Rank #1

Pain Point #1: "Then came the questions: IP assignments, ownership, vesting schedules, clean cap table… and I realized half of what we’d built wasn’t even ours on paper." … "panic-lawyering starts." … From 40+ founders: "33% have no shareholder agreement … 40% don’t own their own IP … 47% haven’t issued shares … 53% have no vesting … 87% have never done a mock due-diligence." (Post 20)

Opportunity: Auto-DD Clean Room for founders — a 72-hour “raise-ready” sweep that:
- Connects to GitHub/Bitbucket, Google Drive/Docs, Notion, DocuSign/HelloSign, Slack, and your payroll/HRIS.
- Auto-detects IP ownership gaps, missing assignments, unissued founder shares, vesting/83(b) issues, contractor IP holes, repo ownership misalignment.
- One-click generates remediation docs (IP assignments, PII/DPAs, contractor agreements, founder vesting/acceleration, invention assignment), routes for e-sign, pushes a clean cap table into Carta/Pulley, and assembles a data room with an investor-friendly red/amber/green report.
Pricing: $2,500–$5,000 “Clean in 72h” package + $199/mo monitoring; rush fee +$1,500.

First 10 Customers:
- Founders/COOs at AI/B2B SaaS startups with 5–30 employees planning to raise in 30–120 days.
- Program managers at accelerators/venture studios (Techstars-style) prepping cohorts for Demo Day.
- Platform/Operations leads at seed funds that want portfolio “compliance-ready” before follow-on.
- Fractional CFOs/GCs serving 5–20 early-stage clients.

MVP in 48 Hours:
- Webflow landing + Calendly + Stripe checkout.
- Intake Typeform asking stack (repos, doc tools), cap table snapshot, contractor list.
- Manually run an audit checklist: export GitHub org repos/ownership, search Drive/Notion for “IP assignment,” “invention,” “vesting,” reconcile with cap table spreadsheet template, generate missing docs via pre-built templates (Google Docs), route via DocuSign. Package results in a Notion data room + PDF heatmap.
- Deliver in 72h to 1–2 pilot startups for a testimonial.

Justification:
- Demand: Direct founder pain and stats: "I realized half of what we’d built wasn’t even ours on paper." "panic-lawyering starts." "33% have no shareholder agreement … 87% have never done a mock due-diligence."
- ROI: Prevents blown term sheets and 4–8 weeks of emergency legal work ($10k–$50k). Closes the round faster; reduces legal spend by 50–80%. Founders get a clean data room in 3 days.
- Scalable: Standardized checklists + API connectors + doc templates + e-sign. Expand via accelerator/VC channel partnerships and per-portfolio bulk pricing. Ongoing monitoring is automated alerts.
- Purple Cow/Controversial: “Lawyers will hate this.” It automates what’s been opaque and expensive, plugs into the dev/doc stack, and produces an investor-grade report with specific remediation—something Carta/Clerky don’t auto-scan across your actual tools.


Rank #2

Pain Point #1: “After my small company got suspended from LinkedIn, it was extremely time consuming and painful to get reinstated… did you lose real revenue while waiting? And, what actually sped up reinstatement?” + “Amid the SEC lawsuit… Tai Lopez has taken down his official YouTube channel… I wonder why he only terminated YouTube. Or maybe YouTube deleted it.”

Opportunity: Platform Suspension Insurance + Rapid Reinstatement + “Lead Mirror” kill switch for LinkedIn/YouTube/Instagram/TikTok
- What it does: 
  - Preemptive compliance scanner for pages, ads, outbound patterns, and domains (flags phrases/links/behaviors that trigger automated bans).
  - Instant “Lead Mirror”: continuously sync and back up LinkedIn form leads, followers, DMs, and ad audiences into your CRM/email/SMS so you don’t lose your pipeline if suspended.
  - AI appeal-pack generator tailored to each platform’s policy language; human advocate escalations.
  - 72-hour reinstatement sprint with money-back SLA.
- Pricing:
  - $1,500 onboarding (policy scan + mirror setup), then $299/month per brand.
  - Emergency incident-only: $2,500 per suspended asset with 72-hour SLA; $5,000 same-day escalation.
  - Add-on: $99/month per ad account for continuous policy drift monitoring.

