Tuesday morning is the benchmark
Operators open your tool between Slack fires and a half-broken deploy. Defaults must forgive fatigue.
Clear empty states, honest errors, and a path that works when the fancy model is rate-limited.
Sell the starting framework
Do not sell magic. Sell a starting framework people can customize.
A sampler that teaches structure outperforms a vault nobody knows how to start.
Field steps
- Watch one real operator for 20 minutes without pitching.
- Cut any step that only exists for the screenshot.
- Add a recovery path for the top three failures.
- Ship the free sampler before the upsell vault.
Long view
Category winners in AI tooling will feel closer to workbenches than slot machines. Workbenches age better.