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/

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/

Building Out Loud: Rethinking PRDs, Roadmaps, and Product Teams in an AI-Native World

Randy Silver checks in with Faith Forster on her progress building Discovery after speaking with over 70 product leaders and using feedback to update the product, shifting it toward a “strategic advisor” and embedding agents to help shape and apply product strategy across decision-making. 

They discuss how AI changes product development fundamentals—what roadmaps, PRDs, epics, and tasks mean when building is faster and work may be defined for agents rather than engineers—highlighting a “product experience document” that emphasises behavior, tone, and guardrails. Faith explains Discovery’s approach: defining problems, generating and comparing solution ideas, then producing different scoping/design outputs depending on audience (engineer, AI agent, stakeholder), with customisable templates. 

They also cover collaboration, bias, diversity of viewpoints, the limits of artificial personas versus real users, prototyping trade-offs, and challenges for legacy and regulated stacks. 

Faith’s next priority is getting the beta ready around ProductCon.

00:00 Weekly Build Update
01:21 Future of Product Work
03:50 Teams to Domains Shift
04:01 Artifacts Not Outcomes
06:30 Designing for Agents
09:14 Collaboration and Bias
12:35 Build Fast Risk Smart
15:46 Prototypes and Legacy
17:51 Beta Prep and Wrap

Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/

Building Out Loud: Beta Prep, Investor Decks & Fixing AI Agents with Langfuse

In this episode of Building Out Loud, Randy Silver and Faith Forster recap a big week: Faith meets Anton, founder of Lovable, and reflects on where Lovable excels (websites and decks) but still falls short for production B2B apps. 
Buoyed by strong alpha sign-ups, she begins preparing to raise funding, sharing an investor deck and getting early feedback from investors who prefer post-revenue companies. 
On the product side, she finally improves her agent reliability by combining guidance from Claude with Replit and by adding Langfuse tracing and evals for clearer debugging than basic logs. 
Faith then previews rapid beta progress, including a revamped “Competitor Intelligence” area with dynamic profiles, strategic analysis, comparisons, and assignable product recommendations, and plans to have the beta ready for upcoming team onboarding calls.

00:00 Welcome Back Update
00:24 Meeting Lovable Founder
01:09 Pitch Deck And Fundraising
02:47 Agents Finally Working
04:06 How Technical To Be
07:19 Replit Logs Tour
08:11 Langfuse Tracing And Evals
12:40 Beta Build Sneak Peek
13:17 Competitor Intelligence Features
18:32 Roadmap And Wrap Up

Learn more about Discoveree: https://discoveree.com/