Building Out Loud

Episode 17: Surfacing the work - Slack, Claude & Soft Launch Readiness

Building Out Loud: Surfacing the work - Slack, Claude & Soft Launch Readiness In this episode of Building Out Loud, Randy Silver catches up with Faith as she moves from pre-launch fear to excitement.  Faith shares major product improvements driven by feedback from Sara (CPO at Semble) and a private equity conversation. Faith adds a seamless Slack connection so anyone can submit feedback, create opportunities, and query the roadmap via a chief-of-staff agent, and introduces a “thought partner” assistant alongside existing workflow help, reorganising the experience into Organising, Thinking, and Doing.  They discuss triage across deep dives (growth strategy), opportunities (features tied to commercial outcomes), and quick wins (automatable fixes with rules and tracking).  Faith positions Discovery as collaborative context for Claude, sets up payments and pricing (first seat free for early signups), and plans a soft launch supported by videos and adoption metrics.  They also discuss Dave Killeen's early challenge on whether it needs a UI or could be headless, and how we meet people where they are.  00:00 Launch Jitters Fade 01:01 Sarahs Alpha Feedback 01:54 Slack Integration Boost 02:34 Thought Partner Assistant 03:25 Organize Think Do Tabs 04:05 Idea Intake And Triage 06:31 Strategy Deep Dives 07:40 Three Level Framework 08:29 Claude And Collaboration 10:12 Payments And Pricing 11:03 Soft Launch Plan 11:38 Adoption Metrics And Doubts 12:54 Interface Or Headless Future 15:34 Wrap Up And Next Week Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/

Episode 16: Demo of beta product

Building Out Loud: Beta feedback, product polish, and the evolving positioning  Randy Silver and Faith Forster discuss progress on Faith’s product leadership platform as it moves from early beta toward launch. The focus has been on fine-tuning UX, streamlining flows, and adding “polish” based on tester behaviour and direct feedback, including a session where Faith observed her husband using it.  Faith demos the updated platform homepage, assistant handoffs, chief-of-staff integrations, improved “what’s changed” alerts, goal-cycle reminders, and an idea-testing feature that evaluates product ideas against strategy, goals, competitors, and customer segments.  They cover limited-but-useful usage analytics, the shift from strategy as the core hook to opportunities as the driver of daily active use. Also  challenges like GDPR and internal approval barriers, plans to automate agent-readable documentation. The positioning continues to evolve, moving toward an “AI CPO companion”. Faith is giving herself a two-week push to finalise payments and get ready for launch. 00:00 Welcome Back Update 00:49 Husband Beta Test 02:48 Platform Demo Begins 03:29 Homepage And Assistants 06:15 Idea Testing Feature 07:09 Usage Data And Onboarding 08:39 Active Use And Opportunities 10:29 Launch Prep And Help Docs 12:37 New Positioning AI CPO 14:38 Full Platform Tour 17:55 Workflow And Value Loop 20:15 Easter Plans And Pricing 20:58 Wrap Up Next Check In Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/

Episode 15: How product teams work in AI native tech businesses

Building Out Loud: Beta testing feedback with Rags (Floto.ai) + How AI is changing product team practices Randy Silver and Faith Forster welcome Rags, co-founder of Floto and a Discovery beta tester with a product background from Google, Meta, and startups.  Rags says Discoveree feels like a “thinking partner” that deliberately slows him down by challenging assumptions, adding guardrails, and mapping practical steps (e.g., founder-led sales to a B2B motion) rather than just providing answers.  He notes bugs and suggests faster onboarding by reusing captured business info, and praises “wow” moments like competitor updates and comparative product recommendations, requesting deeper agent-driven drill-down per recommendation.  The group discusses shifting dev cycles to weekly releases, inverted build-design workflows, small-team scaling via agents, hiring AI-native juniors, and Faith’s beta expansion, PE-firm outreach, bug-fixing, and looming steps like production readiness and taking payments. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 00:44 How They Met 01:38 Why Rags Joined Beta 02:33 Discovery as Thinking Partner 04:21 Goals and Guardrails 07:46 Bugs and Onboarding Friction 09:11 Wow Moments Competitive Insights 12:30 Opportunities Feature Explained 13:15 Modern Dev Cycles Weekly Releases 18:30 Scaling Teams with Agents 22:32 Hiring AI Native Juniors 24:54 Beta Progress and Next Steps 26:36 Closing Thanks Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/

Episode 14: Rethinking the SaaS experience

Building Out Loud: Rethinking the SaaS experience and the Discoveree ICP & value proposition Randy Silver and Faith Foster recap a pivotal week for Faith’s product, Discovery, as she ships access to a first beta tester.  Faith describes a major mindset shift from building a classic structured B2B SaaS tool to a more flexible, document- and conversation-driven assistant that can adapt to different strategy contexts. She explains a new growth strategy workflow: users upload strategy docs, collaborate with a general strategy assistant, and trigger specialist agents for topics like new markets, acquisition, fundraising, or funnel optimisation, with commenting and iterative refinement.  Faith also reports a breakthrough in agent reliability using Opus 4.6, which rapidly diagnosed and fixed issues that previously took weeks.  Conversations with a customer success leader and an investor lead her to broaden positioning beyond product teams to tech business leaders, and she adds outputs like user manuals and website positioning.  Next steps include more beta feedback and an external security-focused code review. 00:00 Beta Shipped Update 01:10 Mental Model Breakthrough 02:01 Trusting AI Semantics 02:57 Strategy Assistant Redesign 04:47 Agents Finally Working 06:14 Bigger Market Positioning 10:03 Automating The Workflow 11:49 Defining Growth Strategy 12:53 New ICP And Next Steps 14:36 Feedback And Security Wrap Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/

Episode 13: Discipline to stay focused

Building Out Loud: Shipping vs. Feature Factory in an AI-Native World Randy Silver and Faith Foster discuss Faith’s week after attending Product Con’s AI Leadership Conference, where she learned how regulated companies like BT are transforming legacy stacks for an AI-agent world and met the founder of Jack and Jill, an AI-native recruitment business that has automated its customer feedback-to-fix loop using multiple agents.  They debate whether this kind of automation creates a sustainable product strategy or an “infinite feature factory,” and what observability and review are needed.  Faith reflects that she overbuilt her product, making it far more complex, and recognises she has lost clarity on her ICP amid investor conversations and the spectrum of AI maturity across businesses.  With customers waiting, she commits to simplifying and shipping a beta, using real usage—and eventually asking for money—as the forcing function for learning. 00:00 Welcome and weekly check-in 00:30 ProductCon insights on AI transformation 02:07 Automated feedback loops and feature factories 03:52 Discovery focus and corporate expectations 04:28 Overbuilding and losing the ICP 06:20 Alpha learnings and investor pressure 08:48 Back to hypotheses and real users 09:38 Solo founder tension and accountability 12:08 Poker lesson ask for money 13:10 This week ship the beta 13:57 Wrap-up and next week challenge Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/