The Message-Market Fit Podcast · 2026-01-14 · 1h 22m
The foundation of this episode rests on a critical challenge that most early-stage B2B SaaS companies face but few talk about honestly: how do you find positioning clarity when your market is being invented in real time? Echowin launched in November 2022, before ChatGPT was public. At that point, voice AI was still using keyword-based natural language processing - the "press one for billing, press two for sales" systems we all hate. Kaushal had early access to GPT-3 and built a voice assistant on his Apple Watch. The lightbulb moment came when he watched his mom, a small business owner, drop everything to answer a phone call while serving a client. Kaushal describes the moment: "She was with her client randomly gets a phone call, she has to drop everything she's doing, run to the phone, and she was speaking in a hurry with a person on the other side of the phone call. There was a lot of tension building up. I could see the client that was waiting, like they were clearly like, 'What's going on?' My mom was speaking in a rush. I'm pretty sure the person on the other side of the phone call felt that too.
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