Is this just a GPT wrapper?

No. Five-step pipeline: market sizing, competitive map, 10× claim test, risk synthesis, recommendation. Different model and guardrails per step. The reasoning trace, source pipeline, and falsifier check are all visible.

Where do your sources come from?

Tier 1: SEC, USPTO, Gartner, FRED, peer-reviewed research, customer interviews. Tier 2: trade press and case studies. Tier 3: G2, Hacker News, Reddit. Context, never fact. Every citation is tier-marked.

What if you get the verdict wrong?

Every recommendation names what would change the call. If something is wrong on our end (a broken citation, a hallucinated number no source supports, a verdict that contradicts the evidence we ourselves surfaced), refund or re-run, your choice. Email support@tryverdikt.app within fourteen days with what specifically went wrong; we review each request on the evidence. Disagreement with the recommendation, when the cited evidence supports it, is a judgment call and not refundable.

Will you train on my idea?

No. Zero data retention on every provider in our stack: Anthropic and OpenAI at launch, with Google Gemini and Cohere added as the pipeline scales. Briefs are not logged, trained on, or retained beyond request lifetime.

Can I really get a verdict in under 1 hour?

Most verdicts finish in 20 to 40 minutes, depending on industry complexity. You see a live progress trace as the pipeline runs. If we miss the 1-hour mark on a standard report, refund or re-run, your choice.

Is this for ideas, or for startups already running?

Both. Pre-revenue ideas get a build, pivot, or kill verdict with a 12-week execution path. Operating startups get the same memo format applied to defensibility, the next round, or a pivot decision.

Who's behind Verdikt?

Verdikt is built by Tuaha Jawaid and Farzan Ansari. Every report is generated by the same pipeline they use on their own ideas, with the same tier-graded sources and the same falsifier loop. Questions go straight to the cofounders at hello@tryverdikt.app.

Build, pivot, or kill. Decided in hours.

Pitch in a sentence. Get a verdict backed by 40+ cited sources, with the kill criteria named.

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Workspace/NDA copilot · Brief

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TEAM

Two technical cofounders. Prior exit at Stripe (eng) and Latham (legal ops). 14 mo together.

THESIS

AI-native legal review wedges into boutique IP firms where partner time costs $400+/hr.

PROBLEM

writing

Paralegals lose 4 to 7 hours per NDA. Partner review adds another 90 min on average.

ICP

Verdikt

writing

Got it. Before I size the market, I need the wedge ICP. Pick the one buyer you can win in the next 90 days and the workflow you replace first.

Boutique IP firms, 10 to 40 attorneys. Paralegals draft NDAs today, partners redline. We replace the paralegal draft.

Which ICP segments will you sell into in year one? pick up to 3

Solo practitionersBoutique IP firms (10-40 attorneys)Mid-market general practiceAmLaw 200In-house legal at SaaS scale-upsLegal ops consultancies

SkipI don't know yet

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Why I'm asking: this answer changes how Verdikt frames competition and GTM for the rest of the brief.

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FOUNDERS

2 founders, exit at Pacta ($42M, 2022)

THESIS

Bottom-up via NDA review, expand to MSA + DPA

MARKET SIZE

$3.1B U.S. legal ops software, 14% CAGR

COMPETITION

Ironclad, Spellbook, Harvey. Different wedges.

Recent activity

Thesis captured from founder input

Problem section started writing

Reference URLs ingested from Crunchbase

Market sizing confirmed against Gartner

THE OUTPUT

Anatomy of a verdict.

A real memo, fully marked up. You'll know exactly what you get before you pay.

The lede2

One sentence a partner can quote in twelve seconds. No hedges.

Kill criterion4

The single fact that would reverse this verdict. Named upfront, not buried.

Confidence6

Calibrated on source quality and tier mix. Not vibes.

BUILD · STRONG

"The 10× claim survives benchmarking. The moat is the ingestion graph, not the model."

ProblemMid-market fintechs spend 4–6 wks of senior eng time per audit cycle

Market$4.0B TAM · 28% CAGR · WTP $2.4K/seat

Kill criterionVanta ships ingestion-graph parity within 18 months. 35% probability.

SOURCE [12]

Drata S-1 filing · audit prep mentions, p. 47-52sec.gov/Archives/.../drata-s1-2025.pdf

TIER 1

CONFIDENCE BAND

GENERATED

Verdikt pipeline · v3.7GENERATED · 12 MAY 2026 · 08:14 PST

1Verdict

Build, Pivot, or Kill. Decision-grade. Never a maybe.

