moki
Idea triage before you commit the next three months

You don't need another idea. You need a faster no.

moki calls an idea Make / Hold / Kill in an honest range, then gets to the part you actually decide on: the fatal flaw, the factor dragging it down, what would flip it, and the cheapest experiment to settle it. Before it eats three months.

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Sample verdictKILL

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Score28–39 / 100
Weakest linkmarket attractiveness
The kill caseweekend-clonable, no way to get found
Live search demand▼ declining · crowded
What would flip itout of reach

Demand, not applause

“Will they actually pay — or just say they love it?”

moki pulls live Google search demand— what people are looking for this week, not what a chatbot remembers from training. Applause isn't a signal. Search volume with buying intent is.

Demand readTHIN
Buying-intent querieslow volume
12-mo trend▼ declining
Competitioncrowded
Market maturitysaturated

Where it breaks down

“Which factor actually sinks it?”

Six weighted factors, each scored as a confidence range. No single fake number, ever. moki surfaces the ones dragging the score down so you fix the binding constraint — not everything at once.

Weakest factorsLOW
Differentiation2–4 / 10
Market attractiveness3–5 / 10
Financial reward4–6 / 10
Risk (inverse)5–6 / 10

How the call gets made

“Is this a real no — or a weak maybe?”

There's no single score to argue with. Just a band, and two hard lines it either clears or doesn't. And a Hold isn't a shrug — moki tells you whether to gather cheap evidence or reshape it, based on whether the band is wide (uncertain) or tight and mediocre.

Decision rule3 ZONES
Makeworst case ≥ 65
Killbest case ≤ 40
Hold · wide bandgather evidence
Hold · tight, mediocrereshape or kill

The one move that matters

“What's the cheapest way to prove it wrong?”

Not “go talk to customers.” moki names the single cheapest experiment that shrinks the biggest unknown, and the one change that would flip the verdict to Make — if that change is even reachable. Sometimes it isn't. That's an answer too.

Your next move1 STEP
What would flip itdifferentiation → sharper edge
Reachable?no — out of reach
Cheapest experimentpre-sell before building
Shrinksthe biggest unknown
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What is moki?

moki (MakeOrKillIt) is an AI startup idea validator: an idea validation tool that's allowed to say kill. It runs your startup or business idea through a fixed academic method — a knockout gate, six weighted factors, an adversarial kill case — and checks live Google search demand a chatbot can't see. The verdict is Make, Hold, or Kill: a range and a confidence, never a fake 73 out of 100. Startup idea validation here means proving the idea wrong as cheaply as possible, not cheering you on. First idea is free, no sign-up.