Zarathustra – AI-powered sales research in 60 seconds

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Zarathustra – AI-powered sales research in 60 seconds

Hi all, I'm a first-time startup founder genuinely looking for your brutal honesty and sincere feedback. I’ve been building a tool that’s designed to save salespeople time on company research. Essentially, I created it to solve a real pain point my team had internally during sales outreach—we were wasting tons of time researching companies and prospects to craft personalized messages. So, I built something that does it in under 60 seconds. After some friends encouraged me to share it publicly, I made it available for others to use because this problem seemed to resonate with a lot of people in subreddits and casual conversations. The tool works like this: you type in any company link, optionally share a little about what you do, and it generates a detailed sales report for free. The sales report includes things like key insights, target audience, products and services, engagement strategies etc. While our internal team loves it and it saves us a ton of time, something feels off since we launched it publicly. People are trying it, but engagement and retention is much lower than we expected. I’d love to get your thoughts on a few things: * Is company research actually a significant pain point for salespeople? * Are we attracting the wrong users? * What’s your brutally honest feedback? What’s good, what’s bad, and what could be better about the idea? If you have a few minutes to give me your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it. Please don’t hold back—I value the truth more than comfort right now. Thanks so much for your insights!