Products built quickly with AI assistance tend to be more generic because the underlying LLMs are pre-trained on the same data.

A common rule of thumb is that an AI-driven solution must be 10 times cheaper than the legacy manual approach to be a compelling alternative.

The primary application of AI in the Design Sprint process has been to create more realistic-looking prototypes at a faster pace.

Price is rarely the most important differentiator for startups because incumbents like Google or OpenAI can leverage their resources to offer underpriced or loss-leader products.

Character Capital created the Foundation Sprint methodology in 2021-2022 to address foundational strategy questions for the pre-seed and inception-stage companies they invest in.

Character Capital portfolio company Bindwell uses AI to design precision pesticides, allowing it to compete on price in a way that was not previously possible with software.