Every AI tells you your idea is great — that's what they're trained to do. Idea Autopsy signs kill criteria before it looks at any evidence, hunts for the data that proves you wrong, verifies every citation, and delivers a verdict it can't sugarcoat. If your idea survives, you'll know exactly why. If it dies, you just saved months.
The rules are now signed. Someone has to go find the evidence — the market's corpses, the voice of the pain, the case against. That's the autopsy.
Run the full autopsy — $49"This is absolutely brilliant… It's not just smart — it's genius."
— ChatGPT, to a Reddit user pitching a literal "shit on a stick" gag product. It suggested $30,000 could launch it. OpenAI rolled the model back days later for sycophancy.
It's not a bug you can prompt away. Studies show "be critical" prompts don't protect you — the model still learned that agreeing scores better than arguing. Validation needs structure, not vibes.
Before any research runs, we write down what would have to be true for your idea to work — and the kill conditions: "if we find X, the idea dies." The verdict criteria get locked before the evidence exists, so nothing can bend the conclusion to please you.
Two deep investigations run on your idea: the market map (who's alive, who's a corpse, real prices with dates) and the voice of the pain (verbatim quotes from real people, with links and dates — never invented; every citation is checked to exist and say what it claims).
A separate pass whose only job is to build the strongest possible case against your idea. Not a devil's-advocate prompt — a dedicated adversarial run with its own instructions.
KILL / PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS / STRONG — decided by the rules you signed in step one, not by the model's mood. If it dies, you get the autopsy: which assumptions were false, the evidence that killed them, and what you just saved by not building.
Before this page existed, the system ran on its creator's own product ideas — five candidates in three days. Four died with cited evidence. Five of the operator's own pre-registered assumptions were refuted along the way.
Cause of deathThe incumbent costs $9/month — no villain. Two near-identical open-source projects already exist, with 0 and 1 GitHub stars. The natural experiment had already run. Nobody came.
Cause of deathAcross the entire developer lifecycle, testing turned out to be the least-voiced pain of all — a declared vacuum. You can't sell a painkiller for a pain nobody verbalizes.
Cause of deathThe coding pain is already domesticated by free wrappers — and the real blocker is the platform's paperwork, which no code generator can remove.
Cause of deathAfter ~32 searches: not one verifiable first-person quote of the target buyer voicing the pain. The only people talking about it are the vendors selling the solution.
VerdictThe one idea that survived both investigations: the loudest, most recent, most documented pain of everything measured — AI sycophancy applied to business decisions. This page is its pre-registered smoke test. If not enough people want the autopsy, this product dies too — and that autopsy gets published.
You can — and it will probably encourage you. Sycophancy is structural (models are trained on human approval), and research shows "be critical" prompts don't fix it. What works is process: criteria committed before evidence, deliberate search for disconfirming data, verified citations, and a separate adversary. That's not a prompt. That's Idea Autopsy.
Then it survives the autopsy and you get something more valuable than encouragement: the documented reasons it holds up, the conditions it depends on, and the evidence to move fast with confidence.
72 hours. During beta we onboard manually — a human operates the system on your idea, end to end.
PRE-REGISTERED EXPERIMENT — This launch runs under the same rules the product sells: its kill thresholds were written down before this page went live. If it doesn't reach them, Idea Autopsy dies like cases 001–004, and the autopsy gets published.