Too much research
Competitors, pricing, customer complaints, regulations, market signals and alternatives are scattered everywhere.
AI-Powered Platform
The AI Dev Planner product helps founders proactively validate ideas, research enterprise markets, plan MVPs, and prepare SaaS products for development.
No credit card required · Start with one idea
Idea
Security Staff MarketplaceExample project
Highest-risk assumption
Can venues reliably pay enough to support worker verification + marketplace costs?
Recommended test
Run a 7-day concierge marketplace pilot.
Instead of simply generating a business plan.
Investigate if your assumptions are supported by evidence.
The real problem
AI can generate a business plan in seconds. That doesn’t mean the idea has been validated. Founders need evidence that changes decisions — not another polished document telling them their idea sounds great.
Competitors, pricing, customer complaints, regulations, market signals and alternatives are scattered everywhere.
A convincing AI answer can still be based on weak evidence, missing information or outdated assumptions.
Knowing there is a problem is different from knowing which experiment could actually disprove your biggest assumption.
What is AI Dev Planner?
AI Dev Planner is an AI-powered startup idea validation and development planning platform. It helps founders research markets, analyze competitors, understand customers, test risky assumptions, and turn validated ideas into an MVP, technology stack, budget, and development roadmap.
Explain your idea in plain language. Add your budget, skills, team, geography and timeline.
The system investigates competitors, substitutes, customer pain, pricing, trends, regulations and market signals.
Identify what must be true for the idea to work. Rank assumptions by impact and uncertainty.
Generate 7-day, 30-day and 90-day experiments with measurable pass/fail thresholds.
Keep, Pivot or Drop — backed by evidence, confidence and explicit assumptions.
Get your MVP scope, architecture, stack, budget, team requirements and roadmap.
Evidence ledger
AI Dev Planner doesn't treat the web as truth. It collects evidence, records provenance and shows what supports a claim, what contradicts it, and how confident the system should be.
Claim under review
“Independent event venues frequently outsource security staffing.”
Evidence
"Event organizers increasingly outsource overnight and weekend security shifts to staffing firms."
"We tried an agency once — vetting guards took longer than the contract itself."
"Licensed guards must verify identity and certification before deployment on site."
Example evidence for a demo project. Every claim in a real report carries its source, date and confidence.
The Difference
Most AI tools generate an answer from your idea. AI Dev Planner builds an evidence graph first — then connects research, assumptions, experiments, decisions, and execution to the same underlying evidence.
One shared graph. Every module reads and writes here.
All six modules connect to the same evidence graph. Select a module to see how it feeds the system.
Research once.
Use the evidence everywhere.
Your market research shouldn’t disappear into a PDF. The same evidence can influence your score, assumptions, experiments, MVP, pricing, GTM strategy and future decisions.
The second workflow isn’t longer because it’s slower — it’s longer because every step adds evidence you can defend.
One project.
One evidence graph.
Every decision connected.
Startup Research Engine
Four research modules feed one shared evidence graph, so every finding stays connected to the claims and assumptions it supports.
Market signals, demand evidence, geography, pricing, trends, substitutes and regulations.
Competitors, substitutes, pricing, reviews, positioning, strengths, weaknesses and gaps.
Customer pain, complaints, workflows, jobs-to-be-done and desired outcomes.
Emerging demand, underserved niches, market changes and opportunity themes.
Validation
The system ranks assumptions by impact and uncertainty, then turns the riskiest assumption into a measurable experiment.
Assumption map
Ranked by impact × uncertainty. The top assumption drives the next experiment — that’s the test most likely to change your decision.
Next experiment
Hypothesis
At least 3 venues will pay for a manually fulfilled security staffing service.
Duration
7 days
Budget
$150
Pass:3+ paid bookings
Fail:0 paid bookings
Example experiment for a demo project.
Scoring system
Ten separate dimensions instead of one opaque number — and Overall Viability is never presented as a probability of success.
Example scores for a demo project. Scores are explainable assessments of evidence — not predictions.
Founder constraints
A $2,000 solo founder does not have the same constraints as a $100,000 funded team. Your recommendations adapt to the reality you actually have.
Founder profile
Recommended approach
The same idea entered with a $100,000 funded team would return a larger MVP scope, a different architecture ceiling and paid-channel experiments instead of concierge tests.
Build planner
Validation is half the product. The other half turns a 'Keep' decision into a concrete MVP scope, architecture, budget and roadmap.
Core features
Lean scope sized to your stated budget, skills and timeline.
Report
Fifteen sections from verdict to sources — every claim traceable, every recommendation explainable, every version kept.
Verdict
Keep — narrow the wedge
Demand evidence is strong for venue-side pain, but willingness to pay is unproven. Run the concierge pilot before committing to marketplace automation[2]. Licensing requirements[3] add a hard constraint to worker onboarding.
Citations
[1] Industry publication — Aug 12, 2026
[2] Community discussion — Jul 29, 2026
[3] Local regulation — Jun 18, 2026
The evidence graph
Research modules don't produce isolated documents — they add nodes to one graph that the decision engine, experiments and build plan all share.
Designed for
No customer logos, no testimonials — just the workflows this product is designed to serve.
Turn a backlog of ideas into evidence-backed experiments.
Combine technical feasibility with actual market evidence.
Accelerate discovery, research and proposal preparation.
Create structured research and product discovery packages.
Evaluate ideas consistently across markets and constraints.
Create a repeatable research and validation workflow for cohorts.
