Product design question

Replit wants Agent to help non-technical employees in functions like finance, operations, and product solve real business problems with software. How would you identify the highest-value use cases, and then prioritize the connectors, reusable workflows, and product capabilities needed to serve them?

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What this question tests

Tests the ability to identify high value non technical use cases and prioritize the platform capabilities needed to serve them well.

Identify candidate use cases by function, finance building reconciliation tools, ops building workflow trackers, product building lightweight internal dashboards.
Validate demand through direct interviews or pilot usage data rather than assuming which use cases matter most.
Prioritize connectors to the systems non technical users already work in, like spreadsheets, Slack, and common SaaS tools, since those unlock the most use cases at once.
Prioritize reusable workflow templates for the most common patterns, like data pull and report generation, over one off custom builds.
Sequence product capabilities that reduce the need for technical debugging, like clearer error messages and guided prompts, since non technical users cannot self serve through code errors.
Set adoption and task completion metrics per function to confirm which use cases are actually sticking before investing further.

Prioritizes connectors and templates that unlock many use cases at once over deep investment in one narrow use case.
Explicitly calls out reducing technical debugging burden as a capability priority, since that is the actual barrier for non technical users, not raw capability.
Validates use case demand with real usage or interview data rather than assuming based on function titles alone.

Assuming which use cases matter most without validating through real user interviews or pilot data.
Prioritizing flashy technical capabilities over the unglamorous but higher leverage work of clear error handling and guided prompts.

How would you measure whether a non technical user actually succeeded versus gave up and asked an engineer for help?
Which connector would you build first and why?