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Ideas & Founders
Triage idea inflow, AI-screen with citation-evidence, run the weighted scorecard and match founders — into Go/Kill (step 5).
Venture Guide: Digna — Run Gate 0 against the studio thesis and sign the verdict.
Your ranked idea feed
T2
Triage inbound, sourced and referred ideas into a ranked feed.
Dogfood-demo: Clearly-labelled dogfood demo: the 6 companies (MyStdy · Servicely · DifferenZ · Exponic · Digna · Kollied) are companies Espen holds a stake in, used ONLY as demo data to exercise the engines — never as proof that venture building works. Every demo row is flagged dogfood and held out of every client-facing aggregate (DEL 98-3).
AI screening — citation evidence
Scan of whitespace/market/inbound → ranked candidates. Each candidate points to its source (can't be promoted without).
DifferenZ trail · positioningtriage 92
Hits the studio thesis on 3 term(s) — market window open now.
↳ Whitespace scan (class 2): Whitespace: Nordic SMB brand-building without tooling support
Service-tech whitespacetriage 72
Hits the studio thesis on 1 term(s) — market window open now.
↳ Market data (class 2): Market data: service businesses lack an operational backbone (plan→deliver→invoice)
EdTech activation gaptriage 58
Hits the studio thesis on 1 term(s) — market window open now.
↳ App scan (class 3): App scan: student activation weak in existing study apps
AI-governance inboundtriage 58
Hits the studio thesis on 1 term(s) — market window open now.
↳ Inbound (class 4): Inbound: request for auditable AI governance in regulated sector
Weighted scorecard
7 criteria × 0–5 × weight → normalised 0–100. Each contribution is shown (glass-box).
Top candidate: 77/100 (Σ 58 / 75)
Market pull
4×3=12
Thesis-fit
5×3=15
Founder-fit
3×2=6
Why-now
4×2=8
Defensibility
3×2=6
Evidence strength
4×2=8
Capital efficiency
3×1=3
Founder pool — register-seeded match
Transparent overlap match (no ML); each hit shows its basis. GDPR delete button, never scraped.
Founder A (register-seeded)Board-role overlap + industry NACE
78%
Founder B (register-seeded)Co-founder history
61%
Founder C (register-seeded)Shared ownership in an adjacent company
44%
Proposed
Triage inbound, sourced and referred ideas into a ranked feed.
Live commit · demo store
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