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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)

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See it work

example output

Source: 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.

REST  POST /api/bicycle/business-ideas
MCP   extract_business_ideas

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