Nick from Public Editor launched his AI-Native SaaS Product 2x faster & increased chances of raising series-A funding by 500%
- Industry
- Education | Media
- Type
- Startup
- Client
- Public Editor
- Technology
- Web
- Location
- Silicon Valley, USA
Nicholas Adams
Startup Founder
500%
Increase in investor interest for Series-A
300%
Increase in product control & visibility
84%
Decrease in Cloud architecture cost
200%
Increase in Engineering speed
Context & Goal
Nick, founder of Public Editor, a startup based out of Silicon Valley, had hired a software design and engineering team a year ago. He was hoping to turn his research project into an AI-Native software product to help fight misinformation and educate people which he can commercialise and build a startup around.
Business Challenge
Nick's problem was
- Inexperienced software design & engineering team
- Team had no background in building software for startups with their specialized needs
- He felt stuck & frustrated with his current team, losing control over his product
- He believed that there ought to be a better way to build the product
The Plan
Nick hired Carte Blanche to
- Audit broken product to identify gaps
- Redesign user-experience (UX) to bring clarity to confusing and broken flows
- Gamify product experience for adoption
- Fix clunky code for scalability
- Bring control and clarity through product management
Transformation
Before
- 12-months & thousands of $ spent, product was still half-finished causing Nick to lose further opportunities to raise funding
- Missed deadlines made Nick look bad to potential funders and partners
- Feeling lost, flailing, out of control, at the mercy of an engineering team that was not transparent, and not always competent
- Cringy, confusing and broken product
After
- Product MVP launched successfully within 6 months
- 5x more investors interested for next round of funding
- 12x AI agents automating entire workflow
- Users love Nick's product interface and experience
- Engineering speed increased by 2x & AWS architecture cost reduced by 84%
- Product control & visibility improved by 3x
Deliverables
Agentic workflowMVP Design & DevelopmentUX/UI Audit & DesignWeb Application DevelopmentTesting/QACloud ArchitectureCI/CD
Core Technologies Used
React
Next.js
Expo
TypeScript
Django
AWS
Docker
PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
NginX
Tailwind
RadixUI
D3
Vitest
Figma
IllustratorProduct Features Developed
01
Text Manipulation
- Filter, Search, Sort functionality
- Text scraping & cleaning
- NLP-based textual analysis
- Document parser
- Text highlighting & categorization
02
Other Product Features
- Guided training paths & user progress tracking
- Gamified learning paths
- Social media sharing
- Data import and export
- User-onboarding
- Auto static-site-generator
03
Analytics
- User progress dashboard
- Usage analytics dashboard
- Charts and graphs
Integrations
Facebook sign-in
Google sign-in
Google AnalyticsBrowser Extensions
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Edge
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Product Consultation Meeting
- 2 Months
Product MVP launched in 8 weeks
- 200%
Increase in Engineering speed
- 300%
Increase in product control and visibility
- 84%
Decrease in Cloud architecture cost
- 400%
Increase in data accessibility
- 66%
Decrease in management cost due to automation
