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Problem definition document

A problem definition document with the market, buyer roles, and per-problem definition, metrics, prior solutions, buying authority, and a 1-10 severity.

You receive: A structured PDD (one block per problem) that passes the completeness checks.

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Industry

AI agents and agent-delivered knowledge work

Market size

AI agents market approximately $8B in 2025, growing 42-50% CAGR (cited external estimate)

Buyer roles

  • Solo founder
  • Early-stage founder
  • Small product team lead
  • Ops lead adopting agents
  • Engineering lead adopting agents

Problems

DefinitionGetting real work out of AI is still manual craft: every task needs an expert prompt, the business context re-supplied by hand, and the output carried into the right place afterward. The hours the intelligence saves get spent operating it, and on a small team that operator is the founder.
Metrics
  • Minutes of prompting, context-supplying, and rework per finished artifact
  • Share of AI sessions that restate company facts already written down elsewhere
  • Percent of AI output used as delivered, without manual reshaping
Prior solutions
  • Prompt libraries and saved system prompts
  • Custom GPTs and per-tool instruction files
  • Hiring a consultant or operator to run the tools
  • Copy-paste pipelines between chat tools and documents
Buyer authorityThe founder or budget-holding team lead approves the spend directly; on solo and early-stage teams the economic buyer and the user are the same person.
Rating9
DefinitionA venture's knowledge goes stale the moment it is written down. Facts live scattered across chat threads, decks, and planning docs; when one changes, nothing downstream updates, so the venture's own materials quietly diverge from reality and every new piece of work starts from an out-of-date picture.
Metrics
  • Age of the oldest business fact still being pasted into new work
  • Number of places the same fact is maintained by hand
  • Share of documents contradicting a current fact at any given audit
Prior solutions
  • Wikis and knowledge bases maintained by hand
  • Quarterly document review rituals
  • A single operating doc that one person keeps current
Buyer authorityScope decisions sit with the founder or the commissioning lead, the same person who holds the budget and owns the venture's source-of-truth documents.
Rating7
DefinitionBuyers with a fuzzy outcome in mind cannot turn it into a well-scoped, checkable unit of work. Scoping is a skill; without it the buyer either over-specifies and pays for rigidity, or under-specifies and gets work that misses the intent.
Metrics
  • Time from first stated outcome to an agreed, checkable spec
  • Share of inbound requests abandoned before any work is commissioned
  • Percent of delivered work rejected for missing the intent rather than failing the spec
Prior solutions
  • Engaging a consultant or agency to scope the work first
  • Templated brief and spec generators
  • Trial-and-error prompting until the output looks right
Buyer authorityThe commissioning lead scopes and approves; for spend inside a prepaid monthly plan the same person can act without a second approval.
Rating6

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