Product Strategy, Debated & Decided
Build vs buy, market entry timing, feature prioritization — every major product call has tradeoffs your team is probably underweighting. AskVerdict surfaces them before you commit.
The Problem
Product decisions get made with incomplete information
Feature creep
Teams add features because they can, not because they should — no structured tradeoff analysis
Timing risk
Market entry at the wrong moment is often more damaging than entering the wrong market
HiPPO effect
Highest Paid Person's Opinion dominates when there's no structured debate framework to challenge it
How AskVerdict Helps
Three Ways to Build Smarter
Build vs Buy
Debate the make-or-buy decision properly
Build vs buy is never just about cost. Agents weigh opportunity cost, vendor risk, maintenance burden, hiring implications, and long-term strategic control — then debate each other's conclusions before delivering a verdict.
Opportunity cost modelled
What could your team ship instead? Agents quantify the cost of distraction, not just the direct cost.
Vendor risk surfaced
Pricing risk, API deprecation, outage exposure, and lock-in depth all explicitly evaluated.
Scale break-even calculated
At what scale does the economics flip? Agents calculate the crossover point explicitly.
Market Entry
Analyze TAM, competition, and timing
Market entry mistakes compound. Agents model total addressable market, competitive dynamics, regulatory exposure, and timing risk across multiple candidate markets — then debate which to enter first and why.
Multi-market comparison
TAM, CAGR, competition density, and regulatory complexity modelled side by side.
Timing analysis
Is the market too early, too late, or exactly right? Agents debate the timing risk explicitly.
ICP fit scoring
Which market segment best matches your ideal customer profile today, not in three years?
Feature Prioritization
Score features across three dimensions, simultaneously
User impact, engineering effort, and strategic alignment — most teams optimise one and guess at the others. AskVerdict agents debate each feature across all three dimensions, then produce a stack-ranked backlog with explicit reasoning for every placement.
Stack-ranked output
A prioritized feature list with the specific reasoning behind each placement.
Quick-win identification
High-impact, low-effort items surfaced and separated from strategic bets.
Trade-off transparency
When two features compete for the same slot, the debate explains exactly why one wins.
Example Debate
See It In Action
A real product debate — build, buy, and security agents argue it out, then a verdict lands.
Sample debate question
"Should we build our own auth system or use Auth0 / Better Auth?"
Build Agent
Building in-house gives full control over session management, token lifecycle, and audit trails. Auth is a core security surface — vendor outages and pricing changes create existential risk. At 500k+ users the per-MAU cost of Auth0 exceeds a dedicated engineer.
Buy Agent
Auth is a solved problem. Better Auth is open-source, self-hostable, and eliminates vendor lock-in while removing the maintenance burden. The team that builds custom auth will spend 6 months on password reset flows and MFA edge cases instead of core product. Opportunity cost is the dominant factor here.
Security Agent
Custom auth at early stage teams introduces critical risk: session fixation, CSRF, timing attacks on password comparison. These are solved in mature libraries. The build agent's scale argument is valid at 500k MAU — you are at 12k. Revisit in 18 months.
Verdict summary
Use Better Auth now. The security risk of custom auth at current team size is real, and the opportunity cost is decisive. Set a calendar reminder to re-evaluate when MAU reaches 300k — at that point the economics shift and you will have engineering bandwidth to do it properly. Confidence: 84%.
Product Managers
Stop defending roadmap choices with vibes. Bring a structured debate verdict to your next sprint planning.
CTOs & VPs Eng
Architecture decisions with a 5-year blast radius deserve more than a Slack thread. Debate them properly.
Founders
Every major pivot, market entry, and build-vs-buy call should be stress-tested before you commit the team.
Ship the right thing with confidence
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