Wardict: the Warden's verdict on your business idea
Get a brutally honest verdict on your business idea.
A structured validation report with strengths, weaknesses, competitors, risks, and practical next steps before you waste time, money, or reputation.
Fair. Evidence-backed. Occasionally savage.
Over 90 business ideas validated
Case Filing Form
Plead your case
Describe your idea in 2–5 sentences (minimum 20 characters). The Warden will deliver the Wardict.
The complete loop
From gut-feel idea to an evidence-backed decision.
Wardict doesn't stop at a score. It runs the full loop so you know what to build, how to test it, and when to walk away.
Real product · sample verdict
Exhibit A: The Case File
What the Warden gives you
Not another chatbot opinion. A structured verdict: a 0–100 Wardict Score against a published standard, with the analysis to back every point of it.
The Wardict Score
Five dimensions, each scored 1–20 and summed to a 0–100 verdict. Judgment follows the analysis, never the other way around.
- Market Pull1–20
- Buyer Clarity1–20
- Distribution1–20
- Competitive Edge1–20
- Execution Risk1–20
Every verdict includes
The Brutal Truth
The one thing most likely to kill it, said plainly, with what to do about it.
SWOT
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, laid out as evidence.
Buyer Power Map
Who holds the budget, feels the pain, and can veto the deal. Plus the point where deals die.
Competitors & Market
Who already owns the fight, and the timing case for moving now.
Conditional Outcomes
The base case, the upside it only works if, and the downside it fails faster if.
Evidence Log
The claims the verdict rests on, each with its source.
Every verdict is stamped with the methodology version it was judged under.
Procedure
How the trial works
Plead Your Case
Describe your idea in plain English.
The Warden Reviews
The Warden weighs risk, competitors, positioning, and your path to execution.
Get Your Verdict
A scored ruling with the critique, the risks, and the move that matters next.
Save the Case
Keep your verdict in the Evidence Locker, a free account, yours to revisit.
Objection
Why a generic chatbot can't replace this
A flattering chatbot tells you what you want to hear and hands everyone a different answer with no standard behind it. A verdict has to be accountable to something.
A generic chatbot
- An opinion that shifts with how you phrase the prompt.
- A different answer for everyone: nothing to compare against.
- No structured output: nothing to benchmark, revisit, or compare.
- Confident, unfalsifiable, and accountable to nothing.
The Warden
- A verdict scored against a published, versioned rubric.
- The same standard applied to every idea, every time.
- Remembers every case, and where enough exist, benchmarks yours against comparable ones.
- Every ruling traceable to the exact standard behind it.
The standard, the corpus, and the human calibration are the product, not the model. So a better base model makes the Warden sharper, not obsolete.
How the court stays honest
The standard behind every verdict
The Warden is held to a standard, checked by people, and sharper with every case, which is why a better base model lifts it rather than replacing it.
A published standard
The rubric is public and versioned. Every verdict is judged against the same defined structure.
Read the rubric →Comparable cases
Where the corpus is large enough, Wardict shows how an idea compares with similar cases judged under the same standard.
A growing evidence record
Saved cases, validation outcomes and real-world follow-ups make the system more useful over time.
A human panel
Flagged and sampled verdicts are routed to a human panel of founders and investors, and recurring blind spots are encoded into the next version of the rubric. A human always decides what is real and how to encode it, so the standard sharpens with expertise, not just model upgrades.
Case Files
See the Warden at work
Illustrative case files: the score, the top risk, and the move that matters next.
SaaS Idea
“AI-powered contract review tool for freelancers”
Enterprise incumbents moving downmarket
Validate with 20 freelancers who lost money on bad contracts
Local Business
“Meal prep delivery for gym members”
Crowded meal-kit market with venture-backed players
Pre-sell to 10 PT clients before building a kitchen
Consumer App
“Social network for dog owners in your city”
Facebook Groups already serve this audience for free
Find the specific interaction that Facebook Groups fail at
Discovery
When the stakes rise, the Warden goes deeper
The free verdict is the arraignment. When you're serious about an idea, open the full case file.
Validation Plan
A landing-page demand test with clear pass/fail thresholds and a contextual brand guide, ready to build, deploy, and track.
Competitor Cross-Examination
A close look at your rivals and the simplest opening left for you to beat them.
Recovery Plan
The concrete steps to fix the biggest problems with the idea and make it stronger.
Verdict Strengthening Plan
The specific constraints to relax to turn a shaky case into an airtight one.
Publish a Wardict-hosted demand-test page, capture real emails, and track every experiment on your validation board, so the score can move on real-world evidence, not just argument.
On the Record
Frequently asked questions
What is Wardict?
Wardict is an AI-powered business idea validator. You plead your case, and the Warden renders a structured verdict on whether the idea looks viable, risky, confused, or already halfway to the grave. It is designed to give founders brutally honest feedback before they waste months building something nobody asked for.
Who is Wardict for?
Wardict is built for first-time founders, indie hackers, side-project builders, serial experimenters, accelerator applicants, vibe-coders and corporate innovators who need a fast, unbiased read on a business idea before committing serious time, money, or reputation.
How is Wardict different from asking ChatGPT?
General AI chat is flexible, but inconsistent. Wardict is designed around a repeatable verdict structure, a consistent scoring rubric and evidence-backed analysis. The point is not “an AI opinion.” The point is a comparable case file you can revisit, share, and argue with.
What is included in the free version?
The free version gives users three verdicts per day. It includes the core verdict breakdown, scoring, SWOT, market and competitor analysis, evidence log, Buyer Power Map, conditional outcomes, and other key sections.
Closing Argument
Court is in session.
Your idea is about to get a fair trial.
The Warden is strict, but useful. Every verdict includes what works, what fails, and what to do next.