We built an tool for DevOps that wasn't useful. Here’s what we are building instead.

We spent months building an AI agent for Terraform. When we did user interviews with SREs and DevOps engineers, their reaction was pretty unanimous: "This looks great but not very useful to me." This completely changed the trajectory of our startup. Here is the story of how we accidentally built the wrong product for the wrong people, and how it led us to build Grafos v2: a tool designed to help founders and SWEs survive the transition from MVP to production-grade. It started as a visualisation tool During a hackathon a few months ago, we built the foundational blocks of Grafos.ai. Initially, it was just an infrastructure visualisation tool. As a frontend engineer, I knew nothing about Terraform. I had to go through a hardcore introduction to IaC in just one week. By week two, we had built this: It was, let's say, "rough" but this had potential. As far as we knew, there were only a couple of decent infra visualisation tools around — Brainboard and Pluralith. The latter wasn't even main