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AI Business Idea Generator

Scored startup ideas tailored to your skills and conditions

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What's your business position?

Questions will be optimized based on your position

No credit card required / Results in about 3 minutes

HOW IT WORKS

Find your winning path in 3 steps.

01

Structure your startup conditions

Enter your skills, network, capital, risk tolerance, and timeline step by step. Optimized for individuals, teams, and corporate innovation.

02

AI scores your business ideas

Claude AI generates 3 business ideas based on your unique conditions. Market potential, feasibility, and profitability are visualized on a 100-point scale.

03

Auto-generate competitor & market reports

The Pro plan generates detailed reports with web research — including competitor analysis, market sizing, demand signals, and go-to-market strategy.

WHY IDEAVALU

The most-chosen AI business idea generator for aspiring founders

Solve the three biggest startup blockers — "I can't come up with an idea," "I can't write a business plan," "market research takes weeks" — in one AI workflow.

Tailored to your unique conditions

Not generic templates. IDEAVALU generates ideas using your specific skills, network, capital, risk tolerance, and timeline. Claude AI explores opportunities across industries and surfaces only the ones that are realistically actionable for you.

vs. Other AI idea generators and generic ChatGPT prompts only handle coarse inputs like "persona" or "industry," leaving you to customize everything by hand.

Quantitative 3-axis scoring out of 100

Each idea is scored 0-100 on market potential, feasibility, and profitability. Compare three ideas side-by-side and decide on numbers, not gut feel. The output is investor-ready and works as a draft for internal proposals.

vs. Traditional ideation is hunch-based with no objective comparison. Skip the manual SWOT workshop entirely.

Pro analysis grounded in real web data

One click generates a competitor map with funding rounds, TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing, demand signals, go-to-market strategy, and a 3-year scale simulation — powered by Claude AI with the web-search tool, so you get real data instead of hallucinated company names.

vs. Asking ChatGPT "who are my competitors?" risks outdated info or fabricated company names. Manual market research takes days to weeks.

Built for solo founders, teams, and corporate innovation

Optimized question flows for individual entrepreneurs, co-founder teams, and corporate new-business units. Add your company's industry, existing assets, and team skills, and the AI proposes business areas that leverage your firm's specific strengths.

vs. Most idea-generation tools assume a solo founder context and ignore corporate constraints like existing assets, mid-term plans, and org structure.

Move your startup starting line up by 3 minutes.

Turn "someday" into "this week." Free tier — 3 ideas per month, no credit card required.

SAMPLE OUTPUT

An actual diagnosis result, illustrated

Below is sample output for a fictional persona. Your own result will be generated in the same format right here on this site.

Sample input conditions

Position
Individual / ex-engineer
Core skills
Web development, data analysis
Starting capital
$20,000
Target timeline
Within 6 months
#1
87

AI inventory optimization SaaS for SMB manufacturers

Auto-suggests optimal stock levels from order history and demand forecasts. Targets small factories still on spreadsheets — averages 25% inventory reduction at $300/mo.

84Market
91Feasibility
86Profitability
#2
79

Tax filing assistant for sole proprietors

OCR for receipts and auto-classification of transactions cuts annual tax filing work to 1/10. Sized for the freelance boom; $9.80/mo subscription.

88Market
72Feasibility
78Profitability
#3
71

Rural DX talent matching platform

Matches remote-first urban engineers with rural businesses. 15% placement fee model addresses the chronic IT talent shortage outside major cities.

76Market
70Feasibility
67Profitability
PRO REPORT

Pro deep analysis (run on the adopted idea)

Key competitors (web-search based)
  • Zion Inc.Series B $8M
  • InventoryAI Inc.Series A $3M
  • SmartStock TechSeed $550K
Market size (TAM / SAM / SOM)
TAM (total addressable)
$1.2B
SAM (serviceable)
$280M
SOM (obtainable)
$25M

Full report also includes demand signals, GTM strategy, and a 3-year scale simulation.

* Sample for illustration only. Actual numbers and company names are generated each time based on your conditions.

FEATURES

Features of IDEAVALU

Everything you need to validate startups, new businesses, and side hustles — in a simple interface.

Condition-specific scoring

Your skills, network, capital, risk tolerance, and timeline are taken as structured inputs, and AI proposes ideas optimized for your unique conditions. Three axes — market potential, feasibility, and profitability — are each scored on a 100-point scale, so you can compare quantitatively instead of relying on intuition.

Web-search-based market research

Pro analysis enables Claude's web search tool to automatically collect up-to-date competitor lists, funding status, and differentiation points. Initial market research that normally takes days can be done in minutes, and the output can be used as baseline data for due diligence or internal proposals.

TAM / SAM / SOM market sizing

Business opportunities are visualized in three tiers: total addressable market (TAM), serviceable available market (SAM), and serviceable obtainable market (SOM). Each tier is shown with rationale, so it can be used directly in business plans or investor decks.

3-year scale simulation

Customer count, new acquisitions, ARPU, revenue breakdown (one-time / recurring / other), churn rate, and LTV are automatically projected year by year. Payback months and their rationale are also shown, so you can validate the path to profitability with numbers.

Individuals, teams, and corporate innovation

Beyond individual startups and side hustles, there is a corporate innovation mode where you can enter company information (industry, size, existing assets) and team member skills. Ideas leveraging your company's strengths are proposed, so it can be used as initial input for innovation workshops.

