Yacht charter
No-code AI builders still fail the website test
A charter broker benchmarks AI builders against website builders. One intake flow needs three vendors, which is the whole answer.
For AI founders, product and GTM leaders
Product requests
Standalone asks pulled from the interviews. Each one names who asked and what they run.
Health & wellness
Nobody sells the layer between a set of AI skills and a working product
Dr. Nikki Siso built a fifteen-skill AI assessment in Claude, then had to hire a developer. The gap is deployment, not intelligence.
Restaurants
What Dr. Nikki Siso wants AI companies to build for restaurants
Dr. Nikki Siso named four AI products she wants built for restaurants: menu compatibility, permitting, print-ready labels and recipe costing.
Restaurants
The button nobody built: make this print ready
An operator's product request in one line. AI answered the label question she asked and never told her the file needed bleed to reach a printer.
Hospitality
How Sofiane Ghorbel would use VR to start the relationship earlier
A luxury hospitality CEO wants clients to meet their concierge in a headset before booking. Every VR travel product ships the room without the person.
M&A advisory
Inside the deal room an M&A broker duct-taped together
Christine McDannell takes five deals at a time and reports a seven-month close on infrastructure she assembled herself. What she wants built instead.
M&A advisory
Why the operators furthest ahead ask for nothing
Asked what AI companies should build, an M&A broker running her firm on AI said she could not think of anything. Three requests came out sideways.
Public relations
Why AI privacy is a must-have for PR agencies under NDA
Sam Polstein works under NDA with defense tech clients. Five conditions have to hold before an agency can put that material into any model.
Yacht charter
Two back-end products yacht charter brokers keep asking for
Asked what one AI tool would change her job, Jennifer Kerum chose the back end: client memory deep enough to recall a wine, and a private boat database.
Construction
Ten requirements a legacy operator has before they will buy AI
Eight requirements from Annija Eizenarma, two from Artificial Reality: narrow scope, plain language, minimal onboarding, and one delivered result.
Retail & events
Two tools, one job: the integration both owners asked for
Generation in one tab, layout in another, a copy-paste in between. Both owners of an NYC shop independently asked for the same seam to close.
Retail & events
Counting the sugar: the inventory tool a food business wants
Luisa Ramirez wants something that walks in and counts precisely — scan the shelf or weigh it. Without exact counts, she can't price a plate properly.
The Builder Brief
What your buyers say they would pay for
Product gaps in operators own words, straight from the interviews.
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