Agent teams · Before you build

Build what people are
already asking for

Most products fail on demand, not code. This team reads the live internet — search trends, community complaints, one-star reviews, competitor gaps — and hands you ranked, cited Opportunity Briefs before you invest a single build.

Open Discovery

Four researchers, one sweep

Give it a direction — "problems freelancers pay to solve" — and four specialists fan out in parallel: TrendScout over search and category growth, SocialMiner over Reddit and YouTube complaints, PainPointMiner over Q&A sites and one-star reviews, WebScout over competitors and market reports. Briefs arrive in 10–25 minutes.

Discovery · run #14
TrendScout"invoice reminder" +140% YoY · 12 sources
SocialMiner31 verbatim complaints · r/freelance, r/smallbusiness
PainPointMiner19 one-star reviews naming the same missing feature
WebScoutprofiling 8 competitors…

Briefs with receipts, not vibes

The synthesizer merges all four evidence streams into ranked Opportunity Briefs: the problem, the demand signals, the competitor gap, a buildable MVP scope and a confidence rating. Every claim is cited to a URL an agent actually opened — you can check its work.

Brief #3 — Invoice-chasing for freelancersConfidence: High
"I spend every Friday chasing unpaid invoices. I’d pay for anything that does this." — r/freelance, 214 upvotes
demand ↑ 140% YoY7 competitor gapsMVP: 3 screens14 sources cited
Build thisValidate demandSocial posts

Validate demand before you build

One click publishes a waitlist landing page for the brief, and the Advertising team stages a traffic campaign for it — paused, in your own Ads Manager. Real signups from real strangers, before a line of product code exists.

validate.buildmidas.com/invoice-chaser
Waitlist page — liveDay 4
87 signups4.1% conversion from the staged campaign
Signal

Straight into the loop

A validated brief doesn’t end as a PDF. Build this hands the MVP scope straight to the Builder team; Social posts has the Marketing team draft the announcement; and once shipped, Trace & Optimization checks the demand hypothesis against real traffic.

ResearchBrief #3 · confidence high
Done
BuilderMVP scope → plan approved → building
Shipwaiting on build
Trace & Optimizationwill verify the demand hypothesis

How it runs

01

Point it

A direction and a region — "problems freelancers pay to solve", worldwide.

02

Read the briefs

Ranked, cited, with MVP scope and confidence — in 10–25 minutes.

03

Validate

One click: waitlist page live + a paused traffic campaign staged.

04

Build the winner

The brief flows into the Builder team with its scope attached.

Questions, answered

Where does the evidence come from?

Live sweeps of search trends, Reddit and YouTube discussions, Q&A sites, app-store reviews, competitor sites and market reports. Every claim in a brief links to the URL the agent actually opened — nothing is asserted from memory.

How long does a run take?

Typically 10–25 minutes for a full sweep with four researchers in parallel, depending on how rich the direction is.

Can it validate demand without building the product?

Yes — that is the point. A brief can publish a waitlist landing page in one click, and the Advertising team stages a traffic campaign for it in paused state. You get real conversion data before any build.

What happens to a brief I like?

Build this sends the MVP scope straight into the Builder team as a plan; Social posts has the Marketing team draft announcements; the whole loop attributes later traffic back to the brief.

Stop guessing what to build

Point the research team at a direction and read the evidence.

Open Discovery