Aren't I supposed to talk to users myself?

You are, and this makes those calls better. The problem with founder calls is picking who to call. You end up with whoever replied, which is rarely who mattered. AskEngine covers everyone and flags the conversations worth having in person. You go in knowing what they already said.

What's the interview like for the participant?

They click a link and talk for a few minutes. No signup, nothing to schedule. It asks follow-ups, so "the export was confusing" turns into a question about what they expected to happen.

When should I use this instead of analytics?

Use both. Your funnel shows you people abandoning step three. It can't tell you they thought step three was optional. That part has to come from asking them.

How many interviews before it tells me anything?

You can read any single interview straight away. A few interviews give you themes within a study. Signals across studies take more. When the evidence is thin it says so, instead of handing you a confident paragraph built on two people.

$5 an interview. You buy credits and spend one per interview. No seats, no subscriptions. Test interviews are free and credits don't expire.

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Hi Sam. How does your team share numbers from the dashboard?

Honestly? Screenshots. I paste them into Slack every Monday.

What makes screenshots easier?

The dashboard needs a login and half the team never looks. Slack they actually read.

If a report posted itself to Slack every Monday, would you still screenshot?

Probably not. It's the most boring part of my week.

Count beliefs, not anecdotes.

Signal	Trajectory	Evidence	Status
Dashboards get shared as screenshots#SIG-12	Rising	JRT+5	Actionable
Numbers get rechecked in spreadsheets#SIG-9	Rising	MKB+2	Established
Setup stalls without an engineer#SIG-7	Stable	DNH+6	Established
Alerts get muted in week one#SIG-4	Declining	GSV+9	Validated
Nobody trusts the search bar#SIG-15	New	HN	Emerging

See who said it, and who disagreed.

High ConfidenceHigh Confidence

Let teams schedule a report straight to Slack

Teams screenshot dashboards into Slack every week because half the company never logs in. Seven of eight said they’d stop if reports posted themselves.

Signal: Dashboards get shared as screenshots#SIG-12
Evidence: 7 Agreed · 1 Disagreed

Dana

“I paste the same three charts into Slack every Monday. That’s the whole workflow.”

Query the belief layer from anywhere.

Interviews

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Workspace

Signals, recommendations, and gaps land in your morning briefing.

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MCP

Your agents query the belief layer mid-task, from any MCP client.

POST

/v1/ask

GET

/v1/signals

GET

/v1/evidence

POST

/v1/evidence/search

GET

/v1/recommendations

GET

/v1/studies

POST

/v1/action-cards/:id/resolve

API

The same beliefs over REST, pulled into your own product.

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