01The problem it's built for
Most crowdfunding post-mortems focus on launch day: the video didn't land, the press never came, the algorithm buried the page. But by the time a campaign goes live, the outcome is usually already mostly decided — by a funding goal that was never checked against real costs, a story only the creator understood, or a warm audience that didn't exist yet.
Those gaps are almost always fixable. What's missing is a plain, honest way to see them before the launch date is set, without hiring a consultant or reverse-engineering a hundred campaign pages. That's the whole idea here: a fixed set of questions, a fixed set of weights, a number you can recompute yourself, and a clear list of what to work on first.
The free assessment is the actual product. The $39 plan exists for the moment right after you see your score and think "okay — now what?"
02What it is, and what it isn't
- A fixed, stage-aware scoring framework across nine readiness factors — every weight is published.
- Deterministic. Two people who answer the same way get the same score, every time.
- AI is used after the score, to write the explanation and recommendations from your own answers.
- A verifiable badge: anyone can check the score, the date, and the methodology version behind it.
- A prediction. A high score means you're well prepared, not that you'll fund.
- A consultant. It won't know things you didn't tell it.
- An AI opinion about your idea. The number never comes from a model.
- A guarantee of anything — which is why the paid plan is refundable for 14 days.
03How it's run
The scoring rules and question weights are versioned, and every score records which version produced it — so a badge issued today still means what it meant when it was issued, even after the framework improves. Your assessment answers are used to build your report and nothing else; the privacy policy spells out exactly what's stored, for how long, and which AI provider sees what.
The site is small on purpose. No accounts, no subscriptions, no dashboard to log into. You answer ten questions, you get a score, you get a report, and if you fix things you can come back and re-score.
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