Security and privacy protection

Each user's data is encrypted and isolated with Supabase Row Level Security. Payments are processed in Stripe's PCI DSS compliant environment; card information is never stored on IDEAVALU servers. Data sent to the Claude API is set not to be used for training.

Recommended for

Individual founders

Enter your skills, capital, and risk tolerance to narrow down realistic startup ideas. Also useful for validating side hustles.

New business PMs

Use as initial input for internal workshops or as a draft for approval documents — AI provides proposals with quantitative scores.

Venture capitalists

Evaluate founder candidates' business ideas in a structured way, improving due diligence speed and accuracy.

Freelancers & side hustlers

Discover new revenue streams leveraging existing skills. The Free plan offers 3 trial generations per month.

USER REVIEWS

What users say

Highly rated by entrepreneurs, new business PMs, and side hustlers

"It proposed ideas feasible with my personal skills and capital. Business planning that used to take weeks is done in minutes. With Pro analysis I could see market size and competitors at a glance — business decisions are much faster now."

👨‍💼

Taro Tanaka

Entrepreneur

"I use it as initial input for internal new business workshops. Multiple ideas leveraging our skills and capital come out quickly, so draft approval documents are fast too. Starting discussions from the same information across the team is efficient."

👩‍💼

Hanako Yamada

New business PM

"I tried the Free plan three times a month, then switched to Starter. Multiple side hustle ideas matching my skills came out, making it easy to judge which were realistic. The detailed reports are rich, boosting my confidence in investment decisions."

👨‍🔬

Jiro Sato

Evaluating side hustles

"Seeing founder candidates use this tool to automate market research sped up our own investment decisions too. Competitor analysis and market sizing come out in minutes — applicable to streamlining due diligence as well."

👩‍💻

Yumi Suzuki

Venture capitalist

"The AI's suggestions are truly practical. With scoring across three axes — market potential, feasibility, and profitability — decision-making is quantitative rather than emotional. Internal approvals can now be explained with data."

👨‍💻

Kenta Watanabe

Corporate intrapreneur

"I use it monthly when exploring new business areas. It proposes combinations of skills and capital I didn't think I had, broadening my perspective. The web-search-based reports have up-to-date information and are reliable."

👩‍🎨

Misaki Ito

Freelancer

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is a business idea generator?+

IDEAVALU is an AI-powered business idea generator. By entering conditions like skills, network, and capital, Claude AI proposes 3 business ideas scored on market potential, feasibility, and profitability. It's used by individual founders and corporate new business teams alike to validate startup or side hustle ideas in minutes.

What kind of service is IDEAVALU?+

A SaaS that proposes 3 business ideas scored on market potential, feasibility, and profitability, based on inputs such as your skills, network, and capital. Used by everyone from individual founders to corporate new business teams.

What should I do when I can't think of a business idea?+

The biggest reason ideas don't come is lacking an objective view of the combination of your resources (skills, network, capital) and market opportunities. IDEAVALU structures your input, and AI proposes 3 scored business domains that maximize your strengths. You don't have to think from zero — you can validate starting from the proposals.

What are the benefits of generating business ideas with AI?+

When humans brainstorm alone, they tend to be bound by knowledge bias and thinking frameworks; AI learns from large-scale business cases and can present high-feasibility patterns across industries. Scoring along three axes — market potential, feasibility, and profitability — enables quantitative comparison rather than intuition.

Can I use it to generate new business ideas?+

Yes. For corporate new business teams, there is a mode to enter company information (industry, size, existing assets) and team member skills. AI proposes business domains leveraging your company's strengths, making it suitable as initial input for workshops or as a draft for internal approval documents.

Can I automate startup market research?+

Pro analysis (included monthly in Starter / Pro plans) uses Claude's web search tool to automatically generate competitor lists, TAM/SAM/SOM estimates, demand signals (search trends, etc.), go-to-market strategy, and a 3-year growth simulation. Initial market research that takes days manually can be done in minutes.

What are the pricing plans?+

Three plans: Free ($0 — 3 generations/month, only the lowest-score idea fully shown), Starter ($6.99/mo — 10 generations + 1 Pro analysis), and Pro ($19.99/mo — 30 generations + 5 Pro analyses). Monthly subscriptions that can be canceled anytime.

Which AI model does it use?+

We use Anthropic's Claude. Pro analysis enables the web search tool to provide analysis based on the latest market data.

Is my data safe?+

Supabase Row Level Security isolates your data from other users. Payments are processed by Stripe; card information is never stored on IDEAVALU servers. See our Privacy Policy for details.

How do I come up with startup ideas?+

Simply enter your skills, network, capital, risk tolerance, and timeline in IDEAVALU's step-by-step form. AI objectively analyzes combinations of your resources and market opportunities and proposes feasible ideas. Even when you can't think of ideas, organizing your conditions in IDEAVALU accelerates startup validation.

Can I create a business plan with AI?+

With the Pro plan's detailed analysis feature, you can automatically generate competitor analysis, market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), demand signals, go-to-market strategy, and a 3-year scale simulation for the selected business idea. The foundation of a web-search-based business plan is completed in minutes.

How can I find side hustle ideas that leverage my skills?+

Select 'Position: Individual' and enter your skills, network, capital, and risk tolerance. AI proposes business ideas feasible as side hustles, startups, or sole proprietorships with market potential, feasibility, and profitability scores. Discover new revenue streams while leveraging skills you already have.

Validate your business idea for free.

Input takes about 3 minutes. No credit card required.