Health & wellness
The wearable industry has the sensors and none of the psychology
HRV detection is solved. Knowing what to say to this particular person is not. The personalization layer a health practitioner wants built.
For AI founders, product and GTM leaders
What needs to be built
The product an operator would buy, described in their own words, with the workflow it would replace.
Restaurants
The diners who stopped eating out are the wedge for menu AI
Diners who quit restaurants are the most underserved group in food service. Why menu compatibility AI stalls, and which restaurants unlock it.
Construction
The number no AI drawing tool will publish
Construction AI markets generation speed. Nobody reports how much output survives engineer review unchanged, and that is the figure buyers need.
M&A advisory
What an end-to-end social media agent is, and why none exists yet
The definition, eight requirements from an M&A broker who prompts every step by hand, and why horizontal social tools miss her buyer profile entirely.
Public relations
What client-aware news intelligence is, and why nobody has built it
Monitoring platforms know the news, not your clients. The comms product request Sam Polstein described, the nine requirements, and the gap for builders.
Yacht charter
Retrieval is solved. Capture is the product nobody built
Every AI knowledge product assumes the knowledge is already written down. In expert businesses it exists as an impression, and then it is gone.
Health & wellness
AI agent testing tools all assume you have a developer
Coval, Hamming AI, Cekura, Maxim AI and LangWatch are built for engineers. The operator who needed testing most improvised it with a prompt.
Construction
Nobody built data readiness for the owner who isn't selling
Transaction-readiness banks on one side, developer data tools on the other, and nothing between them for a non-technical owner who is not selling.
Yacht charter
For client memory, the gap is capture, not storage
Any CRM could store a family's wine. None can learn it, because a crew generates it on a boat. Four of six Season 1 operators asked for this.
Restaurants
Four permitting startups, and the half none of them solve
PermitFlow, GreenLite, Pulley and Symbium automate filing. One restaurant operator lost $30,000 to the step before filing, and nobody sells it.
Hospitality
Why a Paris terrace is a bad recommendation in the rain
Three AI platforms personalise recommendations for hotel guests. None reads the weather or the street, which a luxury operator says a suggestion needs.
Construction
In construction procurement, coverage is the product
Four funded procurement platforms, one unsolved constraint: the vendors who must respond bought nothing. What that caps, and the asset nobody sells.
The Builder Brief
What your buyers say they would pay for
Product gaps in operators own words, straight from the interviews.
You are joining the builder brief. Running a business instead? Compare both briefs.