AI business idea validation platform.
FLAME scores your business idea across three AI models simultaneously, scans Reddit and Hacker News for real market demand signals, and generates a 30-day action plan to ship. Built and operated by Build AI Studio. Live at goflame.ai.
A four-step flow that scores your idea, validates demand, and produces a 30-day action plan you can execute against.
2 minutes
Drop a 1 to 3 paragraph description of the business idea you want to validate. Add target market, differentiator, and any context that helps the AI score it accurately.
~30 seconds
FLAME runs Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity simultaneously. Each model produces an independent score, strengths, weaknesses, and risk factors. Outputs are reconciled into a unified report.
~1 minute
Two-step Reddit JSON API + HN Algolia + focused Perplexity query. Surfaces real conversations from real people experiencing the problem you're solving — with links and quotes you can verify yourself.
Always free
FLAME generates a week-by-week action plan with concrete next steps: validation interviews, MVP scope, pricing experiments, marketing channels. Designed for execution, not for inspiration.
Eight production features tuned for solo founders, indie builders, and internal R&D teams that need to validate ideas faster than the typical "talk to ten customers" loop.
Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity run in parallel. Each scores independently, then FLAME reconciles into a unified report with confidence intervals and disagreement flags.
Two-step Reddit JSON API + Hacker News Algolia search + focused Perplexity query. Surfaces real conversations and pain points, not LLM hallucinations.
Week-by-week plan with concrete steps. Validation interviews, MVP scope, pricing experiments, marketing channels. Execution-focused, not inspirational fluff.
20 production-grade prompts across 6 categories. Deep-dive market research, competitor analysis, monetization strategy, distribution, technical feasibility, and post-launch.
Pro tier feature. Build your own prompts with FLAME's scoring rubric attached. Save them, run them across multiple ideas, version them like code.
Track multiple ideas over time. Edit and re-score as your hypothesis evolves. Compare ideas side-by-side. SQLite-backed with user scoping.
Refine your idea description and re-run scoring instantly. FLAME sends the full composed idea string each time, so scores stay consistent with your latest framing.
Privacy-respecting analytics built in. Track which ideas you score most, where the dropoff is, and which prompts deliver the most value to your validation flow.
Pre-built research prompts that go deeper than the standard "is this a good idea?" question. Available on the Pro tier.
Total addressable market, customer segments, geographic concentration, willingness-to-pay benchmarks.
Direct competitors, indirect alternatives, gaps in the market, defensibility, pricing landscape.
Pricing models, tier design, conversion funnels, expansion revenue, churn benchmarks for the category.
Acquisition channels, content strategies, community-driven growth, paid vs organic, partnership angles.
Build complexity, infrastructure costs at scale, integration risk, technical moats, build vs buy decisions.
First 100 customers, retention experiments, support load planning, metrics that matter, when to raise vs bootstrap.
Note. The Pro Prompts Library expands over time based on customer demand. Pro subscribers get all current and future prompts at no additional cost. Custom Prompt Builder also unlocks at Pro.
Free 14-day trial, then Builder at $29/month or Pro at $79/month. Stripe billing, cancel anytime, no annual contract.
Production stack that prioritizes data privacy and US-based hosting. The same engineering that powers FLAME also powers our client validation-platform builds.
FLAME is built, operated, and supported by Build AI Studio — a California-based AI automation studio founded in 2025 by Paul "Rev" Davenport. The same studio engineering powers both FLAME and CLARA, and is available for custom validation-platform builds for accelerators, internal R&D teams, and VC scout tools.
About the studio →Sign up at goflame.ai. Three-AI scoring, Social Demand Scanner, and 30-Day Action Plans on every idea. Or email us if you have questions before you start. Reply within 1 business day.