Handbook
Everything IdeaNavigator AI does, explained.
A complete, illustrated tour of the product: how a researched idea is generated and scored every day, the intelligence graph underneath every page, and a detailed catalogue of all 70 features across 53 reports — for readers, founders, and AI agents.
On this page
How it works
The daily pipeline, end to end.
Two researched ideas publish every day. Each step feeds the next; the whole flow runs unattended and deploys itself.
Scoring
How the verdict is made.
Every report is scored against five weighted criteria (rubric INAV-VALIDATION-2026-06-04). The verdict band follows the total.
The intelligence graph
13 entity types, one ontology.
Live census of /graph.json: 472 entities and 950 provenance-stamped edges. Explore it at /explore/.
Every edge carries provenance
The core artifact
Anatomy of a report.
One page, top to bottom — a decision instrument with machine-readable exports.
Read & discover
Finding ideas
The front door. Every visitor can read the full archive with no account and no paywall; personalization is optional and stays in your browser.
Today
liveThe newest published opportunity brief, with prev/next navigation.
The generator publishes daily from the Mac-mini pipeline; /today/ resolves to the highest-dated report.
/today/Archive
liveThe full back-catalogue, filterable by market, vertical, difficulty, confidence, tag, and save state.
A static index over every report's frontmatter; filtering and saves are client-side.
/archive/Search
liveSite-wide search across ideas, verticals, playbooks, collections, tags, and pages.
Runs against a prebuilt /search-index.json; a query can be saved as a standing monitor.
/search/For You
local-firstRecommended reports for your founder profile that learn from what you save, hide, and open.
The v2 recommender blends archetype + keyword fit with a local affinity vector; empty history reproduces the neutral ranking exactly.
/for-you/Tags
liveEvery tag with its idea count and a per-tag analysis page (markets, related ideas, risks).
Generated at build time from report tags.
/tags/Updates
liveThe editorial feed of new ideas, trends, and market shifts.
Content-driven; the mechanical entity-level record lives at /changes/.
/updates/The core artifact
Anatomy of an idea report
Every report is a decision instrument, not a prompt. One page carries the verdict, the evidence behind it, the economics, and everything needed to test or build — plus machine-readable exports for agents.
Verdict (Build / Validate / Research / Rethink), 0–100 score, confidence, and this-week's test up top.
A 5-criterion weighted rubric scores every report; see the Validation section below.
/today/7-day validation sprint
A dated day-1→day-7 plan to test the riskiest assumption cheaply.
Derived deterministically from the report's buyer, evidence, and validation test.
Economics & offer ladder
Price-anchored revenue scenarios (proof / wedge / vertical-leader) and a tiered offer.
Computed from the report's monetization model and buyer.
Audience intelligence
liveSegments, channels, intent keywords, messaging angles, and objections per report (HTML + .md, per idea at /audience/<slug>/).
Derived from buyer, problem, and community signals.
Execution scorecard
liveTime-to-execute score, bottlenecks, accelerators, and a dated launch plan (HTML + .md + .ics).
A readiness model over the execution plan; the launch plan exports to your calendar.
/execution-scorecard/Connections block
graphThe report's links in the intelligence graph: complaint evidence, trend seed, adjacent verticals, sibling reports — each with provenance.
Precomputed from the ontology graph; declared evidence is shown before inferred.
Competitive landscape & 'who's moving here'
Incumbents, substitutes, whitespace, plus public companies/funding the graph links to the vertical.
Prose analysis joined with the company/funding signal lane.
Lifecycle & timing window
graphA stage (Emerging→Validating→Heating→Crowding→Cooling) and a 0–100 market-timing score.
Deterministic rules over re-check trajectory, demand, saturation, and complaint decay.
Pivot map, founder lens, roast
Adjacent wedges, founder-fit scoring, and a hard-questions 'roast' of blind spots.
All derived from the report's structured frontmatter.
