Restaurants
Nobody builds costing software for a two-person restaurant
Recipe costing is a solved problem that one Austin founder still could not buy. What the missing tier below the subscription stack needs to do.
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.
Hospitality
Why luxury travel advisors call the concierge and never the client
Follow-up in luxury travel means calling every supplier on a live itinerary, never the traveller. Sofiane Ghorbel says no tool does it, and why.
Health & wellness
What a multi-agent deployment platform is, and why nobody has shipped one
Ten requirements from an operator who built fifteen coordinated Claude skills with no technical background and still had to hire a developer to ship.
M&A advisory
The M&A infrastructure Christine McDannell built for herself
Christine McDannell assembled most of a sell-side M&A operating system alone, on a $100 subscription. She thinks it should be a product. Should it?
Public relations
The journalist tool Sam Polstein wants argues back
Sam Polstein wants a tool that answers a plain question about a named reporter and disagrees with him. A three-week data lag is why nothing qualifies.
Hospitality
Sofiane Ghorbel wants guests, not platforms, to own the preference profile
Sofiane Ghorbel's first ask for luxury hospitality is client-controlled guest profiles. His argument is data quality, not ethics — and the order matters.
Yacht charter
Jennifer Kerum is building the intake tool nobody sold her
Around 80% of charter clients cannot say what they want. Jennifer Kerum is building the vibe-based intake tool nobody sold her, one loop at a time.
M&A advisory
AI left this M&A broker too much in the loop
Voice latency, piecemeal marketing and five parallel tasks: three places AI handed the last step back to M&A broker Christine McDannell.
Hospitality
What Sofiane Ghorbel's team does after a client lands in Rome
Luxury trip follow-up runs on phone calls to every supplier. Sofiane Ghorbel: it takes a lot of time, it creates loyalty, and no tool exists.
Yacht charter
Five hundred loops from an operator to the product she needs
Jennifer Kerum is trying to build her own charter platform. The tooling is still five hundred loops away, and intake is what she would automate first.
Health & wellness
Claude wrote the specification. A human still had to deploy it
A health practitioner built fifteen AI skills and could only fix the skills. The gap between a machine-written spec and a running system is the product.
Restaurants
Four products a first-time restaurant owner would have paid for
A pre-inspection spec sheet, print-ready design, recipe costing, budgeting. Dr. Nikki Siso named four gaps while opening for $85,000.
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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