How sharing your failures and learnings openly builds a compound moat around your product.
Transparency isn't just a marketing tactic; it's a structural moat. When you share the technical hurdles of building a de-identification engine or the failures in a RAG pipeline, you aren't leaking IP—you're building equity in trust.
Building in public forces a degree of intellectual honesty that internal roadmaps lack. It invites the market to calibrate your assumptions before you spend six months building a solution looking for a problem.
Defensibility through Failure
Competitors can copy your UI. They can't copy the context you gained from the three pivots you shared openly with your community. That tribal knowledge is the only defensible asset in an AI-commoditized world.