AI Startup Strategy: A Blueprint to Building Successful Artificial Intelligence Products from Inception to Exit

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A. MahendraAI Startup Strategyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9502-1_4

4. Product-Market Validation for AI as a Service (AIaaS)

Adhiguna Mahendra¹  

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Nodeflux, Jakarta, Indonesia

 

The previous chapter taught us how to validate AI-first SaaS with the business user as the target market. In this chapter, we will learn more about AI as a Service (AIaaS), which targets the developers’ market, and how to validate its market.

Building AIaaS is a natural business expansion from AI-first SaaS. The main idea is to break down the AI models used in our AI-first SaaS, productize them, and sell them separately to developers as APIs or SDKs.

Building AIaaS is easier ...