3Four facts

Problem, market, moat, risk. Each with a defensible number.

5Sourced

Every claim footnoted to a tiered source. Click the number, get the filing.

BUILD · STRONG

"The 10× claim survives benchmarking. The moat is the ingestion graph, not the model."

ProblemMid-market fintechs spend 4–6 wks of senior eng time per audit cycle

Market$4.0B TAM · 28% CAGR · WTP $2.4K/seat

Kill criterionVanta ships ingestion-graph parity within 18 months. 35% probability.

SOURCE [12]

Drata S-1 filing · audit prep mentions, p. 47-52sec.gov/Archives/.../drata-s1-2025.pdf

TIER 1

CONFIDENCE BAND

Verdict

Build, Pivot, or Kill. Decision-grade. Never a maybe.

The lede

One sentence a partner can quote in twelve seconds. No hedges.

Four facts

Problem, market, moat, risk. Each with a defensible number.

Kill criterion

The single fact that would reverse this verdict. Named upfront, not buried.

Sourced

Every claim footnoted to a tiered source. Click the number, get the filing.

Confidence

Calibrated on source quality and tier mix. Not vibes.

FROM IDEA TO EVIDENCE

How your verdict gets built.

Three stages. From your one-sentence pitch to a memo you can defend in any room.

01Brief
12 calibrated
02Research
~42 per verdict
03Verdict
One-page memo

Brief

Pin down the claim.

A loose pitch becomes testable assumptions: buyer, price, wedge, and the evidence that would change your mind.

Start a brief

BRIEF

Pitch in. Testable assumptions out.

9 min

12 questions

BUYER: Series B fintechs · 80–250 eng
WEDGE: Audit-evidence assembly speed
PRICE: $2,400 / seat / year
KILL: Vanta parity within 18 months

Research

Every source checked in the open.

Sources are tiered, checked, and logged as the pipeline runs. The reasoning trace is auditable, not a black box.

See the methodology

RESEARCH

Tier-graded source ingestion.

Live

28of ~42 sources

T1Primary filings
14
T2Analyst & review
9
T3Operator signals
5

Verdict

A one-page memo. Decision-ready.

One page. The recommendation, four facts, named kill criteria, and a footnote on every claim.

See a sample verdict

VERDICT

Sourced. One page.

5h 22m

BUILD · STRONG

“The 10× claim survives benchmarking. The moat is the ingestion graph.”

Market: $4.0B; 28% CAGR
Confidence: High; 14 T1 sources
Kill at: 35%; Vanta @ 18mo

WHAT YOU GET

What every report ships with.

Same-day delivery. Every claim cited. Refund or re-run if it's not defensible.

CONVERSATIONAL INTAKE

It interviews you.

Four to eight calibrated questions. Voice, deck, URL, or one sentence in.

Which buyer do you win in the next 90 days?

Indie hackers shipping to their first launch.

What band would they pay in today?

$19 – 49$49 – 99$99+

4 of 12

Pitch any way you want.

Voice on a walk. A deck. A URL. One sentence in a textbox.

Voice note30 to 90 sec
Deck or docPDF · Keynote · Notion
URL pasteLanding · tweet · repo
One sentenceWe ask the rest

A price signal, not a guess.

Triangulated from buyer language, comparable pricing, and substitute cost.

STRONGSignal

$79 – $129/ mo

Confidence4 of 5

Comps$89 · $119 / mo

Stack, tools, and the prompt to paste.

When the verdict is build, you get the four-week plan, not a pep talk.

StackNext.jsSupabaseTailwindStripeResend

Starter promptPaste in

123

Build a Next.js page that takes an invoice URL and returns line items, client, and next payment risk.

ToolsCursorLovableBoltClaude Sonnet 4.6

Pivots, scored.

Two or three directions ranked on signal strength. Not generic adjacency.

Accounting firmsStrong

AP automationModerate

BookkeepersWeak

Three ideas in. One pick out.

Side-by-side comparison. A named winner with reasoning.

Invoice copilotBuild

MKT: 8.4
BLD: Low
WTP: Strong

OUR PICKAI receipts for accountantsBuild

MKT: 8.9
BLD: Low
WTP: Strong

Mobile spend trackerPivot

MKT: 5.7
BLD: Med
WTP: Weak

Trust audit

The Verdikt on .

Three concerns we hear on day one. Here's what we say back.

Not a wrapper

“Just another GPT wrapper?”

Five models. Five steps. A real research pipeline, not one big prompt.

Methodology

ZDR enforced

“What about my data?”

