Kill the wrong idea
before you build it.
A 0 to 100 score and a Scale / Pivot / Kill verdict on every idea, free before any wall. Every idea in the pool shows the sourced kill-shot behind its call.
“Turn your Notion docs into a daily AI podcast”
The want never turns into “I’d pay.” In the threads it reads as a passing “neat,” never a need.
An example Kill, not a live reading
OwnerGraph
Reading the live signal across the developer web
Live sources
Public communities, code activity, launch boards and more.
Point viability score
Eight weighted dimensions, scored on evidence.
Models cross-examine
Every verdict, argued both ways.
To a verdict
Paste an idea, get the panel’s call in under a minute.
Most ideas die one of two deaths.
The slow death
You build for six months on pure conviction. The market never wanted it. You learn the truth a year and a burnt runway too late.
The fast death
You ask a chatbot. It hands back a confident, agreeable yes that was never checked against a single real person. You build the wrong thing, faster.
Skeptral is the third path: an honest verdict, backed by the actual signals behind it, before you write a line of code.
The wrong build costs far more than the verdict.
Building something nobody wants isn’t free. It’s the most expensive mistake a founder makes, and you only find out at the end.
of nights and weekends, spent before the first user ever sees it.
on tools, ads and a contractor, sunk into a thing the market never asked for.
that doesn’t come back once you’ve shipped the wrong thing and stalled.
The verdict that could have stopped it is free, and it lands before you write a line of code.
See a real verdictThe honest verdict is free. No signup.
Every idea in the pool shows its score, its verdict and its sourced kill-shot before any wall. The tools that make you sign up just to see the call are hiding a soft yes.
A 0 to 100 conviction score
The same calibrated number on every idea in the pool.
A Scale / Pivot / Kill verdict
The actual call, not a hedge. We say kill when it is kill.
A sourced kill-shot
The single flaw that ends it, with a link to the post that proves it.
- —The full dossier: the why behind the verdict
- —Fresh ideas the day they clear the gate
- —Your own generation runs
You know if it works for nothing. You pay only for how.
Every other tool flatters you.
We're the one trying to talk you out of it. Three honest verdicts, each backed by evidence you can click.
Durable demand and a clean wedge. Build it, here’s the blueprint.
The demand’s real, the shape’s wrong. Reshape it before you commit a year.
The kill-shot lands. Walk away now and keep the eleven months.
From noise to a build-ready plan.
Three steps, under a minute. No dashboards to wire, no prompts to write.
Listen to the whole developer web.
We continuously read the developer web to surface the recurring complaints and pivot-hell moments people keep hitting.
Score it against a hard rubric.
Raw signal is useless on its own. Each problem is graded on a 0 to 100 rubric across eight weighted dimensions, led by demand evidence, pain severity, distribution and solo fit.
Walk away with a plan, not a PDF.
For the ideas that survive, you get the actual deliverables, a technical spec, a launch kit, and a go-to-market outline, ready to hand to yourself on day one.
What a 0 to 100 viability score actually weighs.
Four are gates. A zero on any one caps the whole score in the killed band. The other four only refine the number inside it.
Demand evidence
20% GateProof people already want this. The most documented cause of startup death is "no market need", so this one carries the most weight.
Pain severity
15% GateA nuisance or a hair-on-fire problem. Vitamins lose, painkillers win.
Distribution
15% GateA believable, repeatable way to reach buyers without a paid-ads bonfire.
Solo fit
15% GateCan one founder actually build and run this, or does it need a team you do not have?
Economics
10%Does the unit math survive contact with real CAC and churn?
Market quality
10%Who is buying, how often, and how much room is left.
Timing
10%Why now and not three years ago or three years from now.
Differentiation
5%Barely registers. Most billion-dollar startups had competitors on day one.
Independent models score it and cross-examine the result. When they disagree by more than 25 points, the run is flagged for a human look instead of fabricating a middle number.
Kill the dead ideas before you spend a build credit.
v0, Bolt, Lovable and Replit are brilliant at building. They are also the expensive part. Run the cheap filter first, so you only point them at an idea that already survived a kill attempt.
First · the gate
Score it before you build it.
A verdict in under a minute, free. Most ideas die here, on a single hard kill-shot, for the price of nothing.
Then · the build
Hand the survivor to v0.
Spend the build credits and the build months on the one idea worth the runway, not the ones that were never going to work.
We don't compete with the build tools. We're the gate in front of them, the one that saves you the credit.
Everything you need to scale.
The tools that carry an idea from a raw signal to a plan you can ship.
One-Click Export
Export every validated idea as CSV, JSON, or Markdown, with a full technical spec and architecture map. Typed Next.js scaffolding ships today via the CLI and public API.
Seed pitch decks
Turn a validated idea into the eleven-slide seed deck investors expect, with traction and projections left for you to fill.
Competitor Radar
Maps the existing solutions in your space and how they price.
Demand momentum, read live
Tracks how loud a problem is getting across forum posts, subreddit growth, and GitHub activity, so you see what's heating up, not a finger in the air.
Built for how you actually work.
Three decisions, made on evidence instead of a hunch.
No testimonials, no logos, no star ratings. Just the method, illustrated, and the one thing we can stand behind: most ideas we score never clear the ship gate.
See the real distributionAbout to spend three months on a marketplace? The panel surfaces the supply-side problem first, straight from the threads, so you reshape it into a SaaS before you commit the quarter.
IllustrativeEvery validation score is backed by the actual GitHub and Reddit links behind it, so the verdict is something you can check, not just a confident paragraph.
IllustrativeThe build-ready spec turns a validated idea into a real starting point, instead of an empty editor and a guess at what to ship first.
IllustrativeFour ways to validate an idea.
One of them tells you the truth.
| A gut call | Asking ChatGPT | A $5k consultant | Skeptral | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tells you it is bad when it is | ||||
| Backs the verdict with sourced evidence | ||||
| Independent panel, not one agreeable voice | ||||
| Verdict in under a minute | ||||
| Free to see the verdict |
ChatGPT is fast and free too. It just will not tell you to kill it, and it cannot cite who already did.
Simple, transparent pricing.
The verdict is always free. You pay to generate new ideas, not to read the ones we've already killed.
Hobby
Kick the tyres. Browse every verdict for free.
- Generation runs: none (browse only)
- Unlimited idea validations
- Browse the judged pool, free
- Spec & blueprint export
Pro
Insurance against month nine.
- 10 generation runs per month
- Unlimited idea validations
- Advanced Scale/Kill matrix
- Full dossier unlocked on every idea
- Priority email support
Venture
For agencies and venture studios.
- 100 generation runs per month
- Overage metering coming soon, heavy use won't be blocked
- Everything in Pro
Just validating one idea? The dossier on your pitch is €29, one-time.
The verdict stays free. Reply to your purchase receipt within 30 days of upgrading and we'll take €29 off your first Pro month.
No fake discounts. No countdown timers. The price is the price.
Frequently asked questions
See a real verdict first.
The score, the call and the sourced kill-shot are free. Read one before you trust us with a build month.
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