Tax Intelligence & Optimization Platform for Retail Traders

My roles as a founder:
- Product designer (UX/IA/DS): flows, prototypes, DS library
- Researcher: interviews, synthesis, insight statements, archetypes
- Product operator (founder): roadmap, experiment design, GTM funnel, prioritization, decision memos, AI assisted building
- Marketing designer & Copywriting
Team:
- Karen: Co-founder, marketing, GTM, Management, Business reltations
- Mark: Tax advisor, domain expert, consultant
- June: CTO, backend
- Ithai: Front end
- Vin: Marketing, GTM
Part 1 - Discover (What’s true?)
Prologue:
While leading user research at RIDE (qual interviews with traders/investors), I repeatedly heard the same anxiety: “I made money, but I don’t know how much I get to keep after tax.” I treated it as an opportunity space and later validated it independently outside RIDE
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