First 10 Customers:
- Head of Growth/Marketing at B2B SaaS (10–200 employees) whose outbound relies on LinkedIn pages/ads/employee profiles.
- Agency owners managing multiple client ad accounts on Meta/TikTok/LinkedIn.
- Solo consultants/coaches who acquire via LinkedIn posts/DMs and LI Lead Gen Forms.
- Ecom brand CMOs who rely on Instagram/TikTok Shops and creator collabs.
- Creator managers for channels >100k subs where a 1-week takedown = $10k+ lost.

MVP in 48 Hours:
- Webflow landing page + Calendly + Typeform intake for suspended account triage.
- Zapier + HubSpot/Airtable to create the “Lead Mirror” (auto-sync LI Lead Gen, IG DMs via approved connectors; export connection data through user-provided LI data download; scrape public pages with Robolly/PhantomBuster where ToS-compliant).
- OpenAI + policy templates to generate tailored appeals; build a Google Doc library of platform policy citations.
- Simple “risk scanner” in a Bolt.new clone: paste post/ad copy/URLs, return risk flags using rule sets + LLM.

Justification:
- Demand:
  - “After my small company got suspended from LinkedIn, it was extremely time consuming and painful to get reinstated.” (Post 3)
  - “Tai Lopez YouTube Account Deleted… Amid the SEC lawsuit.” (Post 7) [real-time reminder of platform fragility]
  - “What changed everything was realizing that most of the prospecting pain comes from bad data and lack of context.” (Post 43) [losing LI access nukes prospecting context]
- ROI:
  - If a B2B team loses LI for 7 days and books 3 demos/day @ $1.5k LTV/demo, that’s ~$31,500 pipeline lost. A $2.5k rapid reinstatement pays for itself in 24–48 hours.
  - “Lead Mirror” preserves owned lists, cutting downtime revenue loss by 50%+.
- Scalable:
  - Standardized policy checks, templated appeals, and repeatable playbooks; add channels as connectors. Agencies become channel partners.
- Purple Cow/Controversial:
  - Money-back reinstatement SLA + proactive lead mirroring is a bold “insurance” positioning.
  - Exposes and mitigates silent risks like Stripe/Meta/LI automated flags—timely in an era of opaque platform enforcement.


Rank #3

Pain Point #2: "Scheduled 12 customer calls, 11 never showed... I essentially just wasted half the week!" (Post 21)  
Reinforced by discovery/early-user angst: "Finding the first users for your startup is the hardest part… Is there a platform that matches startups with early adopters?" (Post 8)

Opportunity: ShowUp Guarantee — pay-per-show, ICP-matched customer interviews with deposits, overbooking, and instant replacements.
- We screen and recruit your exact ICP, collect a small refundable deposit from participants, issue SMS/WhatsApp/email reminders, overbook intelligently, and guarantee 90%+ attendance. If someone no-shows, we auto-insert a standby within 15 minutes.
- Includes incentive payout, consent, recording, and transcript. You only pay for attended interviews.
Pricing: $59 per attended interview (+ your incentive budget) or $499/mo for 10 guaranteed shows; enterprise packs for PM/UX teams.

First 10 Customers:
- Founders/PMs at seed-stage B2B SaaS (0–20 employees) running discovery/retention interviews.
- UX Researchers at Series A–B product teams needing guaranteed cadence (5–20 interviews/week).
- Indie makers with 500–5,000 users needing fast feedback on features/pricing.
- Growth leaders at dev tools/fintech wanting high-signal qualitative before GTM changes.

MVP in 48 Hours:
- Typeform (founder intake) + Airtable (participant pool + ICP matching) + Tally (participant signup) + Stripe (hold $5–$20 refundable deposit) + Twilio (SMS reminders) + Calendly (scheduling with buffer/overbook) + Zoom links auto-generated.
- Manually recruit first 50 participants via LinkedIn/Slack communities; run the overbook + standby process by hand. Guarantee shows or refund.

Justification:
- Demand: "Scheduled 12 customer calls, 11 never showed… wasted half the week!" Founders openly ask for a “platform that matches startups with early adopters” to avoid this grind.
- ROI: Saves 10–20 founder hours/week; ensures weekly research cadence; reduces incentive waste from no-shows; faster product decisions improve retention/activation within sprints.
- Scalable: Build specialty panels by ICP; repeatable playbooks; deposits/reminders/overbooking automated; expand into moderated/unmoderated tests and recurring cohorts; marketplace flywheel over time.
- Purple Cow/Controversial: The refundable-deposit + overbooking stance is bold in UX research. Many platforms shy away; we make “attendance SLAs” the product and guarantee replacements in 15 minutes.