# Job Genie: from AI market research to a working MVP

Using AI to validate the market, choose an architecture, integrate six gateways and payment services, and ship a Flutter MVP for Job Genie an SMS-blaster for last-minute temp recruitment.

By The ToolTwist Team · 2026-03-14

URL: https://tooltwist.com/insights/job-genie-ai-market-research-to-mvp

**Job Genie** is an SMS-blaster for last-minute recruitment of temporary labour. When employees are unable to turn up to work, a business owner can use this app to send an offer of work to known lists of temporary staff via SMS essentially a bidding process. For the business owner this is a mobile app. For the temp staff it is a UI-less application based on SMS.

We used a pitch deck to perform market research for this type of product, then to choose a suitable architecture, and then see if AI could choose a good combination of gateways and payment services (6 in total), understand the 3rd party API documentation, and combine it all into a mobile app for iOS and Android, and a web interface.

The research material produced was excellent, and a working version of the app was created with minimal effort.

![The Job Genie mobile app showing the Shifts Dashboard and a "Post a New Shift" form.](/images/insights/job-genie-app.png)

## The challenge

- **AI market research / validation**
- **Does AI understand API documentation?**

The expected effort was **N/A** the original estimate was three months.

## Development with AI

- **2 days to 50% MVP** (will proceed to market)
- **AI suitability: 100%**

## Technology

Flutter, Twilio, Stripe, Onfido, Inngest, Sentry.

AI approach: **GitHub SpecKit**.