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

Episode 22: Live at Productized 2026 (Lisbon)

Building Out Loud (Live in Lisbon): Discoveree’s Launch Week, Agent Lessons, and the Maker’s Manifesto Randy Silver and Faith Forster record a live episode of Building Out Loud at Productized in Lisbon, inviting audience questions via Slido.  Faith explains how Discoveree began after struggling to use AI agents to synthesize scattered product inputs into strategy, then evolved from information-gathering agents into layered agents that analyze, assess competitors, connect insights to goals and roadmaps, and generate recommendations.  She describes a rocky six-month build, including major hosting and payments complexity moving from US-hosted Replit to EU instances, and a costly incident where an error triggered over 100,000 failed LLM calls.  Faith discusses shifting positioning toward strategy assistants and a team-shared “living” context, why AI changes MVP expectations, and her launch-week push amid conferences and personal demands.  They also cover creating the global, cross-disciplinary Maker’s Manifesto and answer audience questions on iterating agents with evals and prioritizing work as a solopreneur. 00:00 Live Podcast Kickoff 01:06 Meet Faith and Randy 02:39 Discoveree Origin Story 04:45 Agents to Insights 06:50 Hype vs Reality 09:17 Positioning Evolves 12:25 Solo Founder and Agents 14:03 Charging and Launch Week 14:37 AI Changes MVP 18:07 Makers Manifesto 22:31 Audience Q and A 26:51 Wrap Up and Selfie

Episode 21: Launch week reflections

Building Out Loud: Credit Drains, the Maker’s Manifesto, and a Big Launch Week for Discoveree Randy Silver and Faith Forster discuss the confidence hit Faith felt after her Discoveree bank account was drained, and Randy shares a similar experience where agent changes unexpectedly switched models and rapidly burned through credits.  They reflect on how model updates and fallbacks can default to more expensive options, the value of tracing, dashboards, routers, and circuit breakers, and unresolved issues with Gemini consuming credits.  The focus shifts to next week’s major events: Faith speaking on the main stage at Mind the Product in London about AI-native product discovery, a live Building Out Loud recording at Productized in Lisbon, and running a workshop tied to the Maker’s Manifesto.  They describe extensive global feedback refining the manifesto and Faith’s intentional mix of new and enduring principles, then outline this week’s priorities: final platform testing after EU architecture fixes, preparing a demo video, notifying beta testers, and sharing discount codes at the conferences. 00:00 Welcome Back and Setback 00:44 Randy’s Credit Surprise 02:05 Tracing the Real Cause 03:44 Big Week on Stage 04:05 Mind the Product Talk Prep 04:45 Live Podcast and Workshop 06:31 Manifesto Feedback Deep Dive 08:01 Do Principles Need to Be New 10:48 This Week’s Discoveree Push 12:46 Beta Relaunch and Discount Code 13:35 Wrap Up and Next Episodes

Episode 20: When the LLMs drain your bank account

Building Out Loud: When the LLMs drain your bank account (and How to Prevent It) In this episode of Building Out Loud, Faith shares a weekend incident while preparing Discoveree to go live: updates to competitor profiles triggered repeated refresh errors, causing the system to retry every few seconds and run via Gemini (then Perplexity), rapidly consuming her LLM budgets and auto-recharging until it drained her business account by a couple of thousand pounds.  They discuss how AI agents can behave like an “intelligent but idiotic intern,” the emotional impact of being responsible for the code, and the safeguards Faith added—circuit breakers after three failures, requiring a user login to trigger 24-hour schedules, and segregating LLM spend into a separate bank account—plus knock-on costs like Langfuse overages and account blocks. 00:00 Welcome and Heatwave 00:49 Big Weekend Incident 00:58 Product Updates Before Launch 01:47 Runaway Refresh Drains Budget 02:29 How Bad Was It 04:15 AI Intern and Safeguards 05:49 Spend Limits and Auto Recharge 06:51 Segregating Accounts and Tool Costs 08:17 Phishing Like Feeling 09:30 Monitoring Agents and Alerts 10:18 Lessons Learned and Wrap Up

Episode 19: Is SaaS dead? Should I even launch?

Building Out Loud: Is SaaS dead? Should I even launch?  Randy Silver and Faith Forster discuss why Discoveree still isn’t charging, and some of the realities of getting an AI native product to production. Faith is also tightening MCP connections after testing showed setup confusion; she’s preconfiguring common tools like Notion so users can enable them easily.  She shares a post-Easter loss of momentum, doubts fueled by “SaaS is dead” talk, and burnout from building a complex product solo. She has regained confidence after seeing how some of the top tech teams are using AI, and realised they're optimising for individual workflows rather than team collaboration and business outcomes—which is much more complex, reinforcing Discoveree’s value in secure, collaborative, business-context decision-making.  She’s refining positioning to “make better product decisions faster, together,” simplifying the website, considering branding as Discoveree.com. She talks about soft launch plans, the role of product ops in supporting AI adoption within the organisations, and adding guided onboarding/ customer success support. 00:00 Two Instances Problem 01:55 MCP Tooling Setup 02:36 Founder Doubts Surface 04:25 SaaS Is Dead Debate 05:26 Teamwork Value Proposition 09:12 Burnout And Momentum 10:56 Positioning And Branding 13:05 Soft Launch Plan 14:20 Targeting Product Ops 15:52 Onboarding And Taxonomy 17:43 Next Week With DJ

Episode 18: Launch readiness & introducing the Makers Manifesto

Building Out Loud: Launch readiness & a new Manifesto for an AI world Randy Silver and Faith Forster check in on Faith’s progress building Discoveree as she nears launch, delayed partly by a recent Lovable data leak and her desire to meet a high quality bar, including a help centre and user agreement.  Faith shares practical progress (buying discoveree.com, registering the business, setting up a bank account, and checking tooling for scalability) and discusses prioritising launch readiness, using external timelines for accountability, and the growing need for customer success and broader marketing to drive adoption. They explore QA and documentation challenges when building quickly with agents, including keeping help content current and ideas for generating it via Replit.  Faith & Randy also introduce the “next Agile Manifesto”, a draft set of core principles for an AI world. Created with 42 contributors across disciplines and from around the world, it is being tested at upcoming conferences in Australia, Lisbon and Hamburg. It balances enduring principles with radically changing execution to create what they hope will be a blueprint for how to make great products at speed. Visit makersmanifesto.org to see the principles and share your comments.  00:00 Welcome Back Update 00:33 Launch Readiness Checklist 01:43 Defining Enough To Ship 03:00 Deadlines And External Accountability 03:31 Adoption Marketing And Funding 05:08 Solo QA And Documentation 06:37 Automating The Help Center 07:57 New AI Manifesto Origins 10:16 Principles Strategy And Context 14:25 Draft Launch And Community Feedback 15:58 Wrap Up Next Week Goals