Many of these are due to cultural contexts. For example, I would trust sushi from 7-11 in Japan over most grocery store sushi in the US.
> Western sources suggest that eating sushi while pregnant is little short of stabbing yourself in the abdomen with a sharp knife, Japanese sources explicitly recommend sushi as a light and healthy meal
In my experience (arthritis), specialists typically won't take direct appointments without a referral. They don't want to triage the 90%, and most offices are booked weeks-to-months in advance...
Training a 2nd agent as a qualitative evaluator works pretty well "LLM-as-a-judge". You train it with labeled critiques from experts, iterate a few times, then point it to your ground truth human-labelled-data ("golden dataset"). The quantitative output metric is human2ai alignment on the golden dataset, mix that with some expert judgment about the critique output by the ai as well.
Works pretty well for me, where you can typically get within the range of human2human variance.
> If Uber can do it, especially if they can do it profitably, I'm at a loss as to why a city government could not accomplish the same
City governments generally have stricter requirements for whom they have to service. Private companies can fire their pathological customers more easily.
If houses sold for a lot less, there would probably be fewer built, which would drive up the housing prices due to increasing scarcity. But now people can’t take on debt to buy them, so everything just sort of… stagnates.
Have you considered your price point? I work for bigger companies, we would never go with someone whose base plan is so cheap. This is because it takes a lot of effort to make a purchase, and going to accounting for $10/month for something as important as regulatory compliance or antifraud just doesn’t vibe.
Smaller vendors in your price target might have the budget but not the mindshare to implement.
Yes. It’s a mixed message to both be a low end provider or be an enterprise product. Maybe it makes sense but I think it might confuse any purchasing people I talk to.
Folks want to fit you into a neat bucket. If you don’t fit in, it causes emotional discomfort. This can be true even if strictly not the case in your pov - but customers perception and emotional response might explain some of your difficulties.
CloudFlare for example basically gives it all away, except to the people who make so much money that they want to pay a lot for a few niceties.
