Startup tooling
IdeaValidator
Find out which part of the idea is weak, before you build the whole thing.
Describe a startup idea in plain language and get it scored 0–100 across five weighted criteria — market viability, innovation, feasibility, monetization and defensibility, each graded on its own. The result is something you can argue with rather than a single verdict handed down. Monetization options come back with their pros, cons and an effectiveness rating. Free to use, and there is no card.
At a glance
- Scoring range
- 0–100 per dimension
- Evaluation criteria
- 5, weighted
- Steps to a result
- 3
- Signup
- None, no card
The shift
What it replaced
Before this existed
You went on gut feel and whatever friends told you, and found out the market, the feasibility or the money problem months into building.
After
You get the idea scored 0–100 on five separate dimensions, with revenue models attached, in the few minutes before any of it is expensive to change.
What you can check
- 300+ ideas validated
- 10+ founders served
- 5 weighted criteria
- 0–100 per dimension
Fit
Where it fits, and where it does not
Founders before the first line of code
The point of the tool is to be cheap enough to use while changing direction is still cheap. Afterwards, the answer costs more than it is worth.
Anyone whose only feedback has been friendly
Friends and family answer a different question than the market does. A structured second opinion is not better than either — it is simply not invested in your feelings.
People weighing several ideas at once
Because dimensions are scored separately, two ideas can be compared on the axis that actually differs rather than on one composite number.
Not built for
- Anyone wanting a verdict rather than something to argue with
- Diligence on a business that already has customers and revenue
- Market sizing or research that has to stand up in a data room
- Anyone expecting a model to be right about a market. It is a structured second opinion, not evidence
In the wild
What people do with it
Before the first sprint
The weekend you decide whether to start
You have an idea and a free Saturday. Score it before you buy the domain, and read the two weakest axes as the list of what you would have to be right about.
Choosing between ideas
Two ideas that score the same overall
Composite scores hide the thing you need. Two ideas can both come back around 60, one weak on feasibility and the other on defensibility, and those are completely different problems to take on.
Before a conversation
Knowing where you will get pushed
The axis that came back lowest is usually the first question an investor or a technical co-founder asks. Better to meet it on a screen than across a table.
Working out the business model
When the idea is fine and the money is not
Sometimes the market and feasibility scores are healthy and monetization is the one dragging. The revenue models that come back are the part to read properly.
Architecture
How it holds
An LLM analysis engine wrapped in three steps — describe the idea in plain language, the model evaluates it against five weighted criteria, and the app renders a 0–100 score per dimension alongside monetization options with their pros, cons and an effectiveness rating.
Describe it in plain language
No form, no framework to learn, no taxonomy to fit the idea into. Whatever a founder would say out loud is a valid input.
Evaluate against five weighted criteria
The model grades all five separately — market viability, innovation, feasibility, monetization and defensibility — rather than collapsing them into one opaque verdict.
Score 0–100 per dimension
Breaking one fuzzy question into comparable dimensions is what makes the answer arguable — and an arguable answer is the only kind worth acting on.
Propose how it would make money
Revenue models come back with pros, cons and an effectiveness rating, which is what turns a validation result into a next step.
What it does
The decisions it is made of
Not a feature list. Each of these is a choice the build turned on, and each one was made against a cheaper alternative that would have worked until it did not.
Multi-dimensional scoring
Instead of one opaque verdict, an idea is scored 0–100 on market viability, innovation, feasibility, monetization and defensibility — so you see exactly which part is strong and which part isn’t.
Monetization strategies
Revenue models come back with their pros, cons and an effectiveness rating — so the result ends on something to do rather than on a number.
Zero-friction access
Free to use, no card, and no waiting on an email — the result comes back on the same screen you typed into.
Plain-language input
Founders describe an idea conversationally — there are no forms or frameworks to learn first.
In practice
The shape of what it produces
score breakdown · sample
Idea
“A scheduling and payments tool for independent dance studios”
- Market viability
- 78/100
- Innovation
- 61/100
- Feasibility
- 52/100
- Monetization
- 74/100
- Defensibility
- 45/100
Composite
63/100
The shape of a result: five dimensions graded separately, so a strong idea with one weak axis reads as exactly that.
Security
How your data is handled
A language model reads your description
That is how the scoring works: the text you type is analysed by an LLM to produce the five dimension scores and the revenue models underneath them.
EvidenceThe same mechanism described in how it works, above. There is no human review step and no queue.
No audited certification
THWorks holds no SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or PCI DSS attestation, and IdeaValidator is not covered by one. If your procurement requires it, we do not clear that bar today.
EvidenceStated here rather than left for you to find in a security questionnaire.
These are mechanisms, not certifications. If you want to know exactly what happens to a submission before you type one in, ask us and you will get a straight answer.
Gallery
Frames from the build
FAQ
IdeaValidator, answered
The questions that come up about IdeaValidator — what it does, how it is built, and what it takes to run it.
You describe your idea in plain language and an AI evaluates it across five weighted dimensions — market viability, innovation, feasibility, monetization and defensibility — returning a 0–100 score for each one.
Yes. Alongside the scores you get revenue models for the idea, each with its pros, its cons and a rating of how well it would work. That is the part that turns a result into a decision about what to do next.
You sign up, but you do not pay. It is free to use, there is no card, and the analysis comes back on the same screen rather than by email.
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