Business Idea Pressure Test
Get five skeptical perspectives, one GO / RESHAPE / KILL verdict, and the cheapest test of your idea's weakest assumption.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
This is an interesting idea and there are definitely some good angles to it. Recording and summarizing meetings could be useful for teams that have a lot of calls. The market for productivity tools is pretty crowded though, so you'd need to think about differentiation. There are some privacy concerns with recording that you might need to work through. Competition is fierce in this space. You should research what other similar tools are doing. There might be opportunities but also challenges to consider. Have you thought about your go-to-market strategy? What would make people choose your tool over existing ones?
5-ANGLE PANEL ROAST → CRITIC: Privacy nightmare in regulated industries (healthcare, finance face legal liability); GDPR consent per-call is friction; users distrust cloud recordings; incumbents already have compliance baked in → CHAMPION: Async meeting review is genuinely painful today; early-mover on recording+AI = defensible (integrations, tuning); low churn if summary becomes mandatory in orgs → ANALYST: Market TAM is 15M knowledge workers; willingness to pay tops out at $15/seat/mo (vs Slack at $12.50); winner takes 40% share max → INVESTIGATOR: All three incumbents (Slack, Grain, Otter) ship this 2026 Q2 as bundled feature; differentiation window closes in 6 months → CUSTOMER: I'd use it only if it worked in my calendar/Slack; separate login = dead; needs to route summaries somewhere I actually read them JUDGE VERDICT: RESHAPE → Cheapest test: Build a Slack bot summarizer for existing call links; measure adoption and summary quality before building recorder. If users don't review summaries, recording is irrelevant.
About this skill
Everyone likes your idea, but nobody has explained why customers would switch, how you would reach them, or whether each sale makes money. Put it through five skeptical perspectives and get one blunt GO / RESHAPE / KILL verdict, backed by the cheapest test of the assumption most likely to sink it.
What it does
- Restates your idea as a buyer, problem, offer, price, and acquisition path so vague claims become testable.
- Applies Critic, Champion, Analyst, Investigator, and Customer perspectives without pretending simulated opinions are market evidence.
- Checks switching friction, substitutes, purchasing behavior, delivery costs, and acquisition economics.
- Separates fatal flaws from problems a narrower customer, offer, or delivery model could fix.
- Designs one bounded experiment with an observable commitment, decision threshold, and stopping rule.
What you get
A concise pressure test with the strongest case against the idea, its strongest defensible advantage, the assumptions behind the verdict, and one next experiment. Missing details produce an explicitly provisional assessment instead of invented market facts or a questionnaire before any useful work.
Best for
Founders, independent builders, creators, and small teams deciding whether to build, narrow, or abandon a business idea before committing significant time or money.
SKILL.md preview
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name: business-idea-pressure-test
description: Pressure-tests a business idea through Critic, Champion, Analyst, Investigator, and Customer perspectives, then gives one GO / RESHAPE / KILL verdict and the cheapest test of its decisive assumption. Use when the user says "roast my idea", "pressure-test this business", "stress-test my plan", "validate this before I build", "convene the panel", "give me a brutal second opinion", "everyone likes this but nobody buys", or "/roast".
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