Why We Built an AI Market Research Tool to Pivot Our Own Company

The Feature Factory Trap About six months ago, Acrutus was stuck. Like many technical founders, we had fallen deep into the "Feature Factory" trap. We were building complex AI features into an existing application, assuming the sheer force of our technical architecture would attract paying users. It didn't. We were solving technical challenges that were fun to code, but mapping no real market value to business operations. We needed a pivot, but we didn't want to rely on gut instinct or s...