Roommate money app
We help college students who share an apartment with two or more roommates.
Sample team · Oct 25Build
Is your idea worth building?
Validate the problem, rank the competition, and make the call.
Meet the five agents who test your idea
This preview follows a script for the coach and the judge until the club switches on the AI. The research is real: Reddit posts, App Store reviews and app data, each linked.
How it works
Five agents take turns on your idea, in the order a good mentor would. The first one talks with you. The other four do the research and the judging.
- Coach
Asks one question at a time until your idea fits in one testable sentence.
Sharpen - Researcher
Reads Reddit threads and one-star App Store reviews for real complaints, in customers' own words.
Dig - Analyst
Lines up the apps already solving it, with their ratings, prices and gaps.
Scan - Skeptic
Makes the strongest honest case for parking your idea, so you hear it first.
Devil's advocate - Judge
Scores Pain, Reach and Edge, then makes the call: Build, Pivot or Park.
Verdict
Sample reports
Each report links every claim to the post, review or app it came from. These are dry runs on sample ideas, with real research.
Subway exit guide
We help baruch students who commute by subway.
Sample team · Oct 27Pivot
Campus textbook resale
We help CUNY students who buy required textbooks every semester.
Sample team · Oct 27Build
How it decides
Complaints are only a start. CEO Signal weighs what people do about a problem and what they already pay to fix it.
The same rules apply to every idea, and every score in a report links to the evidence behind it.
Three scores, from 0 to 10
- Pain
- What happens the day this goes wrong, what people do about it today, and what that costs them.
- Reach
- Whether you could name ten of these people and message them this week, and where they already gather.
- Edge
- Why you: what you know, or who you know, that others don't.
Three calls
- Build
- Pain and Reach are both 7 or more, and there is a visible gap in what exists today.
- Pivot
- The pain is real, but the audience, the solution or the angle is wrong.
- Park
- The pain is shallow, the audience is out of reach, or an incumbent leaves no gap. Parking early is a smart decision.
The evidence ladder
- Talk
- Someone complains, or says they would use it. The weakest signal.
- Action
- Someone built a workaround, switched tools or searched hard. The target for your first week.
- Money
- Someone pays for a bad solution or asks where to buy. The proof that settles it.
Bring your idea to club hours
The Start-Up Development committee runs CEO Signal with pilot teams. Come by Thursdays, 12:30 to 2:30 PM, in NVC 2-140.