Art of the Pivot: Testing the waters with Avatar Factory

We've been talking to everyone we can about Talking Books, and listening carefully to their feedback. While we love the idea that there is buried treasure in all the books already written, and that wisdom can be applied to guide conversations, people seem to get consistently confused about what a talking "book" means.

We built a big spreadsheet of metaphors, ChatGPT'd for ideas on alternatives, and asked everyone (and their mothers) to uncover the better alternative.

And then Derek asked his son Sidney. Without hesitation, Sidney said "Avatars".

We took a few days to brew on this as we prepared for the Smarter Dating with AI Meetup we were hosting. Based on feedback from the Meetup and much deliberation, we decided to try out the avatar angle. We bought the AvatarFactory.AI domain and put a web app and this blog up.

Early feedback on the change has been very positive... let's see where this goes!