Experimenters Edge with Leslie Barry

Rapid Validation in the Age of AI

A practical online Lab with Leslie Barry on 27 October.

Sep 18 • Leslie Barry

What Work Does Your Product Make Disappear?

A practical way to test whether your product is making the customer's job easier.

Sep 10 • Leslie Barry

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Vibe Coding Is a Backlog of Demand

The unofficial AI tools people make at work can show you where the real friction is.

Sep 4 • Leslie Barry

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August 2026

How We’re Compressing Three Hours of Workshop Time Per Idea

The Rapidly MCP creates company-relevant ideas, Lean Canvases, hypotheses and experiment designs, giving workshops a faster starting point.

Aug 21 • Leslie Barry

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Keeping people at the centre of ideation

At GembaCon, we used AI-assisted Pretotyping to test customer interest while keeping the creative work with the people in the room.

Aug 17 • Leslie Barry

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July 2026

Mark Pincus wants AI to be a failure machine

He's right. Mine generated 46 ideas for real companies in week one and killed more than half of them.

Jul 7 • Leslie Barry

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Rapidly’s New AI Idea Generator Is Live

Generate stronger company-specific ideas, then automatically move straight through lean canvas, pretotyping, and hypotheses to start experimenting fast.

Jul 4

Another Inflection Point

I handed ploy.ai a PDF and it spun up two live sites in an afternoon: a few months of work in about six hours. Here's the experiment, and the real…

Jul 2 • Leslie Barry

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June 2026

RIP Experimentation, Hello Validation!

We're using AI to build one idea in three months. It should be failing a hundred a day. - Mark Pincus

Jun 18 • Leslie Barry

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May 2026

The long tail of ideas you can't get to

A free Idea Validator, and the capacity problem behind every backlog.

May 21 • Leslie Barry

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The innovation unlock is people, not AI

Where AI fits, what teams actually need, and the rhythm that makes it stick.

May 11 • Leslie Barry

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April 2026

AI Makes Building Faster. Pretotyping Tells You What to Build.

AI compresses the obvious. Humans apply judgement. Together, you get to evidence faster without skipping the parts that matter.

Apr 13 • Leslie Barry

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