The Most Expensive Version of an AI Product Isn't the One With the Most Features. It's the One That Actually Knows Which Ones You Need.
Premium positioning in AI products has defaulted, fairly consistently, to more — more features, more integrations, more capability surface area exposed to the user. This is an easy story to tell and a straightforward one to build toward, and it treats "more" as functionally equivalent to "better," which for this specific kind of product isn't reliably true.
A product with an enormous feature list places the burden of figuring out which features actually matter entirely on the user — a burden that's easy to underestimate, because most people, most of the time, don't have a clear, articulated sense of which specific capability they actually need at any given moment, only a general sense that something should help.
The genuinely premium version of this kind of product isn't the one with the longest feature list. It's the one that has already done the harder work of knowing which specific thing this specific person needs right now — a capability that requires actual understanding of the person, not just breadth of what the system is technically able to do.
A feature list is relatively cheap to build and expensive, in attention and confusion, for a user to navigate well. Knowing which feature a specific person actually needs, without making them figure it out themselves, is the rarer and more expensive capability — and it's the one that actually deserves the premium positioning.
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Momar Lissa Ndiaye ("MLN") is the Founder & CEO of weyoga Inc., a Delaware company. — weyoga.ai · mln@weyoga.ai