Discovery Lens
F Pain Point Scan
Specific, urgent, and still unsolved — the kind of pain that converts
In Plain English
A 24-hour Gaussian Splat pipeline for mid-tier real-estate brokerages, giving agents navigable 3D walkthroughs of listings from standard phone capture within one business day.
One-Liner
24-hour Gaussian Splat listings for mid-tier brokerages — killed because the leading capture vendor is 6-9 months from shipping the same capability to their existing customer base.
AI Thinking Process
T3 PIVOTS failed after 2 attempts. Attempt 1: buyer-side browser extension — legal risk from listing-scraping precedent plus broker hostility. Attempt 2: tenant-side apartment-tour recording — frequency trap, consumer tours 3-8 apartments then signs 12-month lease, single-use app. Kill confirmed: Matterport absorption window 6-9 months for any pipeline sold to their AEC customer base.
Kill Reason
Matterport (well-capitalised local challenger, ~$500M revenue) is 6-9 months from shipping navigable GS output that would absorb this idea as a feature in their existing customer base. The two-sprint incumbent defense window is too short for any wedge to establish.
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