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Oct 10, 2025 21 min

Technical Advisory Boards - the most important action DevTools founders can take?

from Scaling DevTools Hosted by Jack Bridger

In this episode, we explore Adam Frankl's concept of a Technical Advisory Board, and how it helps DevTools founders learn directly from potential users. I share personal experience organizing one-on-one interviews to find out real customer problems and gives tips for recruiting members. We explore how to set up the meetings, analyse feedback, and get the most value from the process. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: • The first tab call • How to recruit TAB members • After the first set of TAB calls • Adam's Linkedin • Adam's book

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 1:01 Adam Frankl
  3. 1:48 What is a Technical Advisory Board
  4. 3:01 The 1st TAB call
  5. 5:21 WorkOS Sponsor
  6. 6:21 Magic Wand
  7. 11:05 Example email
  8. 13:04 Analysis framework: Value, Proposition, Design
  9. 18:56 The 3rd TAB call
  10. 20:01 Summary

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