Building Out Loud

Building Out Loud: Live on many stages, the behind the scene's view 

Randy Silver and Faith Forster catch up after an intense few weeks spanning major product conferences and the launch of her startup, Discoveree.com, alongside The Makers Manifesto. 

Faith shares what it was like delivering a main-stage solo talk at Mind the Product’s Barbican event—how she prepared, the vulnerability of presenting her own work, and the positive reception—plus a missed opportunity to explain the manifesto more. 

They recap a live Building Out Loud podcast recorded on stage at Productized in Lisbon, and Makers Manifesto workshops in Lisbon and Hamburg, including practical takeaways like making organisational context explicit for both humans and AI agents, and examples of attendees testing the manifesto with AI tools. Faith reflects on mixed reactions to the manifesto’s ambition, how it provides a grounding amid industry uncertainty, and how it connects back to Discoveree’s purpose. 

Looking ahead, she plans product cleanup, automation improvements, and a major focus on enterprise go-to-market, partnerships, and customer onboarding.

00:00 Welcome Back Update
00:38 Conference Whirlwind
02:08 Mind the Product Talk
04:10 Manifesto Moment
05:13 Unexpected Credibility Boost
07:27 LinkedIn Traction
07:44 Workshop Takeaways
10:06 Back to Discoveree
11:27 Why the Manifesto Matters
13:05 Spicy or Aspirational
15:44 Learning Loops Example
17:33 Next Week Preview
18:26 This Week Focus Shift
19:35 Sales and Partnerships Plan
21:20 Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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/