Structured AI review for startup ideas before you build.
Validate before you build.
IdeaSense helps early-stage founders and solo builders pressure-test software ideas before they commit to build.
Run a staged validation workflow with structured review, DVF scoring, and decision-ready reports.
Perspective
Most bad bets feel persuasive right before they get built.
IdeaSense is designed to challenge the pitch, surface missing evidence, and slow down the rush to execution.
DVF Engine
Three signals. One clearer decision.
Desirability, viability, and feasibility are reviewed separately so the result feels defensible, not improvised.
Interrogate
Challenge weak logic
It pushes on missing evidence, edge cases, hidden dependencies, and reasoning gaps across the DVF dimensions.
Quantify
Turn intuition into explainable signals
IdeaSense helps early-stage teams pressure-test a software idea through structured dialogue, staged review, DVF scoring, and a decision-ready report.
Decide
Bring the most dangerous unknowns forward
Use a structured founder review, DVF scoring, and a decision-ready report to decide whether to proceed, pause, or pivot.
DVF Engine
Three signals. One clearer decision.
Desirability, viability, and feasibility are reviewed separately so the result feels defensible, not improvised.
Desirability
We test the problem, the target user, the context of use, the urgency of pain, current alternatives, and whether real demand signals exist.
Viability
We examine the value proposition, business logic, market dynamics, channel friction, competition, and the assumptions behind commercial success.
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Viability
Feasibility
We assess MVP scope, technical approach, dependencies, data and compliance constraints, team capability, and delivery risk.
Decision-Ready Report
A report your team can actually use.
Instead of another generic plan, get a concise decision artifact: score, risks, assumptions, and what to validate next.
DVF scoreboard and overall decision band
Lean Canvas summary
Market evidence and verification summary
Reports can be printed and exported for follow-up discussion.
Decision band
77/100
Proceed with guardrails: validate completion and report traceability first.
Ethan Lu
Independent builder
Personal website
About
Built independently for founder reality.
IdeaSense AI is an independent product built and operated by Ethan Lu for early-stage software founders and solo builders who need clearer decisions.
Built for
Built for early-stage software founders and solo builders.
Session format
The system gathers the problem, user, scenario, proposed solution, and the assumptions currently carrying your confidence.
Core output
Lean Canvas summary
Independent product, open to feedback
If you work with founders or early-stage teams, product feedback and thoughtful questions are welcome.
Open registration is live, and product feedback goes straight into ongoing iteration.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
The short version of how IdeaSense thinks, scores, and protects the work.
ChatGPT is good at open-ended brainstorming. IdeaSense runs a staged review: anchor questions, summary confirmation, DVF scoring, and a report built from structured project state rather than a one-off chat response.
Start with evidence
Sharper evidence. Better bets.
Use a structured founder review, DVF scoring, and a decision-ready report to decide whether to proceed, pause, or pivot.
Open registration is live. Scores support judgment; they do not guarantee outcomes.