How to Turn AI Prototypes into Validated Products
🚨 Important: How to Register 🚨
To attend this Lightning Lesson, you must register via Maven. Follow this link to sign up and confirm your spot:
https://maven.com/p/842510/how-to-turn-ai-prototypes-into-validated-products
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Most founders don’t fail because they can’t build. They fail because they build the wrong thing.
In this fast‑paced 30‑minute Maven Lightning Lesson, you’ll get a practical, repeatable system for validating your AI ideas with real humans before you over‑invest in code.
What You’ll Learn ⚙
🤔 The Eyebrow Metric
How to spot the exact interview moments — raised eyebrows, confused squints, excited lean‑ins — that tell you what to build next and what to cut.
🧪 The Prototype–Test Loop
How to run a one‑shot build, test it with 5–10 real users, then iterate quickly using AI tools (without disappearing into a feature rabbit hole).
🤝 Design Partnership Agreements
How to turn your earliest believers into committed design partners that investors actually care about — not just “friendly users.”
Your Host 👋
Marc Krejci, Fractional CPO at Pathfinder Foundry
Marc has 20+ years designing and shipping software, including 7.5 years at Meta (VR, AI, ML). He’s a co‑founder, multi‑patent holder, and fractional CPO for early‑stage startups with 60+ innovation initiatives across industries. He’s been through enough failed builds — his own included — to know the bottleneck is never the code, it’s the signal from real users.