Building Out Loud

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-gat...

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 mor...

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...

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 mom...

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...

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, creat...

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.  F...

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 mapp...

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 differ...

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...

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 cha...

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 inv...

Building Out Loud: Debugging AI Agents, Evals, and When to Move Beyond Prototyping Tools (with Ed Biden of Hustle Badger) Randy Silver and Faith Forster are joined by Ed Biden, co-founder of Hustle Badger, to follow up on Faith’s progress building an AI-powered discovery product.  Faith shares insights from roughly 20 interviews and survey feedback, noting strong resonance with the product’s comme...

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 val...

Building Out Loud: Under the Hood of AI Agents (Logging, LLM Routing & Competitor Tracking) Randy and Faith catch up on Faith’s startup progress after sending a trial to 60 people and getting useful feedback on product, selling, implementation, and how it fits into customers’ tool stacks.  This episode goes under the hood on why shipping took longer: building reliable AI agents was frustrating...

Building Out Loud: Initial MVP Feedback & wrestling with Agents  Randy Silver and Faith Forster catch up after Faith reaches a key milestone: a working MVP that covers the full workflow.  After walking a few “friendly” product leaders through the tool, Faith uses early feedback to sharpen the purpose of each element. She shares strong early demand signals and early indications of willingness t...

Building Out Loud: Faith’s MVP Is Live — Debugging, Gemini Integration, and What Comes Next In this episode of Building Out Loud, Randy Silver checks in with Faith after a gap in updates and she reveals big news: her MVP is now live in production.  Faith shares that launching triggered a major debugging and security push, including ensuring a secure multi-tenant setup and correct data handling.  ...

Building Out Loud: Naming and Branding with Chad Butz In this episode of 'Building Out Loud,' host Randy Silver and guest Chad discuss the journey of Faith's new startup, focusing on the challenges and processes involved in naming and branding the product 'Discoveree.'  They explore the importance of a strong brand, product messaging, and the difficulties of naming a new product. The conversation...

Building Out Loud: Faith's Path to Discoveree - Naming, Prototyping, and Feedback In this episode of 'Building Out Loud,' hosts Randy and Faith discuss her latest progress on the newly named app, Discoveree. Faith explains her decision to move development from Lovable to Replit for better functionality and reliability. She highlights Discoveree's new features, including onboarding flows, AI-genera...

Building Out Loud: Faith's AI-Driven Product Management Prototype In this episode of 'Building Out Loud,' hosts Randy and Faith dive into the development of Faith's new AI project designed for product monitoring and management.  Faith showcases her progress, highlighting the journey from a simple clickable prototype in Lovable to a more advanced version being built in Replit. The episode covers th...

Building Out Loud: Faith's Journey into AI startup for "Product Intelligence" Welcome to the latest episode of 'Building Out Loud,' a weekly check-in hosted by Randy and Faith as they delve into the development of Faith's new AI project, 'Product Intelligence.' This episode covers the initial ideation, challenges in gathering and analyzing data for product management, and the potential of AI agent...

Building Out Loud: Faith Forster's AI Startup Journey Welcome to 'Building Out Loud,' a new podcast where Randy Silver and Faith Forster document the weekly progress of Faith's journey in building a new AI startup. Faith, a Chief Product Officer, explores how AI can transform the product management space by making processes more efficient. The series delves into the challenges of startup building,...