Evidence-weighted idea validation.
Know before you build.
AI can summarize a market. It can’t prove your idea is real. ValidLab weighs the evidence founders actually collect — interviews, experiments, numbers, traction — then the Advisor exposes the gaps before investors do. Primary evidence over a confident paragraph, every time.
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Free to start. The beta is invite-only, with onboarding in small batches — for solo founders, teams, corporate innovation centers, accelerators, and venture studios. Request access and we’ll reply by email, usually within a few days.
See what it actually shows
Real surfaces from the product — how a claim becomes a verdict you can defend: completeness, candid critique, and a deterministic score.
“We validated demand with customer interviews.”
12 interviews logged — all from the same role
Claim weakened → developing
Evidence is weighed, not counted — a confident claim backed by a narrow sample reads as developing until the evidence catches up.
Passing a gate means you can advance — it doesn’t mean your evidence is strong. ValidLab shows the two separately.
“You say SMB retailers urgently need this — but all 12 interviews were with enterprise ops leads. An investor reads that as the wrong customer: your evidence doesn’t match your target.”
It cites your own answers back to you and names what an investor would challenge — candid guidance, not applause.
Deterministic scoring: no AI in the headline number, and an unresolved deal-breaker caps the verdict.
How it works
- 01Add your idea and the assumptions it rests on.
- 02Work the 7 stages — each with explicit gate criteria.
- 03Log primary evidence: interviews, experiments, real numbers.
- 04The Advisor challenges weak claims and contradictions.
- 05Gates show what’s complete; quality shows what’s convincing.
- 06Export an investor-ready readiness summary.
Seven stages, real gates
Diagnose → Discover → Define → Validate → Ignite → Deploy → Dominate. Each stage has explicit gate criteria for progression and a separate quality verdict — progress never masquerades as proof.
An AI that pushes back
The Advisor doesn’t flatter. It reads your actual answers, cites them back to you, names what an investor would reject, and asks the question you’d rather skip.
A number you can defend
Deterministic scoring: no AI in the headline number. Answer quality leads, gate progress is the meter, and magnitude checks catch the implausible — a claimed revenue larger than your obtainable market is flagged, not celebrated. An unresolved deal-breaker caps the verdict.
Your ideas stay yours
Yes — every idea is private by default. Nothing is public unless you explicitly publish it.
Sharing is opt-in and read-only, via an unguessable link. Your name stays off it unless you turn attribution on.
No. We don’t use your ideas to train models, and we don’t sell your data.
Delete any idea at any time. To remove your entire account, email us and we’ll erase it for you.