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Team Pain Over Company Pain
Solve one team’s real problem, not the C-suite’s abstract one.
How it works
- 1Every large enterprise holds hundreds of similar teams with similar pains.
- 2Land one team and you have a map to the rest.
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Data as the SpecMost operators can’t describe a full app in a prompt.The 5% RuleTeams use about 5% of a typical SaaS tool’s features.Apps Are FilesApps used to be valuable because they were expensive to build.Deterministic Core, Probabilistic EdgesLLMs are great at reading messy data and finding connections.One Patch, Every AppVibe-coded apps are unique, like fingerprints, so each one needs its own security review.The Five-Interview Signal TestInterview five buyers with a research hat on. No selling.Builders and ConsumersIn a company of a few hundred, 10 to 20% start as builders.
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