Product‑market fit

Common Mistakes to Avoid in AI SaaS Startups

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1) Shipping “chat” instead of a system of action 2) Unpermissioned or stale retrieval (RAG) 3) Free‑text actions to production systems 4) “Big model everywhere” and cost blowups 5) No golden evals or CI gates 6) Ignoring reversal and appeal rates 7) Weak privacy and residency posture 8) Underestimating integration fragility 9) Over‑automation too early … Read more

The Challenges of Developing AI SaaS Applications

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Building AI SaaS is hard because it must be simultaneously intelligent, actionable, governable, and economical. Teams struggle with messy data, uncited outputs, flaky integrations, unclear SLOs, rising token/compute costs, privacy and residency demands, fairness obligations, and “pilot purgatory.” The way through is to ground every output in evidence, emit schema‑valid actions behind policy gates and … Read more