Skip or Ship — Validate by Industry
A SaaS idea and a fintech idea need very different scrutiny — regulatory pathway, sales cycle, and defensibility patterns vary hugely by industry. Pick your category to see the specific scoring notes, benchmarks and example verdicts that apply.
Validate your SaaS idea with churn-aware, CAC/LTV-aware scoring. Free SaaS-specific validator scores demand, defensibility, and unit economics in 30 seconds.
Validate your B2B SaaS idea with sales-cycle-aware scoring. Free validator checks ACV realism, procurement friction, and enterprise defensibility.
Validate your ecommerce idea with margin-aware, retention-aware scoring. Free validator checks contribution margin, CAC payback, and repeat-purchase mechanics.
Validate your mobile app idea with retention and ASO-aware scoring — monetisation, discoverability, and Day-30 retention.
Validate your fintech idea with regulation-aware scoring. Free validator checks FCA licensing path, banking partnership requirements, and compliance timeline.
Validate your healthtech idea with clinical and regulatory-aware scoring — MHRA pathway, data privacy, and clinical validation needs.
Validate your edtech idea with outcome-aware scoring. Free validator checks learning-outcome evidence, institutional sales cycle, and B2C vs B2B2C model fit.
Validate your marketplace idea with liquidity-aware scoring. Free validator checks chicken-and-egg risk, take-rate realism, and supply-side defensibility.
Validate your proptech idea with adoption-aware scoring — agent/landlord friction, transaction realism, and regulation.
Validate your foodtech idea with supply-chain-aware scoring — unit economics, logistics, and food-safety regulation.
Validate your AI startup idea beyond the wrapper trap. Free validator checks defensibility against foundation-model updates, data moat, and distribution edge.
Validate your agency or productised service idea with margin-aware scoring. Free validator checks service scalability, pricing model, and utilisation economics.
Validate your subscription box idea with churn-aware scoring. Free validator checks retention curve realism, curation defensibility, and CAC payback via LTV.
Validate your wellness or health-coaching idea with credibility-aware scoring — trust signals, retention mechanics and regulatory limits. Free, no signup.
Validate your creator-economy idea with audience-dependency-aware scoring — platform risk, monetisation mix and audience-to-revenue conversion. Free.
Validate your hyperlocal or neighbourhood idea with density-aware scoring — local demand density, service-radius economics and single-market risk. Free.
The ten scoring categories are the same everywhere, but which of them decides the outcome varies enormously by category. A SaaS idea usually lives or dies on defensibility — whether anything stops a funded competitor shipping your feature set within six months. A fintech idea lives or dies on regulatory pathway, where approval timelines can exceed a startup's entire runway. A marketplace lives or dies on liquidity, because neither side shows up until the other one has.
Each validator below states which signals dominate for that category, the benchmarks that apply — typical churn, margin, sales cycle — and worked example verdicts showing what a Ship, Fix and Skip actually look like there. The scoring engine is identical; the context around it is what differs.
Plenty of ideas do. A healthtech marketplace faces clinical regulation and liquidity at the same time. Use the validator closest to your primary risk — usually whichever would kill the business fastest if you got it wrong — then run the idea itself through the main validator, which handles cross-category and novel ideas without assuming a template.
To model the numbers behind a verdict, the free calculators cover market size, break-even and unit economics, and the glossary defines the benchmarks each validator references.
Direct answer — Validate by Industry
16 industry-specific idea validators tailored to the signals that matter for each category.
Describe your idea and the Skip or Ship engine returns a Ship, Fix, or Skip verdict with a full 10-category score breakdown — free, in 30 seconds, no signup.
Different industries have fundamentally different risk profiles — a SaaS idea lives or dies on defensibility against feature-copying, a fintech idea lives or dies on regulatory pathway, a marketplace idea lives or dies on liquidity. The scoring engine weighs the same 10 categories but the industry-specific notes tell you which signals matter most for your category.
Yes — use the closest matching industry validator for context, then run your specific idea through the main idea validation tool, which handles cross-industry and novel category ideas.
The scoring engine is identical. These pages add industry-specific context — benchmarks, scoring notes, and example verdicts — to help you understand what a strong idea looks like in your specific category before you validate your own.
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