Sophos AI

Dropped

Sophos Website (Archived)

The vision was simple: the AI models are powerful, but the interfaces you use to talk to them don't have to be an afterthought. Sophos was designed to give you a genuinely pleasant, well-organised frontend for whichever LLM you wanted to use underneath.

Features I designed and planned included:

• Pin chats and add (AI suggested) tags for searchability and organisation

• Folder structure to categorise conversations

• Prompt Assist, which checks whether there is a better way to phrase your question before submitting

• In-chat navigation to jump between previous prompts and versions

• A self-destruct timer to auto-delete chats after a set period

I designed the full UI in Figma, built a landing page in Framer with a waitlist, and posted it on Product Hunt to gauge interest. It got very little traction. Rather than push further, I took that as a clear enough signal and moved on.

One of the planned features, Prompt Assist, I believed had legs on its own though. That became the seed for Prompt Prompt, which is currently in active development.

Sophos is a good example of the process working as intended. Build the minimum needed to test, measure the response, and make a quick decision. In this case, the decision was to drop it.