#389 – How Tal Peretz questioned the AI playbook and created results competitors can't match

S9E389 - #389 – How Tal Peretz questioned the AI playbook and created results competitors can't match

Published: January 14, 2026

Duration: 43:27

A story about choosing what others avoid—and creating competitive advantage no one can copy.

This episode is for sales-led SaaS founders wondering why their AI product investments are not creating the competitive edge they expected.

Most SaaS companies race to add AI features and wonder why nothing changes.

Tal Peretz, CEO of Onfire, took the opposite path. Before writing a single line of code, he interviewed 275 revenue leaders. Then he spent months building a proprietary data layer from the public web—Reddit, Stack Overflow, Discord—tracking 50 million engineers. Only after that foundation was so...