Zero retention on every provider. Not logged, not trained on.

Provider clauses

Refund or re-run

“What if it's wrong?”

Every verdict names what would change the call. If we miss it, refund or re-run, your choice.

Accountability

vs. the alternatives

A quick answer is not the same as a decision.

Get a verdict

Verdikt
- Buyer & pain
  Segment, pain, price named.
- Traced sources
  40+, tiered T1 to T3.
- Risks first
  Kill criteria stated up front.
- Next experiment
  Named, with a budget.
Time to artifact
<6hr
Segment, pain, price named.
40+, tiered T1 to T3.
Kill criteria stated up front.
Named, with a budget.
<6hr
Generic chatbot
- Buyer & pain
  Generic, no segment.
- Traced sources
  No citations.
- Risks first
  Reads like a disclaimer.
- Next experiment
  None proposed.
Time to artifact
10min
Generic, no segment.
No citations.
Reads like a disclaimer.
None proposed.
10min
DIY memo
- Buyer & pain
  Founder knows them cold.
- Traced sources
  Real links, manually gathered.
- Risks first
  Only if you keep the discipline.
- Next experiment
  Buried under spreadsheet sprawl.
Time to artifact
8hrs
Founder knows them cold.
Real links, manually gathered.
Only if you keep the discipline.
Buried under spreadsheet sprawl.
8hrs
Outside analyst
- Buyer & pain
  Sharp, distant from operators.
- Traced sources
  Tier-1, well sourced.
- Risks first
  Listed, rarely weighted.
- Next experiment
  Recommends, doesn't instruct.
Time to artifact
2wks
Sharp, distant from operators.
Tier-1, well sourced.
Listed, rarely weighted.
Recommends, doesn't instruct.
2wks

Verdikt is the only row that completes the contract.

<6-hr decision file40+ tiered sourcesnamed change rule

SOURCE LIBRARY

Where the numbers come from.

The same primary sources VCs use to underwrite term sheets, M&A diligence, and analyst reports.

40+ sources per verdict. Every claim numbered, every link live, every source tier-graded.

SEC EDGAR

Gartner

Bloomberg Terminal

USPTO

IDC

The Information

FRED · St. Louis Fed

Forrester

Reuters

BLS · Labor Statistics

CB Insights

Financial Times

USGS

PitchBook

MIT Tech Review

SEC EDGAR

Gartner

Bloomberg Terminal

USPTO

IDC

The Information

FRED · St. Louis Fed

Forrester

Reuters

BLS · Labor Statistics

CB Insights

Financial Times

USGS

PitchBook

MIT Tech Review

NIH · PubMed

Crunchbase Pro

Stratechery

FDA Filings

Tracxn

Harvard Business Review

Federal Register

McKinsey Quarterly

TechCrunch · Strictly VC

Eurostat

BCG Insights

Axios Pro

Hacker News

G2 · Capterra

Reddit · r/SaaS

Product Hunt

Glassdoor · Levels.fyi

Wayback Machine

NIH · PubMed

Crunchbase Pro

Stratechery

FDA Filings

Tracxn

Harvard Business Review

Federal Register

McKinsey Quarterly

TechCrunch · Strictly VC

Eurostat

BCG Insights

Axios Pro

Hacker News

G2 · Capterra

Reddit · r/SaaS

Product Hunt

Glassdoor · Levels.fyi

Wayback Machine

+ 60 MORE · UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY · SOURCE LIBRARY VERSIONED

ManifestoPre-launch dispatch

Filed May 2026

Every partner and founder asked for the same four things: one recommendation, numbered claims, live links, and the falsifier that would change the call. So we built it.

Tuaha Jawaid and Farzan AnsariCofounders · Verdikt

On the record

Pending

Named testimonials appear here once the first cohort ships. Until then, the memo above stands.

FAQ

The questions every founder asks before paying us.

Straight answers. Scope, sources, what we won't do.

ENOUGH READING

Submit an idea. Get a verdict.

Target under 1 hour. $49.99 for the first one. Refund or re-run if it's not defensible.

Get my verdict · $49.99 See a sample first

Build, pivot, or kill. Decided in hours.

Anatomy of a verdict.

How your verdict gets built.

Pin down the claim.

Every source checked in the open.

A one-page memo. Decision-ready.

The Verdikt on .

A quick answer is not the same as a decision.

Verdikt

Generic chatbot

DIY memo

Outside analyst

Where the numbers come from.

The questions every founder asks before paying us.

Submit an idea. Get a verdict.