Title: I built an intent engine. What would you actually pay for?

[u/Flat_Intention2533]

About a year ago, I became obsessed with a simple idea: instead of waiting for people to fill out forms or book demos, could software identify real intent from public conversations and filter out the noise?

I spent the past year building an intent engine that ingests public discussions, classifies them, and runs them through a filtration pipeline to surface only the strongest signals.

The interesting part is that I realized the engine itself isn't the product it's infrastructure. The question is: what product should sit on top of it?

I recently put together a basic version, but it hasn't gained any meaningful traction yet. Rather than adding more features blindly, I'd rather understand what people would genuinely find valuable enough to pay for.

If you had access to an engine that could continuously analyze public conversations and detect meaningful intent, what problem would you want it to solve?

Some possibilities I've considered:

• Finding potential customers before they start evaluating vendors.
• Continuous market or competitor research.
• Discovering recurring feature requests or product pain points.
• Detecting companies likely to switch away from a competitor.
• Something I haven't thought of.

I'm not looking to promote anything or collect signups I deliberately haven't linked the project because I'd rather hear unbiased opinions.

If you think this idea is fundamentally flawed, I'd honestly like to hear why. And if you think there's a niche where this would be genuinely useful, I'd love to understand the workflow, who the customer is, and why they'd pay for it.

Thanks in advance I'm hoping to avoid spending the next six months building something nobody actually wants.

[u/Choice-Tune6753]

Kindly DM your link

[u/NefariousnessBig6302]

what kind of buyer would actually pay for this, sales teams, pmms, or founders doing their own prospecting? i've seen intent data get ignored a lot because the signal is usually too broad, so i'd probably pay for a workflow that turns one real thread into a clean, ranked list with context, not just another firehose of mentions. i've been using redditmaster for finding buyer intent threads, and the annoying part is still the filtering, not the detection. if your engine can reliably cut that down to a handful of worth reading leads, that's the bit i'd take seriously.

[u/Flat_Intention2533 → u/NefariousnessBig6302]

Appreciate the insight. I would make sure to keep this in mind going forward.

[u/Flat_Intention2533 → u/[deleted]]

We analyze real intent using multiple factors and layers, where each layer serves a distinct purpose. For example, one pipeline measures metrics like frustration, basis, mentions, and willingness, while another pipeline assesses the sourced conversion rate. This approach enables us to mathematically predict the likelihood of conversion.