Exports
agentsEach report as .json, .md, .ics (calendar), backlog.json (GitHub/Linear issues), and a print/PDF dossier.
Static endpoints + a chromium print-to-PDF step in the pipeline.
/developers/Top-down intelligence
Vertical & market intelligence
Every report is classified into a fixed 14-industry ontology, then rolled up so you can see where validated signal concentrates and where the whitespace is.
Verticals index
liveAll 14 verticals ranked by opportunity score.
A deterministic keyword classifier assigns each report a primary vertical.
/verticals/Vertical brief
livePer-industry: pain points, feature gaps, underserved segments, buyer personas, keywords, communities, verdict mix, momentum, and a 30-day change feed.
Aggregated from every report in the vertical, plus a vertical-weighted rubric overlay.
/verticals/The cross-vertical command deck: opportunity league table, verdict heatmap, whitespace radar, evidence-flow, cross-vertical bridges, orphaned-evidence radar, momentum, and a what-changed strip.
Built from the vertical brief + the intelligence graph.
/intelligence/Market insights
liveKeyword signals, community lanes, and market clusters across the archive.
From the trend-discovery layer.
/market-insights/Themes
liveEmergent, bottom-up clusters that cut across the fixed verticals.
Deterministic union-find over shared significant terms between reports.
/themes/Verdict calibration
liveThe score distribution, exactly which criterion blocks each near-miss from Build, and a graph-grounded thesis-confidence signal.
Makes the rubric threshold a measured choice, not a guess.
/calibration/The ontology spine
The intelligence graph
One typed, provenance-stamped knowledge graph sits under everything: 13 entity types and the links between them, fingerprinted on every publish so you can see what changed and when. Built at build time — no database, no runtime cost.
Graph explorer
liveAn interactive force-directed map of the whole ontology; click a node for its neighborhood and edge provenance.
Client-side render over /graph.json with a deterministic seed layout.
/explore/A browsable page per non-report node — clusters, trends, tools, companies, funding, adoption signals, regulations, job roles, personas, keywords, communities.
Generated for every entity with enough links to be worth a page.
/entity/Change log
liveThe mechanical, entity-level diff ledger: what was added, updated, or removed, filterable by vertical and entity type.
A daily fingerprint of the graph; corruption-guarded and idempotent.
/changes/Evidence provenance
liveAn independence score per report: how many distinct source domains back it, the declared/classified/inferred mix, and a single-source-family flag.
Aggregates per-edge provenance across all evidence lanes.
/provenance/Momentum
graphWeekly time-series per vertical from the change ledger — which industries are gaining over time.
ISO-week aggregation with sparklines; richer every day.
/intelligence/Cohort decay curves
liveHow each publish-week's ideas age as a group (30/60/90-day survival).
Replays the ledger + re-check signals at each age band.
/cohorts/graph.json
endpointThe full graph: typed entities + provenance-stamped edges (INAV-GRAPH-1).
Static endpoint; the same data behind every graph surface and the MCP graph tools.
/graph.jsonHonest scoring
Validation & decision tools
The product is built to test, not to hype. The verdict is a transparent weighted rubric, the bar is real (a near-zero Build rate), and several surfaces help a team turn a report into a defensible decision.
Validation rubric
liveFive weighted criteria — demand, severity, willingness-to-pay, saturation, feasibility — scored 1–10 with reasoning and evidence.
Versioned rubric; see the weights chart above. Verdict bands: Build ≥80, Validate 65–79, Research 50–64, Rethink <50.
Vertical-weighted re-scoring (e.g. liability-bearing severity counts more in healthcare/legal).
14 weight profiles, each summing to 1, applied over the same criterion scores.
/verticals/Decision memo builder
local-firstAn exportable go/no-go memo (per idea at /decision-memo/<slug>/): verdict + kill criteria + your team's stance + recommendation.
Assembled from frontmatter plus local inputs; exports to Markdown/print and can be shared as a link.
