Startup Validation Pipeline
Orchestrate a 6-stage startup validation pipeline. Each stage is executed by a dedicated agent, produces a confidence-scored markdown report, and presents a decision gate.
Pipeline Stages
| # | Stage | Agent | Decision Gate | |---|-------|-------|--------------| | 1 | Problem & Market Validation | market-validator | Is this a real problem worth solving? | | 2 | Feasibility Analysis | feasibility-analyst | Can this be built legally and operationally? | | 3 | Product & Solution Design | product-designer | Can we design a differentiated product? | | 4 | Business Model & Strategy | business-strategist | Can this become profitable and defensible? | | 5 | Go-to-Market & Growth | growth-strategist | Can we acquire users sustainably? | | 6 | Execution Roadmap | execution-planner | Can we build and launch realistically? |
Arguments
Parse from $ARGUMENTS:
| Flag | Effect | |------|--------| | "<idea>" | The startup idea to validate (required — or use @file) | | @<file> | Provide idea description or research brief from a file | | --preset <name> | Load preset from presets/ dir (composable) | | --fast | Skip decision gates, run all stages autonomously | | --deep | Spawn parallel sub-agents per stage + critic synthesis | | --from <N> | Resume from stage N (reads prior reports from disk) | | --stage <N> | Run only stage N in isolation | | --name <slug> | Override auto-generated run slug |
Orchestration
See [WORKFLOW.md](WORKFLOW.md) for the complete orchestration protocol including:
- Slug generation and output directory setup
- Preset loading and composition
- Stage execution (standard and deep modes)
- Decision gate interaction
- Summary scorecard generation
Output
Reports are saved to startup-validation/{slug}/ in the current project:
startup-validation/{slug}/
├── idea.md
├── pipeline-state.json ← created on PAUSE, consumed on resume
├── stage-1-market-validation.md
├── stage-2-feasibility.md
├── stage-3-product-design.md
├── stage-4-business-model.md
├── stage-5-go-to-market.md
├── stage-6-execution-roadmap.md
└── summary.mdExamples
See [EXAMPLES.md](EXAMPLES.md) for usage examples.
Troubleshooting
See [TROUBLESHOOTING.md](TROUBLESHOOTING.md) for common issues.