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Vera reads full Reddit threads, comment trees, and live X search — then quotes the exact people asking for your feature, with links you can click.
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Vera is a Linear agent that pressure-tests your tickets against Reddit, X, and competitor changelogs — and posts a verdict with real evidence in about 90 seconds. Mention it. That's the whole workflow.
Linear — dam-demo
DAM-42 · Bulk tagging for assets
Roadmap · Q3 candidates
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MKTodo·Priority: High·Q3 candidates
Marketing keeps asking for a way to tag hundreds of assets at once. Proposal: multi-select in the library view + “apply tags” bulk action. Do our users actually need this, or is it one loud customer?
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Maya K.2 min ago
@Vera validate this before we commit it to the sprint
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VeraAgentresearched for 87sBUILDdemand 8/10
Demand evidence
“Tagging 400 assets one by one is the reason we're shopping for a new DAM. Bulk actions or we walk.”
reddit · r/DigitalAssetMgmt · ▲ 212 · 47 comments
“every DAM demo: 'yes we have tags!' cool, can I apply them to 2,000 files at once? …silence”
x.com · 1.4k views · 38 reposts
Competitor coverage
- AirShippedchangelog · Mar 2026
- BynderNot foundno roadmap mention
Recommendation: Strong, repeated demand across both communities, and Air shipped it in March — the market has validated this for you. Build it, and lead with speed on large libraries.
Every verdict is built from
Linear@mentionRedditfull threadsXlive searchChangelogsscrapedClaudesynthesis
Fresh on every run
reddit · r/DigitalAssetMgmt
“Bulk actions or we walk. Tagging 400 assets one by one is insane.”
▲ 212 · 47 comments
DAM-42 · comment
@Vera validate this before we commit it to the sprint
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monitor
bynder.com/roadmap
No change in 14 days
3 issues watching
DAM-73 · comment
@Vera is anyone actually asking for SSO on the free tier?
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DAM-42 · Bulk tagging
BUILD
demand 8/10
x.com
“cool, can I apply tags to 2,000 files at once? …silence”
1.4k views · 38 reposts
reddit · r/ProductManagement
“We shipped it. Nobody used it. Nobody had ever asked for it.”
▲ 89 · 31 comments
x.com
“every DAM demo: 'yes we have tags!' — no one has bulk apply”
812 views · 12 reposts
monitor
air.inc/changelog
Shipped: bulk exports
matched DAM-51
DAM-67 · AI mood boards
SKIP
demand 2/10
DAM-58 · Version diffs
INVESTIGATE
demand 5/10
monitor
brandfolder.com/changelog
Shipped: duplicate detection
matched DAM-33
Every ticket, checked against the real world
An agent that reads, scores, and watches for you
Vera turns hours of manual validation into a single @mention — deep research, a scored verdict, and standing competitor monitors, all inside Linear.
A verdict you can act on
Build, Investigate, or Skip — with a 0–10 demand score and a one-paragraph rationale. Weak tickets die before sprint planning, not after launch.
Veraon DAM-67 · AI mood boardsSKIPdemand 2/10
Zero organic mentions across Reddit and X in the last 12 months. No competitor lists it on a changelog or roadmap. The demand is internal, not market. Recommend skipping — this was six scoped weeks.
researched for 84s · 0 quotes found · 4 changelogs checked
Monitor firedair.inc/changelogmatched DAM-51
Air shipped bulk exports this morning — the exact feature this issue proposes. They’ve validated it for you. Consider moving it up.
change detected → issue matched → commented in 2 min
The challenge
Every ticket is a bet, and most teams place it blind
- Validation never happens
- Checking demand means hours trawling Reddit, X, and competitor changelogs — so nobody does it, and tickets ship on gut feel.
- The market moves without you
- Competitors ship the features your backlog is still debating, and you find out from a customer instead of a changelog.
Validation that used to take hours
Manual research meant nobody did it. Vera makes the honest check the cheapest, fastest step in the workflow — so every ticket gets one before it costs you a sprint.
90s
median runFrom @mention to a scored verdict
<1¢
all sourcesAPI spend per validation
10min
standing monitorsCompetitor pages re-checked, around the clock
“CompetitorX just shipped this — they’ve validated it for you.” Posted by Vera on an open issue, before anyone on the team knew.
Verdicts are just the start. Vera leaves standing monitors on competitor changelog and roadmap pages, matches every change against your open issues, and comments the moment the market makes a decision for you.
See the proactive loopHow it works
One mention. Four moves.
The whole pipeline runs where your team already lives — the only interface is a Linear comment thread.
01
Mention Vera on any issue
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02
Research fans out in parallel
Full Reddit threads with comment trees, live X search, and scraped competitor changelogs and roadmaps — three sources, simultaneously. One source failing never kills a run.
reddit ∥ x ∥ changelogs
03
A scored verdict lands as a comment
Build, Investigate, or Skip — with a 0–10 demand score, linked evidence quotes, competitor coverage, and a one-paragraph recommendation. About 90 seconds, under a cent.
claude synthesis → verdict comment
04
Standing monitors keep watching
Vera pins monitors to competitor pages and re-checks them every 10 minutes. When something ships that matches an open issue, it comments proactively — the market just validated it for you.
change detected → issue matched → comment
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