What Is a Decision Layer? The New Category Above Feedback Tools
Feedback tools tell you what customers say. A decision layer tells you what to build next. Why collection, synthesis, and decision are three separate jobs.
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Essays on the part of product management that tooling keeps missing: not collecting feedback or shipping code, but deciding what to build and defending the call afterward.
Feedback tools tell you what customers say. A decision layer tells you what to build next. Why collection, synthesis, and decision are three separate jobs.
There is a distinct phase in the lifecycle of every B2B SaaS company where the old ways of building product suddenly stop working.
Engineering used to be the constraint on shipping software. Now it's deciding what to build — and most teams have no system for it.
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