Most founders are confidently fixing the wrong thing
A few weeks ago I posted about building Sensei — an AI that tells founders what’s actually broken instead of giving them more validation theater.
The most useful feedback I got wasn’t “cool idea.” It was:
how do you make this something founders keep using instead of a one-time audit?
That stuck with me, because that’s the real problem.
Most founders do not need another teardown.
They need something that keeps paying attention after the first opinion. 👀
So I’ve been pushing Sensei further in that direction.
It now looks at your site, positioning, and competitors — then keeps watching. The goal is not just to hand you a one-time score and disappear. It’s to help you see what changed, what’s holding you back, and what to do next before you waste time solving the wrong problem.
That shift came from my own mistakes.
I’ve spent months building the wrong thing before.
Not because I was lazy.
Because I was too close to it.
You convince yourself the problem is onboarding.
Or pricing.
Or conversion.
Or some feature request that sounded important in the moment.
Meanwhile the real issue is sitting somewhere else entirely. ⚠️
That’s what I want Sensei to help with:
seeing the thing that’s easy to miss when you’re buried in your own product.
It’s still in beta, and I’m keeping it free to use right now while I make it sharper and learn from real founder feedback. 🚧
If you’re building something and want a brutally honest second set of eyes, I’d love for you to try it:
https://asksensei.dev
Would genuinely love feedback from other founders on whether this feels like something you’d actually come back to weekly, not just try once.
This is a strong shift. The “one-time teardown” vs “continuous awareness” framing is the real difference.
I think the deeper issue is most founders don’t just misidentify problems—they cycle through wrong ones based on whatever feels urgent that week. So even if you show them the right issue once, they drift again.
If Sensei can consistently pull them back to the actual constraint, that’s where it becomes something people return to, not just try once.
Curious—how are you thinking about making the “come back weekly” behavior natural instead of forced?
The shift from a one-time audit to a continuous AI “sensei” for founders is a strong insight — staying useful after the first feedback loop is where most tools fall short. I also like that it’s rooted in your own experience of solving the wrong problems, that makes the positioning feel real.
If you can really nail the “weekly habit” angle (like showing what changed + what to act on), this could stand out in a crowded SaaS feedback space.
If you're working on something new, this could help 👀
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Because fixing something feels like progress.
But choosing what to fix is the real work.