Tools · Startup & strategy
Business Ideas
Surface and structure the venture concepts buried in research, books, or briefs.
How it works
Source-specific extraction (report / book summary / research study); explicit-only extraction discipline (no invented opportunities); typed records ready for comparison or downstream PRD.
You bring
{ text, sourceType?: deep_research|book|research, sourceId?, title?, author? }
You get
BusinessIdeaCanonical[] (value prop · target market · business model · revenue streams · key features)
Use it for
- →Campaign/offer ideation: turn an evidence dossier into candidate offers to test on the Resonance Ladder
- →Sweep the book corpus for commercializable frameworks (toolbox spoke candidates)
- →Client play: discovery-call notes → structured options for what their next offering could be
See it work
example outputSource: a deep-research report on the small-business bookkeeping-and-compliance market for solo founders.
Business Ideas extracted — SMB Bookkeeping & Compliance report
Three venture concepts the source actually evidences (explicit-only — nothing invented):
1. Compliance-Calendar-as-a-Service
Value proposition: Solo founders miss filing deadlines because the rules differ by state, entity type, and revenue band; this turns a one-time business profile into an always-current calendar of every tax, license, and registration deadline with reminders and pre-filled forms.
- Target market: US single-member LLCs and sole proprietors in their first three years.
- Business model: Low-priced SaaS subscription with a per-filing upsell.
- Revenue streams: Monthly subscription · per-filing done-for-you fee · partner referral fees (registered-agent, insurance).
- Key features: Entity/state rules engine · deadline reminders · pre-filled form generation · accountant hand-off export.
- Feasibility: high · Priority: high
2. Receipt-to-Ledger Capture
Value proposition: Photograph or forward a receipt; it's categorized, matched to a transaction, and booked — removing the data-entry that makes founders abandon bookkeeping.
- Target market: Pre-accountant micro-businesses doing their own books.
- Business model: Freemium (capped captures free, unlimited paid).
- Revenue streams: Subscription · year-end export-to-CPA package.
- Key features: OCR capture · auto-categorization · bank-feed matching · audit trail.
- Feasibility: medium · Priority: medium
3. Year-End Tax-Readiness Score
Value proposition: A diagnostic that scores how "tax-ready" a founder's books are and lists the exact gaps to fix before handing off to a CPA.
- Target market: Founders who DIY all year but use an accountant at filing time.
- Business model: One-time seasonal purchase; funnel into #1.
- Feasibility: high · Priority: low
Each idea is extracted only from claims the report makes; market-sizing and financial projections were not asserted in the source and are left empty rather than fabricated.
Run it on your data
Call it on your own inputs — over the API, or hand it to your AI agent via MCP. Discovery is open; running it is metered.