Erik B🚮rtlett
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Erik B🚮rtlett
@barkledad
building @listenlabs @cal runs fueled by baked goods and a desire for wine

In user interviews, a frown is great feedback. But it never makes it into the transcript. That's why we built Emotional Intelligence.

Introducing Claude Code for research. Listen’s Research Agent lets you analyze data, quantify insights, and generate research deliverables all in Listen, much like how developers use Claude Code.

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

Lincoln Riley isn’t thrilled about USC’s early kickoff this week in Champaign. “Going from the absolute latest kick in the country to the absolute earliest kick in the country has its challenges. But the challenges — like, it is what it is. We don’t make the schedule. Clearly.”




AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users. We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs. Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert. See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:



Listen now outputs findings directly in PowerPoint. Here is how we built it: - .pptx is just a zip of XML and media files that reference each other. This can get complex, in fact, PowerPoint shapes and animations are already Turing-complete. - Microsoft has a 5,000-page XML specification, but it does not include features like changing link colors or rounded corners for images. - Existing python/npm libraries can’t even copy slides, and even Powerpoint Online has a surprisingly restricted feature set. So we had to reverse engineer PowerPoint output ourselves. More details in our technical blog post (link in comments).