Head-to-head pages
live'Idea A vs Idea B' decision matrices (at /vs/<a>--vs--<b>/) comparing validation, economics, difficulty, and founder fit.
A curated, capped set of genuinely comparable pairs (~167), with JSON-LD and a .json companion.
Score a thesis (agents)
agentsAgents run their own candidate idea through the live rubric.
The ideanavigator_score_thesis MCP tool + a deterministic thin-payload adapter.
/score-rubric.jsonYours, locally
Personalization & workspace
All personalization is local-first: founder profile, saves, monitors, and digests live in your browser. No account, nothing sent to a server.
Founder archetype
local-firstA short quiz that sets your founder type and feeds recommendations.
Stored in localStorage; merged into the For-You score.
/founder-archetype/Founder fit
local-firstScores a specific report against your skills, access, time, capital, and sales comfort.
Client-side scoring over your profile.
/founder-fit/Idea generator
local-firstMatch markets/skills/budget/style to a research handoff.
Local matcher over the archive.
/idea-generator/Workspace & compare
local-firstYour saved-idea profile and a side-by-side comparison table.
localStorage-backed; exportable.
/workspace/Shortlist links
local-firstSend a saved shortlist to a co-founder — the whole list is encoded in the URL.
A base64url codec; the recipient renders cards from /ideas.json, no backend.
/shortlist/Monitors
local-firstWatch verticals, entity types, or saved searches; see what moved since you last looked.
Diffs /changes.json against your last-seen, locally.
/monitors/Your digest
local-firstA personalized 'what changed for your thesis' combining monitors, momentum, and fresh reports.
Assembled client-side from your watchlist.
/digest/From idea to build
Execution & building
The handoff trilogy — what to test, when to do it, and what to build — plus the prompts and exports that move an idea from a page into the tools you actually work in.
Idea builder
local-firstCopy-ready prompts: landing page, ads, brand, MVP PRD, interview script, teardown, roast.
Templated from the report; runs in the browser.
/idea-builder/Turn a report + start date into a dated 30-day milestone plan.
Deterministic plan generator; exports calendar + backlog.
/execution-accelerator/Sprint tracker
local-firstTrack a validation sprint's progress locally.
localStorage-backed checklist.
/sprint-tracker/Calendar handoff (.ics)
agentsEvery report's dated execution plan as a downloadable calendar.
Standards-compliant VCALENDAR per report and scorecard.
Backlog export
agentsAn idea's milestones, kill-criteria, and build prompt as ready-to-import GitHub/Linear issues.
A normalized backlog.json + copy-as-CLI scripts; ideanavigator_get_backlog for agents.
Decision dossier PDF
liveA forwardable investor/decision PDF of the report's visuals and analysis.
Generated in the pipeline via the chromium print harness.
Draft a brief (agents)
agentsTurn a rough thesis into a graph-cited brief skeleton.
Deterministic assembly from the graph; every element cites a real entity.
/draft/Where ideas come from
Evidence & data sources
Ideas are seeded from real, mined signal — not vibes. Multiple lanes feed the graph, and the newer lanes turn it from a presence map into a velocity-and-timing map.
Complaint mining
pipelineClustered user complaints from public developer sources.
Mined daily, clustered, and linked to reports as declared evidence.
Trend bridge
pipelineLive trending terms that seed slot-2 daily ideas.
Fetched from the Stenvrik bridge; topic-gated.
/trends/AI tool landscape
pipelineA weekly snapshot of the AI assistant/tooling market.
Generated weekly; tools enter the graph.
/weekly/Company & funding signals
graphPublic competitors and funding rounds, linked to verticals and reports.
Curated seed + fail-soft fetcher; powers the 'who's moving here' panel.
Adoption-velocity lane
graphReal npm/PyPI/GitHub download & star slopes — a quantitative demand signal.
Dated time-series appended daily; feeds momentum and thesis confidence.
