Ideas · 2025-10-16

How to Use AI to Score Your Business Ideas Objectively

You have three ideas. All feel like winners. How do you choose? DemandSonar's "Idea Scorecard" ranks up to 5 ideas side-by-side using 15 weighted factors. Weightings were derived from a regression on 8,000 startup outcomes. Factors include Demand Score, team-skill fit (manually input), market timing, competitive moat, viral coefficient potential, and capital efficiency. Each factor gets a numeric rating, then the AI computes a composite "Founder-Opportunity Fit Score." In a live session, we watched a founder compare "SaaS for yoga studios," "marketplace for used kilns," and "AI meal planner." Scores: 48, 29, 71. The AI flagged that the meal planner had a 91 Demand Score, 24% transactional intent, and a steep 3-month trend. The others were weak on monetization. He chose the meal planner, launched, and is now doing $19K MRR. Scoring removes emotion. You don't need a favorite idea; you need a high-score idea. [Score your ideas now →]

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