MVP & Experimentation~20 min
Concierge MVP: Be the Product
You want to build an AI tool that turns messy client feedback into prioritized product roadmaps. The models are tricky, the pipeline is months of work.
Instead, you email six product managers: "Forward me your raw feedback dump every Friday. Monday morning you get a prioritized roadmap back. $200/month." Four say yes.
Every weekend you do it by hand — spreadsheets, coffee, swearing. By week three you notice something: all four PMs ignore your beautiful prioritization scores. They skip straight to one section — 'what changed since last week' — and forward THAT to their boss.
What's the most valuable thing this manual grind produced?