Startup Check · Free · About 5 minutes
Is your startup actually ready to build?
Answer a short set of questions and get a free, AI-powered report that scores your readiness out of 100. It shows where you are strong, where the risk sits, and what is still unclear, before you spend money on the wrong thing.
Free No signup · Around 5 minutes · Built by a hands-on CTO
Your answers, one scored report, yours to keep and share.
What it is
Not a quiz.
A real readiness assessment.
Startup Check asks the questions a technical co-founder would ask before writing a line of code: what are you building and why, who pays and how much, how you reach them, what your MVP cannot launch without, and where the regulatory risk sits. It reads your answers with AI and returns a structured report you can act on the same day.
It is free, and it is built by the same team behind our audit, sprint, and build work.
How it works
Three steps. About five minutes.
Answer the questions
A short set of questions about your product, market, model, team, and timeline. No technical background needed. Write in plain language.
AI reads your answers
Each answer is scored for clarity and substance, then combined into an overall readiness score with strengths, risks, and gaps called out.
Get your report
A structured report you can read in the browser, keep, and share with a co-founder, investor, or your team. No signup required.
What you get
One score.
A clear map of where to work next.
A readiness score out of 100
An honest headline number, plus a median and the spread across every dimension assessed.
Strengths and key risks
What is working and what could sink the launch, each tied to the answers you gave.
Dimension-by-dimension breakdown
Every area scored, with specific watch-outs and a concrete next move for each one.
Priority actions in order
A ranked list of what to fix first, so you know where the next hour of work should go.
A plain-English verdict
An honest read on how ready you are to build, and what would move the number.
Yours to keep and share
A shareable link with a social preview, so a co-founder or investor can see it in seconds.
Who it is for
Built for founders about to spend real money.
Non-technical founders
You have an idea and a budget, and you want a clear-eyed read on whether it is ready before you hire a developer.
Early-stage teams
You are scoping an MVP and want to catch the gaps in your plan while they are still cheap to fix.
Anyone weighing a build
You want an honest second opinion on your product thinking, with no pitch attached.
Common questions
What founders ask before running it.
Yes. Startup Check is free and needs no signup. It exists so founders can get a clear read on their idea, and so we can be useful before any conversation about working together.
About five minutes. A short set of questions in plain language. The more specific your answers, the sharper the report.
A structured report with a readiness score out of 100, your strengths and key risks, a breakdown of every dimension assessed, a ranked list of priority actions, and a plain-English verdict. You can read it in the browser and share the link.
Each answer is assessed by AI for clarity and substance, then combined into an overall score. The number reflects how clearly and completely you have thought each area through, as much as the underlying strength of the idea. Treat it as a map of where your thinking is sharp versus thin.
Your report lives at its own unlisted link and is not indexed by search engines. It is yours to keep and to share when you choose.
You take it and use it however makes sense. If you want a hands-on CTO to help close the gaps, the natural next steps are a Technical Audit, a Fractional CTO Sprint, or an MVP Build. None of them are required.
Get your readiness score in five minutes.
Free, no signup, and yours to keep. See exactly where your startup stands before you build.
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