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Is your startup ready to build?

Take the 3-minute readiness assessment and discover your startup score across five critical pillars, from product-market clarity to go-to-market. Find out what to fix before you spend money on development.

A readiness gauge dial with sad-to-smiling face segments from red to green, the needle pointing at Nearly Ready with a score of 62

Example report

See exactly where your startup stands

Your report scores five pillars, shows which are launch-ready and which need work, and gives you a plan for the gaps. The values below are illustrative.

62/100
Startup Readiness Score
Nearly Ready

Example score

Product-MarketClarityTechnicalReadinessResource &PlanningBrand &IdentityGo-to-MarketReadiness
  • Product-Market Clarity80/100 · Strong
  • Technical Readiness55/100 · Needs Work
  • Resource & Planning60/100 · Needs Work
  • Brand & Identity70/100 · Needs Work
  • Go-to-Market Readiness45/100 · Critical Gap
You know exactly who your product is for, but go-to-market is your weakest pillar: there is no clear plan yet for how the first hundred customers will find you.
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What you'll discover

An honest picture of where you are, and what to do next.

Your Startup Readiness Score

A score out of 100 with a radar chart of all five pillars, from Early Stage to Launch-Ready.

Your strongest and weakest pillars

Where you are already ahead, and the one or two areas most likely to derail a build if left alone.

What to fix before you build

Practical recommendations for each weak pillar, so the money you spend on development lands on solid ground.

Your next step

Whether that is validating demand, sharpening the brief, or booking a call to plan the build. Plus a shareable results link.

The five pillars we score

Twenty questions, four per pillar, based on what we have seen make or break startups we have built for.

Product-Market Clarity
Technical Readiness
Resource & Planning
Brand & Identity
Go-to-Market Readiness

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Frequently asked questions

About 3 minutes. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, four for each pillar, and two optional questions about your product. Your answers save in your browser as you go.

Yes. No charge, no trial, no account. Enter your email at the end so we can send you a copy of the report and you get your results straight away.

Founders and early-stage teams deciding whether they are ready to build an app, web app or platform. If you run an established business, the AI Opportunity Score or AI Disruption Risk Score will be more useful.

No. The questions are about your idea, your customers, your plan and your team, not about technology choices. If you do not know an answer yet, that is itself useful information for the report.

They generate your report and, if you ask for a call, help us prepare for it. We do not sell your data. Our privacy policy has the detail.

Need help building your ideas?

Tell us where you're headed and we'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of app, portal and AI developers, working in-house from Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.