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An AI Product Development Roadmap for Startups

Startups don't have time to play AI lab. Here's a pragmatic 6-month roadmap that balances learning, shipping, and not burning your runway.

By Saad Alam

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An AI Product Development Roadmap for Startups

Month 1: pick one painful workflow you understand cold. Build the dumbest possible AI solution for it. Ship it to 5 users.

Month 2-3: instrument everything. Add an eval set. Tighten the loop between user behaviour and model behaviour.

Month 4: pick the second feature only after the first one moves a real number. Resist the urge to ship features that demo well but don't measure.

Month 5-6: harden, scale, hire. Move to multi-tenant infra, add SSO/security, write the runbook. By now you've earned the right to chase ambitious features.

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