Tool Landscape

How many tools are people juggling, which ones, and what's broken? Tool count has zero correlation with overwhelm — the pain isn't how many tools, it's that they don't connect. Statistical validation, qualitative evidence, and missing capability signals below.

The Headline Finding

Tool count has zero correlation with overwhelm (ρ = , ). More tools doesn't predict more stress, lower productivity (ρ = ), or worse plan completion (ρ = ). Yet respondents consistently ask for integration and consolidation — the pain isn't tool count, it's tools that don't talk to each other.

Product implication: Don't build "fewer tools." Build the connective tissue between existing tools — or a single surface that eliminates context-switching.

Tools × Overwhelm

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Tool Count Distribution

Market Segment by Tool Count

Are heavy tool users more likely to be Painkiller customers?

Most Used Tools

Tools by Work Situation

Which tools does each group actually use? Select a work situation to see its top tools.

Tool Comparison Across Groups

Top 10 tools broken down by work situation — see which groups favor which tools.

Q18: What's Wrong With Your Tools?

Tool Pain Categories

Tool Pains by Work Situation

Which tool frustrations hit which roles hardest? Darker cells = higher % within that work situation.

Missing Capabilities

What people wish their tools could do. These are your feature roadmap signals.

Missing Capabilities by Work Situation

Which missing features matter most to which roles? Color-coded by Flowdealer mapping: green = core product, cyan = pillar feature, purple = other.

Product Direction (Derived from Tool Pains + Missing Capabilities)

Instead of a binary "simpler vs more powerful" axis, this derives product direction from what people complain about (q18 tool pains) and what they wish existed (q18 missing capabilities).

Ideal Tool Descriptions (Verbatim)

Tool Pain by Tool Count

Do heavy tool users hate different things than light users? If 10+ users skew toward integration_pain while 1-3 users cite lacks_features, that tells you exactly what to build for each segment.

Tool Pain Categories by Tool Count

Product Direction by Tool Count

Do heavy tool users want consolidation, integration, or more power? Each bar = 100% of respondents in that tool count group.

Tool Overload × Overwhelm

Does juggling more tools correlate with overwhelm or lower productivity? Each dot = one respondent (jittered). Boxes show median, IQR, and range. The correlation cards above already showed the answer: no significant relationship.

Overwhelm by Tool Count

Productivity by Tool Count

Tool Pain: In Their Words

What do people actually say about their tool frustrations? Q18 verbatim responses, filtered by tool count.