breaking down the four most common IT […]