The StartWise Validation Exam · Free
Six questions.
Eleven verdicts.
One honest score.
The free exam that pressure-tests your startup idea the way an investor will — before you spend months building the wrong thing.
No credit card · ~10 minutes · report in under 60 seconds
Market is real and your ICP is tight, but the competitive wedge needs work before you scale.
+ 7 more sections in the full report
Yours generates in under 60 seconds
“It killed my idea in 10 minutes. Saved me 6 months of building the wrong thing.”
01What's graded
Eleven sections.
No flattery.
The same questions an investor asks in diligence — answered about your idea before you build it.
Market Opportunity
Is the market real, big enough, and growing — or a niche that caps you early?
Target Audience
Whether your ICP is tight enough to reach, and how urgently they feel the problem.
Competitive Landscape
Who already solves this, how well, and where the gaps actually are.
Differentiation & Moat
What stops an incumbent from copying you in a quarter.
Business Model
How the idea makes money, and whether the unit economics can work.
Financial Viability
Rough costs to build and run it versus realistic revenue paths.
Go-to-Market
How you get the first 100 customers without burning your runway.
Legal & Compliance
Regulatory, licensing, and data issues that could block you later.
Risk Assessment
The biggest ways this specific idea fails — named, not hand-waved.
Execution Feasibility
How hard this is to actually build with the resources you have.
Verdict & Next Steps
A 0–100 score, an honest build / pivot / kill verdict, and what to do next.
02How it works
From idea to verdict in a single sitting.
Sit the exam
Six questions about your idea, market, and plan. Thoughtful answers beat long ones — no fluff, no pitch practice.
We pressure-test it
Your answers are graded across all eleven dimensions, modeled on what investors actually grade against.
Read your verdict
A 0–100 score, a section-by-section breakdown, and a clear call: build it, pivot it, or kill it.
03What founders say
I went from a rough idea to a complete pitch deck and business plan in one weekend. Investors were impressed with how polished everything looked.
The investor directory saved me weeks of cold outreach. I connected with three angels in my first week and closed a pre-seed round within two months.
As a non-technical founder, the AI business plan and deck were a game changer. I walked into investor meetings with real numbers instead of guesses.
04Questions
Before you put your idea on the line.
The StartWise Validation Exam
Would an investor fund this idea? Find out first.
No credit card · ~10 minutes
Free forever — retake after every pivot