Every AI flatters your idea. This one signs kill conditions before seeing any evidence — then hunts for the data that proves you wrong.
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 — $29 beta"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.
Not a bug you can prompt away — studies show "be critical" doesn't protect you. Validation needs structure, not vibes.
Assumptions and kill conditions get locked before any evidence exists — nothing can bend the conclusion to please you.
Market map (alive vs. dead, real prices) + voice of the pain (verbatim quotes with links) — every citation checked to exist.
A dedicated pass with one job: build the strongest possible case against your idea.
KILL / PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS / STRONG — ruled by your signed conditions, not the model's mood. Plus the full autopsy of what died and why.
These are real outputs, generated by the same free step you just used. We gave it three ideas anyone can recognise, and nothing else. The outcome underneath each one is history — the system never saw it.
It wrote"If grocery stores already sell bottled cold-pressed juice at a lower price per glass than the proprietary packs, the idea dies." Juicero raised about $120M and shut down in 2017, after a video showed the packs could be squeezed by hand.
It wrote"If every well-funded operator that has deployed neighbourhood dark stores for quick grocery delivery has shut them down, the idea dies." Between 2022 and 2024 the well-funded operators of that model shut down, sold themselves or retreated from their biggest markets.
It wrote"If personal auto insurance policies in the target market universally void coverage when the owner rents the car to a stranger, the idea dies." That is exactly the condition the survivors of this category had to solve — by building their own insurance programme before anything else worked.
Not one of these came from a database of famous failures. Each is what the rules produce when you point them at an idea and give them nothing else.
Five of its creator's ideas went in. Four came out dead — each with cited evidence.
Cause of deathIncumbent costs $9/month, and two identical OSS projects sit at 0-1 stars. Nobody came.
Cause of deathTesting turned out to be the least-voiced pain of the entire lifecycle. A vacuum, not a market.
Cause of deathFree wrappers already solved the coding pain; the real blocker is paperwork no code removes.
Cause of death~32 searches, zero first-person quotes of the buyer. Only vendors voice this pain.
VerdictThe one survivor — built on the loudest documented pain of everything measured: AI sycophancy in business decisions. This page is its pre-registered smoke test. Not enough buyers → it dies too, autopsy 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.
Evidence reports already exist — good ones even link their sources. The difference is sequence and teeth: Idea Autopsy commits to kill conditions before any evidence is gathered, runs a dedicated adversarial pass against your idea, and rules KILL or PROCEED by those pre-signed rules — not by whatever tone the model woke up with. A report informs you. An autopsy decides.
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.
24 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.