Hiring-signal lane
graphPublic job-posting volume as a budget-confirmed demand proxy per vertical.
Fail-soft fetch; corroborates persona entities.
Regulatory-clock lane
graphFuture compliance deadlines whose urgency grows as the date nears.
Federal-register-style records; drives 'why now' and monitor alerts.
Vertical evidence packs
pipelinePer-vertical public sources feeding under-served industries (healthcare, education, government, nonprofits).
A source-pack framework merged into the complaint flow.
Reach & accountability
Distribution & track record
The boldest honesty moves: a public record of how the site's verdicts aged, and a verified ledger of where its ideas were republished.
30-day signal re-checks plus a hit-rate / owned-kill-rate scoreboard and a calibration curve.
Resolves each report's claim against accruing signals; Brier-style binning.
/track-record/Distribution
liveVerified 'Featured in' reach: live placements, backlink rate, and reach by vertical.
Verifies the syndication log against live URLs; feeds targeting back into the loop.
/distribution/Weekly brief
liveThe weekly State-of-the-Opportunity-Map summary, with trailing history.
Generated weekly; emailed Mondays when configured.
/weekly/Moderated build-in-public claims from people building the ideas.
A moderated PHP intake (/claim/) appends approved claims.
/success-stories/Newsletter
liveAn opt-in daily digest of the new idea.
Server holds no secrets; the Mac mini sends via the email provider.
/Agent-native
Developers & agents
Everything a human can read, an agent can read structurally — keyless, static, no rate-limit games. The site itself never calls a paid API.
MCP server (18 tools)
agentsRead-only tools for ideas, verticals, the graph, changes, provenance, thesis scoring, brief drafting, backlog, distribution, snapshot verification, and more.
Ships in the repo; consumes the public JSON, no key.
/developers/JSON endpoints
endpointideas, verticals, graph, changes, themes, collections, weekly, distribution, search-index, score-rubric, metrics, per-idea .json/.md/.ics/backlog.
All statically generated at publish time.
/ideas.jsonSnapshot manifest
endpointCryptographic SHA-256 hashes of every canonical endpoint + a top digest (INAV-MANIFEST-1).
Lets a consumer pin a snapshot and detect drift; ideanavigator_verify_snapshot.
/manifest.jsonOutbound webhooks
agentsRegister a target + monitor selection and get signed POSTs when matching changes land.
PHP intake + a Mac-mini HMAC-signed fan-out, with SSRF protection on targets.
/developers/llms.txt & RSS
endpointAn agent-orientation file and site + per-vertical RSS feeds.
Static; llms.txt indexes capabilities, URLs, and conventions.
/llms.txtReference
About, legal & meta
The supporting pages: what the product is, how it compares, and the legal surface.
About & Features
liveThe mission, philosophy, and a feature overview.
Editorial pages.
/about/Benchmark
liveA public parity tracker of what's live vs planned.
Hand-maintained against the roadmap.
/benchmark/Recommended tools (affiliate-disclosed) and the affiliate disclosure.
Tagged to relevant reports.
/resources/Legal
livePrivacy, terms, contact, and impressum.
Standard legal pages.
/privacy/Reference
Agent surfaces.
All read-only and keyless. Full setup at /developers/.
18 MCP tools
ideanavigator_searchideanavigator_list_ideasideanavigator_get_ideaideanavigator_get_backlogideanavigator_list_verticalsideanavigator_get_collectionsideanavigator_get_weekly_briefideanavigator_get_playbookideanavigator_get_entityideanavigator_query_graphideanavigator_get_changesideanavigator_draft_briefideanavigator_score_thesisideanavigator_get_provenanceideanavigator_verify_snapshotideanavigator_get_distributionideanavigator_get_cohort_agingideanavigator_get_timing_window Key JSON endpoints
This handbook is generated from the live product — entity counts and the rubric are read at build time, so it stays accurate as the system grows.