PreBriefed: Why I Built My First MicroSaaS (And What ChatGPT Can't Do)
Eine ehrliche Build-Log-Notiz darüber, warum ich PreBriefed gebaut habe — und warum ChatGPT, Perplexity und LinkedIn das Briefing-Problem nicht lösen.
The Real Problem
Executive briefing preparation consumes significant time. Before attending meetings with unfamiliar participants, professionals face:
- 3+ hours researching 15 people across scattered sources
- Difficulty recognizing attendees at events
- Information scattered across LinkedIn, company websites, and news articles
Why Existing Solutions Fall Short
ChatGPT produces hallucinated company names, outdated information, and lacks image integration.
Perplexity requires individual searches per person with no structured output.
LinkedIn demands opening multiple tabs and manual compilation.
None of them solve the actual workflow problem — they solve adjacent problems and leave the user to glue everything together by hand.
The Solution: PreBriefed
The tool generates structured briefings in 60 seconds from participant names and companies, featuring:
- Professional photos for recognition
- Career background and current role
- Recent news and announcements
- AI-generated talking points based on recent developments
Technical Implementation
The system performs multi-source web searches, validates images against company information, fact-checks through multiple sources, and structures output into briefing formats with PDF export capability.
Key challenges addressed:
- Image validation — ensuring correct person identification (not just any person with the same name)
- Preventing LLM hallucinations through multi-source verification (no quote without source)
- Generating relevant talking points beyond generic conversation starters
MCP-Integration
The tool ships with a Model Context Protocol server — usable directly from Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and other MCP-capable clients. That means: meeting prep happens inside your existing tool chain, not on yet another web tab.
Pricing & Features
Free tier supports up to 3 participants. Pro subscription (€9.99/month) enables unlimited briefings with PDF export and history storage.
What This Build Taught Me
Building PreBriefed surfaced something I hadn’t fully grasped when I started: AI tools succeed not by having better models — but by orchestrating the right workflow.
ChatGPT can do everything PreBriefed does, theoretically. But “theoretically” isn’t useful at 14:30 when you’ve got 30 minutes before a meeting with people you’ve never met. The product is the workflow, not the model.
That’s the bet that turned PreBriefed from a side experiment into a paying product — and the principle behind everything else under PRYME.