Building Out Loud: 70 Alpha Signups, Early Validation & Getting to a Production-Ready Stack

Randy Silver and Faith Foster check in on Faith’s weekly progress building her AI product discovery tool. 

Faith has grown her alpha group to 70 people, with about half of the original 60 logging in and nine completing the feedback form; 55% rated it extremely valuable or valuable, and about 80% saw value overall. Feedback highlights that adoption is a multi-stakeholder, team-wide decision and that onboarding and implementation need to be seamless, including importing existing product documentation and expanding the AI assistant to create roadmap items. 

Faith updated messaging and a new website to position it as a strategic CPO purchase focused on CEO/board decision-making and commercial alignment, prioritising UK/EU B2B SaaS (especially PE-backed). Polarised reactions informed a two-tier pricing model (tactical feedback/roadmapping vs outcome and goal alignment). 

Next she’ll chase testers, prepare four beta users, improve agent reliability, data security, and integrations, and move to a more robust stack with evals tooling; a future episode will feature Ed Biden on evals and production readiness.

00:00 Weekly Check In
01:09 Early User Signals
02:20 Onboarding And AI Assistant
03:06 Messaging And Jobs To Be Done
04:30 Ideal Customer Profile
05:45 Maturity And Pricing Tiers
07:32 Next Week Execution Plan
08:20 Stack Upgrade And Evals
09:05 Confidence And Hiring Help
11:19 Next Episode Preview