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Yaroslav Semeniuk
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Every agency project I touched as a dev followed the same pattern.
Founder explains the vision to Sales. Sales packages it through their own understanding for the Project Owner. PO interprets it for the PM. PM rewrites it for developers.
By the time I'm reading the Jira ticket, I'm building someone's telephone-game version of what the founder actually needed.
Freelancers skip the chain but create a different problem – you become the PM & PM. Every decision routes through you. That $40/hour rate quietly becomes your most expensive hire when you factor in your calendar.
DIY with AI tools? I've seen the outputs. Visually functional, technically empty. Like assembling IKEA furniture that technically stands but wobbles under any real weight.
At YARSY, we run a different structure: one Product Lead owns your project end-to-end. No handoffs. They talk to you, they validate assumptions, they orchestrate the build, they ship, and responsible for the result.
Borrowed from McKinsey consulting, not from agencies.
AI accelerates the work, but humans make the main decisions.
If you're pre-seed or seed stage and curious whether this fits, we have a 10-minute CustDev form. Fill it out and get either a free landing page concept or a ready-to-use product requirements document. No call required to see if we're the right fit. Review the results.
Drop me «CustDev» in comments.
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