Results
The GlyphAI feature presentation, consisting of product specifications and the engineering team's early feasibility testing, convince the venture fund board to approve further funding for GlyphX. More importantly, GlyphX received three Letters of Intent from its development partners, achieving it's first paying customers.
Lessons
The GlyphAI design process showcased both the right and wrong ways to collaborate with an engineering team. With the project manager and newly hired CEO focused on the venture board and development parters, I had to maintain the product’s scope.
The engineers at GlyphX are exceptional at pushing boundaries, but introducing a new tool like a Large Language Model can easily derail progress. For instance, while LLMs excel at data cleaning and manipulation, these tasks fall outside GlyphX’s core focus of data exploration, analysis, and communication.
Diluting our early-stage resources to compete with established tools like Excel would have spread us too thin, too fast. By staying focused on our core strengths and avoiding scope creep, I ensured GlyphX remained aligned with its long-term vision without sacrificing momentum in the early stages.
