Built for the question that actually matters.
"Is this idea worth pursuing?" shouldn't require eight analyst hours or a chatbot that hallucinates the TAM. Verdikt ships a memo with named risks and cited sources. Under one hour, fully cited.
The gap between a hunch and a defensible memo is where founders bury three months.
Founders don't ship the wrong thing because they're not smart. They ship it because nothing closes the gap between "I have a hunch" and "I have a memo I can defend." That gap costs three months and a hard conversation.
What's missing is what a senior investor does at 11pm on a Sunday: pull the evidence, name the assumption that has to be true, name what would kill it, write the verdict.
We built Verdikt because we were tired of watching founders build the wrong thing.
Seven years in agencies taught me a depressing pattern: confident teams shipping on bad assumptions. Beautiful decks, wrong inputs, predictable graveyards. Founders asked us to validate ideas after they'd shipped them. I wanted the verdict before the build.
"A model that won't show its sources doesn't belong in a verdict. A recommendation that can't name what would change it is vibes in a serif font."
I came at it from the other side: systems that produce defensible answers, not confident ones. Every model cites, surfaces its falsifier, and forgets your brief when the run ends. Rigor is the product.
That's why we charge real money. Frontier models, paid data, our time. Cheap tools give you generic guesses. Verdikt gives you a memo you can defend.
If you have an idea you keep returning to, run it through before you spend three months building it. Worst case, $49.99. Best case, three months saved and a cofounder relationship intact.
Three verdicts. One repeatable structure.
Three verdicts. Different outcomes, identical structure.
26-month cycle. Not 14.
TAM off 3.4×.
Moat is the graph.
Verdikt reports are advisory research, not legal, financial, investment, or business advice.
Submit an idea. Get a verdict.
Target under 1 hour. $49.99 for the first one. Refund or re-run if it's not defensible.