Every founder knows the feeling: you share a new startup idea with friends, and they all smile and say, "That sounds awesome!"
Six months and thousands of dollars later, you discover nobody actually wants it.
Standard LLMs suffer from the exact same problem: extreme sycophancy. If you ask ChatGPT "Is my startup idea good?", it will write a 10-paragraph essay explaining why your dog-walking drone startup has trillion-dollar potential.
To fix this, I spent the last few months building val8.app - an AI validation engine that simulates a room of 45 realistic, skeptical stakeholders who debate and stress-test an idea before you write a single line of code.
Here is the architectural breakdown of how it works under the hood.
