Isn't this just ChatGPT or Claude with memory?+
ChatGPT and Claude remember you. BuildFR remembers your team. Memory
in consumer LLMs is pinned to a login. In BuildFR, sales, support, PM, UXR, and engineering read from
and write to the same library. It connects to the tools where customer signal actually lives (Gong,
Zendesk, Salesforce, Dovetail) and every spec ships with citations, so six months later someone can
answer "why did we build this?" without scheduling a meeting.
Couldn't I just wire this up with MCP servers myself?+
Technically, yes. Some teams will. MCP gives an LLM access to your
tools; it doesn't give your team a library. Three things MCPs don't do on their own:
(1) persistence: MCP is a live query per session; there's no compounding evidence graph across
months, no re-ranking as new signal comes in. (2) multiplayer: MCP connections are pinned to a
user; BuildFR is a shared workspace where sales, support, PM, UXR and eng all read from the same
library. (3) the loop: BuildFR links each theme → spec → PR → usage, so six months later you
can answer "did this help?" If you want to plumb together Gong + Zendesk + Claude + a vector DB + an
evaluator + a shared schema and keep it running, great. BuildFR runs on the same MCP rails; the
difference is what happens after the fetch. Everything lands in a shared library that re-ranks,
cites, and closes the loop.
What happens to my customer data?+
Honest answer: we're pre-launch and small, so we're not pretending to have SOC 2 we
don't have. During the beta we start from public signal only (App Store, G2, Reddit, HN) unless
you explicitly share private data. Before GA: bring-your-own-key so your data never touches our LLM
tenant, single-tenant hosting for enterprise, and SOC 2 when we can justify it.
Which tools does it integrate with today?+
Day one: file uploads for transcripts, ticket exports, research reports, survey CSVs,
plus the public signal we seed your library from. Your call recordings (Gong or Zoom), tickets
(Zendesk), CRM notes (Salesforce), Jira issues, and the Google Drive where your docs, sheets, and
decks live, comments and change history included, connect over MCP; during beta we operate the
connection for you, so connecting means granting access, not installing anything. It's the same stack
large product orgs already run: Atlassian and GitHub ship official MCP servers, and the rest are
rolling theirs out. Dovetail, Intercom, and Notion follow. Tell us which tools you use; that's the
build order.
When does the self-serve product launch?+
The private beta is open now, in small batches. Your library is seeded within 48
hours of access: themes, quotes, and a draft spec. Self-serve is targeting Q3 2026. We're keeping the
first 20 teams close so the product ends up actually doing what they need.
How much will it cost?+
Free while we're in beta. At launch, roughly $79/mo for solo PMs, $149/seat for teams,
enterprise by conversation. Nothing locked in. Beta users get the first year at a steep discount.
Who's behind it?+
One person. Nimit, an ex-PM who got tired of being the human integration layer. Every
beta library is read and written by me, not a bot. The founder letter above is the longer
version.