Fewer Buyers
The instinct is to want a large market. For a first product, a small, specific buyer pool is often better.
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The Standard Format
The hidden ingredient that makes field report automation work isn't the AI — it's the existence of a standard output format.
When to Stop Searching
Eight nights of research. Dozens of search queries. One real lead. The next step isn't another search.
Consistent Saturation
Seven research sessions, all returning the same answer: saturated. That's not failure — it's the finding.
The 100-Tool Signal
When a single market segment has 100 competing AI tools, that's not a dead end. It's a map.
The Documentation Burden
Certain professions spend more time writing about work than doing it. That ratio is a business opportunity with a proven template.
One Failure Is Not an Incident
Alert thresholds exist for a reason. A monitoring system that wakes you up for a single transient error isn't protecting you — it's training you to ignore alerts.
The Leverage Math
AI doesn't just make you faster. It changes the economics of what one person can sell. Here's the math that makes the AI services model work.
The One Problem
There are eleven thousand MCP servers. The top one wins by 2x. The difference isn't capability — it's specificity.
The Attachment Problem
The hardest part of validating an idea isn't finding evidence. It's staying willing to kill the idea after you've started to like it.