TL;DR
- 5 new Corp Dev & M&A roles this week, plus additional roles on our designated job board at corpdevcareers.com
- Is the LLM race tightening? A review of the numbers
- Tool of the Week: Stitch by Google Labs
- Liam's Take: Skilljar by Anthropic is a good entry point to vibe coding
This is the first edition of my first newsletter. I want the content to be interesting for all, not just corporate development employees. If you have any feedback, please email me through the contact tab of my website: corpdevcareers.com/contact
A note for transparency — I'm using AI for elements of the production, but I'm going to focus on maximizing my personal involvement in the content. Any section labelled explicitly as my own take, editor's note, bottom line, etc. is brainstormed and written by me. In other areas, I'm using AI for research, compilation, and some writing, but always in a complementary manner. Consider this an AI-assisted approach.
This Week's Roles
This week's hand-picked roles across Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, and Buyside M&A:
M&A Associate
Banyan Software
More senior seat within Banyan's acquisition team, leading diligence and transaction execution across global software deals in a high-volume serial acquirer environment.
Manager, Corporate Development (M&A)
Enghouse Systems
Partner with senior leadership on acquisition strategy and execution across an active software roll-up platform.
M&A Corporate Development Manager
Volaris Group
Join one of the most active global acquirers executing high-volume vertical software transactions.
Director, Strategy and Corporate Development
George Weston Limited
Senior corporate development seat spanning strategy, capital allocation, and M&A work at one of Canada's most established public-company platforms.
Senior Manager, Corporate Development
Fullscript
Core execution role on Fullscript's M&A and strategic growth initiatives.
User Trends in the AI Race
Is the AI Chatbot Race Actually Tightening?
If you've been on tech Twitter or LinkedIn (or even Instagram) lately, it feels like everyone is switching to Claude. But what do the actual numbers say?
ChatGPT still dominates on raw scale. OpenAI reported 900 million weekly active users as of February 2026, more than double the 400 million reported a year earlier. The platform processes over 2 billion daily queries and commands roughly 60% of U.S. generative AI market share.
Claude's numbers are far smaller in absolute terms — roughly 18.9 million monthly active users on the web, but the growth trajectory is where it gets interesting. Similarweb reported that Claude's daily active users jumped over 180% since the start of the year, hitting 11.3 million by early March. In late February, Claude was averaging 149,000 daily app downloads in the U.S. versus ChatGPT's 124,000 — the first time it consistently outpaced ChatGPT in that metric. Claude is currently the top-ranked free app in 15 countries including the U.K., Canada, and France.
The enterprise story is even more telling. Anthropic says Claude now serves over 300,000 business customers, with enterprise accounting for roughly 80% of revenue. Claude's enterprise AI assistant market share climbed from 18% to 29% year-over-year. And according to Ramp data, about 79% of OpenAI users also pay for Anthropic, suggesting Claude isn't replacing ChatGPT so much as becoming the second tool every serious team needs.
Revenue reflects the momentum: Anthropic hit $14 billion in annualized revenue in February 2026, up from $1 billion just 13 months earlier, making it one of the fastest revenue ramps in tech history. Claude Code alone accounts for an estimated $2.5 billion of that.
Why This Matters for M&A Professionals
These statistics signal where enterprise AI workflows are heading. If your Corp Dev team is evaluating AI tools for deal screening, diligence, or research, the market is clearly moving toward a multi-model approach. The firms that default to one platform without testing alternatives are likely leaving capability on the table.
Sources: DemandSage (Mar 2026); AndroidHeadlines (Mar 2026); SQ Magazine; AI Funding Tracker (Feb 2026); Similarweb
Editor's Note
From an anecdotal perspective, it seems like users are opening up to the idea that LLM can mean more than just ChatGPT. In the past couple months, my feed has been inundated with content comparing Claude to ChatGPT to Gemini. What's becoming abundantly clear is that different tools excel at different tasks. Claude has become my de facto research and programming tool, while I rely on Google more for front end design and visual 'taste'. Using only one is often insufficient to stay on top of the game when you have diverse requirements.
Tool of the Week — Stitch by Google Labs
This past month, Google unveiled a major upgrade to its previously uninspiring front-end AI design tool, Stitch.
My experiences with design tools to date have generally been frustrating and time consuming ordeals. At times it has felt like these tools could not have produced a worse result if they had tried — remember Will Smith eating spaghetti?
But Stitch genuinely is starting to feel like it has taste of its own (sounds kind of scary when put that way). It's a free AI design tool from Google Labs that turns plain-English prompts into high-fidelity app and website interfaces with production-ready code. Describe what you want — "a dashboard showing deal pipeline by sector with filtering" — and it generates complete, polished UI screens that don't feel like complete junk.
The March 2026 update made it significantly more powerful: it now generates up to five interconnected screens at once, supports voice commands for real-time iteration, and exports clean code in HTML/CSS, Tailwind, React, and five other frameworks. There's also one-click export to Figma and integration with Claude Code via its MCP server (which I am using extensively).
It's completely free — 350 generations per month, no credit card. Figma's stock dropped 4% the day it launched.
Editor's Note
If you find you're going down a path of overcorrection — not just with Stitch, but with any LLM, it's often better to take what you've learned, clear history, and start fresh rather than subtly tweaking until you get what you want. Starting fresh gives your prompt a clean signal, while iterative tweaks tend to stack, complicating the procedure and resulting in cluttered noise. It's often why LLMs run astray from the true goal.
Anthropic's Free Courses — Skilljar
Anthropic is offering free, accredited courses on their Skilljar site — ranging from the basics of using Claude to setting up MCP and agentic workflows.
I personally found the Claude Code in Action course to be extremely beneficial. As someone with minimal programming experience, I'm finding myself spending more and more of my day automating and genuinely improving my efficiency with Vibe Coding.
Even just having a basis of understanding of what tools you need to install can be a powerful first step. When you complete a course, Anthropic gives you a certificate of completion — could be a useful way to differentiate yourself, but the main value comes from unlocking a better understanding of these tools.
I'm using Claude Code within VS Code, but I've also received a lot of positive feedback on Cursor, and there's something to be said for Cursor's human-led approach.
Thank You
If you've made it this far, genuinely thank you for the support — it means a lot. Consider sharing with your network, or providing feedback here: corpdevcareers.com/contact
I'd like to know what elements you liked, didn't like, and what you would like to see in future editions. I'm aiming to post every Thursday.
— Liam