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Pandoc is awesome for this: `pandoc input.docx -o output.md` There's more you can do, with style sheets and so on, which you will likely have to dig into for the tables and multiple columns to come out the way you want. You can also extract media files from inside a docx file: `pandoc --extract-media=. input.docx -o output.md`

Both are bad IMHO .. a senior human analyst who accepts a 2 sentence product description? What kind of weird reality is that coming from? I’ve had a client do that too, but it’s the analysts job to ask all the point follow-up questions so they end up with a proper requirements list. That ends up being multiple pages long.. feed that to the AI! I agree the AI as stated above has a bigger coverage, but it’s not doing a better job, it’s being just as lazy and adding a ton of filler to a lousy prompt. Yeah, this set me off. Great topic! Looking forward to reading the discussion. :)

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Hey, if you would be so kind as to fix all the PDF links to engineering details on your site as well as linking to the patent.. you might get responses.

Set rules, not boundaries. What do I mean by that? When out for walks, we’d tell the kids that they had to stay on the path, they could go as far as they wanted.. as long as we could see them and they could see us. Oh, and keep a close eye on your parents., they are easily distracted. What happened? When they were 2 they went 5 meters.. by 8 years old they go to the curve in the path.. and come back to tell us we had wandered off again!

It was awesome. We never had to yell at them.. they had clear and simple limits.

That worked really well, but we had to learn the hard way not to set expectations we couldn’t absolutely control and guarantee. Let’s go have ice cream and the favourite place.. oh no. They’re closed.. meltdown. Let’s wander that way and see what we find.. much safer. Congratulations! Enjoy it!

My feedback as a freelancer.. change the struggles to questions. Instead of "Lost revenue from unaccounted hours" make me think: "Have you lost revenue due to unaccounted hours?" In my mind this makes it clear that this web app can help me solve that problem.

The "& More" needs to link to something.. like a list of all the features you provide beyond the ones mentioned on the home page. Maybe link to the blog page for now? There's tons of great content there.

Does the app support Canadian currency?

I'd use it.. :-) Primarily i'm looking to compare a user list on a SAAS with a source of truth list to figure out which accounts to add/remove/change etc. Ideally i'd like to know which email address the user was setup with, whether they are using SSO or password to login, what permissions they have and when their last login was.