Work with me / Nikola Balić · Disequi
Find your place in
the agent economy.
I help software companies figure out what to build, who to build it for, and how to make it useful when agents are doing more of the choosing and using.
Can an agent become
your customer?
Someone asks their agent to solve a problem your product handles. What happens next?
Does it find you? Understand when to choose you? Get through setup and do something useful? Each step is a product question, and a potential place to lose the customer.
This is a focused engagement for founders and teams building developer tools and software that agents can use. We follow one valuable customer task all the way through.
One real task.
Enough depth to learn something.
Pick a task worth winning.
We choose one customer and one commercially important task. What would successful use look like? Why would that customer choose you?
Watch agents try it.
Starting from realistic customer requests, we follow the path through discovery, comparison, docs, authentication, and actual use. We keep the failures visible.
Work on what gets in the way.
I work with your team on an agreed set of changes. That might mean a clearer use case, a better example, a CLI fix, or a missing product capability.
Run it again.
You leave with the scoped improvements, an evaluation you can repeat, and evidence of what still needs work. Your team can check the next release against the same task.
We agree on the task, scope, and deliverables before starting. If the work points to a bigger product question—who needs this, or what you should build next—we can work through that too.
Built from doing the work.
My work sits between product, engineering, and growth. These experiments and essays show how I approach the problems.
What makes an agent better at using a tool?
Two weeks of testing skills and tasks, alongside CLI improvements by Hussuf and Junshyoungs. The useful output: a way to keep measuring.
Tool · ExperimentAgentProbe
A tool I built to investigate how well agents actually use command-line tools, and where they get stuck.
Growth · Field notesWhen the evaluator is an agent
What server logs and my experience at Steel suggested about product discovery beyond the browser analytics dashboard.
Product strategy · EssayGet opinionated about the first problem
Why choosing a specific customer workflow helps you learn what your product is missing.
Start with something specific
Send me your product.
And one task an agent should be able to do.
Tell me who the customer is and where you think it breaks. We’ll discuss why it matters to the business and whether I can help.
Let’s look at your product[email protected]
I consult through Disequi.