Iba Masood

We actually brought product managers on board on our team.

We had about 10 to 15 contractors early on that were actually running the scoping process.

We were comparing results between what the AI could do versus what human product managers were mapping out.

What we found was that

there was about 70% of an actual product manager's time was really going into the scoping process and understanding and figuring out how the work should be divided week by week.

And we realized that a lot of this work could be automated by learning from what had been done in the past.

And specifically by looking at open source projects.

Because we, as a company, we have this hypothesis that open source projects are one of the most efficiently run projects as a whole because...

Typically, when people are pursuing side projects, they have a timeline and they need to get things done quickly.

But they like to also pursue shortcuts.

Shortcuts that are actually efficient in nature that can use some level of open source code to get to where you need to be.

So these kind of hypotheses really formed our early product.

And, uh, and so what we were surprised by was that initially we thought real quick before you tell me surprises.

It's both.

So what we do is we have the licensing model.

So large enterprises, they typically come in and they have, um, annual contracts and that's licensing for the scoping software.

So we're looking at about 120K annual.

And then on top of that, there's also marketplace charges.

So one of the things we're introducing over time are API connections, API integrations to actually help make the project or the software development process more efficient.

Yeah.