The original title is: "Built an AI App but Nobody Paid? Use a Paid-Pilot-First Plan"

Short summary

A framework for solo AI builders who have a working app but no paying customers, arguing that the missing evidence is not more code but a buyer with a specific costly problem. The paid-pilot-first plan reverses the build-then-search sequence: identify one painful workflow, write a one-sentence offer with fixed price and bounded result, and build only the slice needed to deliver. The PACT screen (Pain, Access, Clarity, Trust) helps validate whether the hypothesis is concrete enough to test.

• •Reverse the sequence: find a buyer with a costly workflow before building the full product
• •Write a one-sentence offer specifying buyer, problem, bounded result, timeline, and fixed price
• •Use the PACT screen (Pain, Access, Clarity, Trust) to evaluate whether the hypothesis is testable

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