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How Experienced AI Builders Think About Real Problems
Just Curious hosts in-depth conversations with leading AI practitioners who design, deploy, and scale systems inside real businesses. These interviews surface how expert strategists and builders evaluate tradeoffs, constraints, and paths forward. The same thinking that informs the perspectives shared through our Mini-RFP process.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Just Curious helps private equity firms and middle-market teams pressure-test AI initiatives before committing to a partner, budget, or roadmap.
We surface multiple independent perspectives from experienced AI builders so you can see real options, tradeoffs, and risks—early.
Most AI projects fail before the work starts, because teams are forced to choose a path with limited visibility into real alternatives.
Just Curious exists to give teams decision clarity before momentum locks them in.
Traditional processes push you toward a single recommended solution.
Just Curious shows you multiple credible ways forward, independently sourced, without selling implementation or steering you toward a preferred vendor.
No slideware.
No sales pressure. No lock-in.
A Mini-RFP is a short, structured brief describing a business problem, diligence question, or AI opportunity.
We anonymize it and share it with relevant AI practitioners, who respond with:
Distinct approaches
Tradeoffs and risks
High-level timelines and budget ranges
You keep full control over what happens next.
No.
Many teams use Just Curious only to pressure-test ideas, validate internal plans, or reset projects already underway.
Engaging a partner is optional, and always your choice.
No.
Your brief is anonymized, and no one contacts you unless you choose to engage.
This is designed to reduce noise, not create it.
If one or more approaches stand out, we can facilitate direct conversations with the teams behind them.
You’re free to explore further, or walk away with better context than you started with.
Yes.
Submitting a Mini-RFP and receiving perspectives is free for operators and investors.
If you later engage a partner, commercial terms are discussed directly with them.
Private equity funds evaluating AI for diligence or value creation.
Portfolio company leadership teams under pressure to “do something with AI.”
Operators who want clarity before committing budget or political capital.
If the decision feels expensive, visible, or hard to unwind—this is for you.
We don’t sell software.
We don’t push preferred partners.
We don’t run implementation projects.
We don’t optimize for deal volume.
Our only job is decision quality.