Our ultimate goal is to find PMF, and for that we needed a solution that would help us communicate with our users through our platform without spending time on coding. By utilizing UserGuiding’s surveys and segmentation, we are able to do just that.”
Arturo Henao
Founder and CEO
FOUNDED
2023
COUNTRY
USA
SIZE
1-10
MARKET
AI
COMPANY
Straico is a generative artificial intelligence platform that gathers all AI models in one place to generate content and visuals. From OpenAI’s GPT-4o to Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5, it offers several AI models with different specialties, eliminating the need to switch platforms.
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How Straico leveraged UserGuiding to achieve a whopping 52% product-market fit

Renk Mert
Content Marketing Specialist
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October 17, 2024
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Summary
Straico faced a common pain point for early-stage startups: finding product-market fit.
They started looking for a solution to help them communicate with their users more effectively, eliminating user frustration and gauging customer happiness to overcome this challenge.
Before coming across UserGuiding, Straico tried utilizing popups to show users the rope, but these popups didn’t yield the results they were looking for.
After UserGuiding, Straico employed guides to introduce new users to the platform and surveys to determine their satisfaction with their experience, scoring a promising 52% of happy customers.

Straico is an artificial intelligence startup that allows users to compare multiple outputs from various AI models, enabling them to understand which model is better for the task.

Straico faced one of the most common challenges for an early-stage startup: identifying and reaching product-market fit.

To determine whether they correctly identified a market need and built a good solution around it, they employed UserGuiding’s surveys and segmentation features.

Only after collecting survey results, with 52% of users voting positively, did they realize they achieved product-market fit, as the 40% rule for product-market fit finds a business successful if at least 40% of the surveyed customers express disappointment over a no longer accessible product.

Let’s see how they did it:

The issue of correctly identifying and achieving product-market fit

Straico faced a specific pain point as an early-stage startup: finding product-market fit.

Before starting the production phase and going all in, they needed to determine whether they would satisfy the market demand and occupy a solid place in the competition.

Otherwise, the product they created wouldn’t be viable enough to address and solve a problem; they would end up investing a lot of time, money, and other resources in a product that had little chance of surviving in the market with the existing products around.

That’s why they started looking for a solution that could help them imagine themselves in their customers' shoes and overcome these challenges.

This solution had to provide them with valuable insights into user behavior and ensure continuous customer engagement.

Alongside the product-market fit issue, they saw the need to communicate with users through the platform to ensure they understand how to benefit from it and prevent them from leaving without trying it out.

Thus, they decided to adopt a solution that would help them achieve product-market fit and effectively onboard their new users.

What's the next step?

They first opted to try a website popup builder to create popups that could show users around and notify them whenever needed.

Soon enough, they realized that popups were useful only when they needed to alert users and underline specific actions, but they couldn’t guide them throughout the whole experience.

That’s when they understood that the next solution had to provide users with an experience without interruptions, regardless of the use case.

Researching through the web, they came across UserGuiding, a no-code product adoption platform with various capabilities on a cost-friendly structure.

At that moment, they knew that this platform would help them solve all of their problems in-app, starting from user onboarding to product-market fit.

After implementing UserGuiding, they benefited from...

1) Detailed Insights

I check user insights almost every day to analyze user behavior, which is especially important for retaining new users. Seeing a disengaged new user’s actions after signing up enables me to target them effectively.”

Through UserGuiding’s Users page, Straico was able to dig deeper into user activity.

They segmented users based on data attributes to see how each user profile was interacting with the platform.

They looked into metrics that mattered to them to improve user interactions, including:

  • how many chats that were created during a specific time period,
  • which prompt templates were used by new users,
  • how many attachments they added to their chats,
  • how many coins were spent in total.

User details enabled Straico to segment and divide user groups, which helped them target disengaged users and ultimately helped them increase user activation.

2) Product-Market Fit Surveys

Recently, our biggest hurdle has been finding our product-market fit, which is where we used UserGuiding's in-app surveys to create a detailed product-market fit survey right inside of our app.”

Thanks to UserGuiding’s product-market fit surveys, Straico obtained valuable insights into customer happiness and saw opportunities for improvement.

To obtain such information, they needed only to set up an in-app survey targeting lifetime users, asking how they would feel if Straico was no longer available.

