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Job Genie: from AI market research to a working MVP

The ToolTwist Team3 min readAI delivery

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.

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.