AI-Compressed Validation Sprints, for Founders Who Already Ship.
Jed Tabaczynski · Past the Prompt · Chiang Mai
DCMEX26 · 8 May 2026 · Don Diego 4
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Last time, in the pre-conference
4 prompts. Working app. 30 minutes.
Today: how to make sure you're building the right thing.
A note before we start
I run Past the Prompt - workshops in Chiang Mai for non-technical people building with AI.
19 years in software. Last 6 months in agents. I help builders ship the right thing.
The Google Ventures sprint
5 senior people.
1 week.
1 conference room.
~$50,000 when you price the time. Most founders never afforded it.
Why it works (when it works)
Talk to customers. Watch what they do.
Decide together.
The principle is older than design sprints. The sprint just made it executable in a week.
What changed
The new shape of the loop
Humans on one end. Agents on the other.
The loop runs between them.
Agents compress synthesis. Humans stay human.
Cadence
1 hour.
Weekly.
Coffee.
A weekly habit. Cheap to run. Hard to stop.
Three examples · 14 years · same lesson
2012 · 2018 · 2025
Warsaw. Düsseldorf. Chiang Mai. The principle didn't change. The speed did.
Bright Sight · Warsaw · 2012
A small Polish startup, building an app for visually impaired people.
A café in Warsaw. I'm sitting with a man who is blind. He's holding the prototype phone. I ask him a simple question.
"What's the one feature you'd want on this phone when we hand it to you?"
Bright Sight · Warsaw · 2012
The question I've asked since
What is your alarm clock?
Five minutes of watching beats five weeks of guessing.
Düsseldorf · 2018
Glass tower. One of Germany's largest insurance companies. Top engineers. Top product people.
They had built a claims system that was, by their standards, beautiful.
Every edge case covered. Every option exposed. Twenty years of compliance baked in.
Düsseldorf · 2018
What we came back with
One question. At a time.
The sprint compressed when execs watched real users instead of arguing.
Capyvite · Chiang Mai · last 6 months
I wanted to find the friction in the signup process.
An agent works the data and verifies the patterns. Every morning, before I'm awake, the week's signups are already summarized: conversions, drop-offs, signals to chase.
What the data kept saying
WhatsApp. · Telegram. · iMessage.
"I'm not going to leave my chat to fill out a form."
- what users said when I asked them after my own events