The answers section included the options below:

  • I can't imagine my workflow without Straico!
  • Straico is valuable, but I could manage without it.
  • I use Straico occasionally, but it's not essential for me.

Upon gauging users’ dependency on their product, they saw that 52% of respondents indicated they couldn't imagine their workflow without Straico—a very promising percentage for product-market fit.

3) Efficient In-App Communication

One of our main problems was communicating with our users through our platform without coding. UserGuiding enabled us to inform users about certain changes and ask them to take specific action.”

To create a continuous communication loop between users and them, Straico adopted a transparent approach with announcement modals.

Utilizing UserGuiding’s announcement modals, Straico contacted users directly to inform them about what was going on.

Sometimes, it was about outages from AI providers; sometimes, it was about promotions.

They got most of the output by employing this feature to notify users and boost new feature adoption as they launched a new feature.

4) Interactive Guides

Around one to ten new users just leave without doing anything. They don’t know how to proceed, and that's why we implemented interactive onboarding guides inside the platform to help our new users understand how we are different from similar platforms.”

Not letting one single user slip by, Straico employed UserGuiding’s interactive guides to help users understand and utilize every feature they offer.

Creating step-by-step guides that benefited from different UX elements and patterns helped Straico get users familiar with the platform's functionality.

That’s why Straico opted to build an introductory guide that helped new users onboard by explaining how to utilize the platform and how it was different from other solutions in the market.

Later, they made this guide non-skippable and ensured every new user had a great user experience, thanks to progress indicators and highlights.

5) Resource Center

The introductory onboarding guide stays in the resource center for easy access. The resource center also includes sections with details regarding each AI model to help users understand how they work, and the product updates page button to follow updates easily.”

Straico faced the challenge of having various AI models on its platform: user frustration.

As each AI model had different attributes, users had to either have background knowledge on the matter or be taught.

For the latter, Straico created an in-app resource center using UserGuiding and facilitated the learning process by providing special sections with the pros and cons of each model.

Thanks to these sections, users were able to find information on the models and make more precise decisions before running prompts.

6) Product Updates

As a developing product, we constantly roll out new features and updates. UserGuiding's product updates page has helped us effectively communicate any changes to our product; we also get feedback for our big updates to measure impact."

With the help of UserGuiding’s product changelog feature, Straico built a solid foundation for effectively communicating any changes to its product.

Straico displayed newly rolled-out features and updates on the updates page, what was changed or fixed, and new AI models that were added.

Upon reading about the latest releases, users could leave feedback in the form of emojis and text, which helped Straico measure the impact of the updates one by one.

This feature helped them increase visibility and promote each new feature or update organically.

Thanks to UserGuiding...

Committed to bootstrapping the early stages of their company until they achieve Product-Market Fit, Straico utilized UserGuiding to directly interact, listen, and monitor their users.

This strategy enabled them to avoid carrying out the growth metrics set by venture capitalists and focus on engaging with their users as a whole community.

Gaining invaluable insights into how users engage with their platform, what features they frequently use, and what areas need improvement, Straico was able to analyze user behaviour and find their product-market fit.

In numbers, Straico found out that 52% of their users were content with the service they were getting, and their workflow would be disrupted if it was no longer available.

As the generative AI landscape is highly competitive, making a unique value proposition was essential for Straico; during this journey, UserGuiding was instrumental to help them understand user behavior and effectively communicate through in-app guides, dialogs, and more.

UserGuiding helps us greet new users, explain to them how our platform works, and show them the core values of all our features. With interactive guides, we take users to different parts of our product and show them how to get value.”

Long story short...

Right after launch, Straico experienced low engagement with users in need of a convenient way to communicate with customers.

With onboarding checklists and interactive guides, Straico enabled users to explore different parts of the platform and showed them how to get value from the core features.

Following the lean startup methodology, Straico created a detailed product-market fit survey right inside the application using UserGuiding's in-app surveys.

They had a very high completion rate because it was right where the users used the product and generated a lot of insights that boosted their progress.

If you're like Straico and in need of a solution, UserGuiding is one click away 👈

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One of our main problems was communicating with our users through our platform without coding. UserGuiding enabled us to inform users about certain changes and ask them to take specific action.”

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