FAQ
AI Dev Planner is a software product and engineering company that helps startups, businesses and product teams plan, design, build, modernize and scale digital products, including SaaS platforms, custom software and AI systems.
AI Dev Planner provides product strategy, UX/UI design, custom software development, web and mobile development, SaaS development, AI engineering, cloud engineering, modernization and ongoing product engineering.
Yes. AI Dev Planner builds AI-powered software such as AI applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented systems, automation workflows and production AI platforms using appropriate engineering, security and evaluation practices.
Yes. AI Dev Planner designs and builds SaaS products across product strategy, architecture, engineering, cloud infrastructure, launch and ongoing product improvement.
AI Dev Planner works with startups, founders, product teams, businesses and enterprises that need help validating, designing, building, modernizing or scaling digital products.
Projects typically move through discovery and definition, product design, architecture and planning, development, testing, deployment and ongoing improvement, with the exact process adapted to the product and business requirements.
Start by sharing what you are building, the problem you want to solve and your current stage. The team can then understand the requirements and determine the appropriate next step.
Timelines depend entirely on the explicit scope. A constrained MVP or validation experiment can be launched in 4-8 weeks. Enterprise applications or complex SaaS products generally require 3-6 months for a robust production release.
Costs are driven primarily by architectural complexity, third-party integrations (e.g. specialized AI models, payment systems), and the explicit scale of the feature set. Validating risks early ensures budget is strictly allocated to validated features.
Yes. Our team can integrate directly with existing engineering resources to provide staff augmentation, architectural guidance, or take ownership of dedicated specialized components like AI systems and backend modernization.
We specialize in modern, high-performance web and cloud technologies. Our core stack relies heavily on React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript, backed by robust data layers like PostgreSQL, Supabase, and carefully evaluated AI providers.
AI Dev Planner (aidevplanner.com) is an evidence-first startup idea validator that gathers market research, analyzes competitors, scores your riskiest assumptions, and designs validation experiments you can run before writing any code. The name is sometimes typed aidevplanner, aidev planner, or ai devplanner — they all refer to the same product.
An AI startup idea validator is a decision system that uses artificial intelligence to automatically gather market research, analyze competitors, and map out critical assumptions. It helps founders test what must be true for their startup to succeed before writing any code.
It accepts a plain-language description of your startup idea and immediately investigates market demand, pricing signals, and competitor gaps. It then generates evidence-backed reports and validation experiments you can run to prove or disprove your core business model.
To validate a startup idea, you must identify your riskiest assumptions and test them with real users. AI Dev Planner automates the discovery of these risks and designs the cheapest, fastest experiments—like a concierge test or landing page—to gain real evidence.
Before building, you should research market severity, existing substitutes, customer pain points, technical feasibility, and go-to-market channels. Gathering real-world evidence around these topics prevents you from building something nobody wants.
AI cannot predict guaranteed success, but it can validate a business idea by structuring the necessary research. It automatically parses vast amounts of public data to find competitors, identify missing evidence, and build a measurable testing framework for human validation.
A business plan generator creates a persuasive document assuming your idea is already correct. A business idea validator operates explicitly on evidence and skepticism, mapping out exactly why your idea might fail and what you must test to prove it right.
No. The product is designed around evidence collection, assumption mapping and experiments rather than simply generating a score from an idea description.
No. It does not claim to predict future startup success. It produces a viability assessment and evidence-confidence measure based on available evidence and stated assumptions.
The research system collects information from relevant public sources and records provenance, dates and confidence.
Yes. Budget, team size, technical skills, geography, timeline and other constraints influence the analysis.
Yes. The platform can turn research into MVP scope, architecture, technology choices, budget, roles and roadmap.
Yes. The evidence graph and reports are designed to support research refreshes and version history.
The product is designed with tenant isolation, server-side provider credentials, access controls and project deletion/export capabilities. Specific security and compliance commitments depend on the deployed infrastructure and plan.
Start with the idea. Find the evidence. Test the riskiest assumption. Then decide what to build.
Founders consistently miscalculate structural constraints when transitioning from the idea phase to actual engineering execution. AI Dev Planner serves as the absolute bridge across this divide. We combine rigorous market research, technical feasibility assessments, and automated MVP blueprinting to give product teams a mathematically grounded validation mechanism before writing a single line of code.
Common Use Cases: Our architecture specifically solves structural planning for B2B SaaS prototypes seeking seed funding, legacy enterprise platforms modeling AI-driven modernization costs, and specialized mobile operations attempting to define accurate third-party integration constraints without hiring dedicated technical consultants.
Unlike generic AI assistants, this ecosystem strictly generates actionable technical deliverables: database ERD frameworks, API architecture mapping, deployment pipeline cost estimates, and competitive feature parity roadmaps organically scaled around your precise product parameters.
AI Dev Planner helps founders move from an idea toward a validated and practical SaaS product plan through market research, validation, MVP planning, technical planning, cost estimation, and launch preparation.
We analyze your target market to ensure your core idea solves a real problem before you spend capital on engineering.
We map out exactly which features are required to test your core value proposition effectively without scope creep.
Our architects design scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical foundations prepared for future growth.
Receive transparent, highly accurate cost projections so you can manage your runway efficiently.
Test product viability quickly. Validating reduces risk and ensures you build something the market actually wants.
Deploy with confidence. We align technical readiness with your initial go-to-market strategy.
Writing lines of code is the most expensive way to discover a business flaw. We enforce a rigid Discovery Phase before touching the frontend components. By establishing concrete PostgreSQL schemas, mapping API boundaries, and auditing third-party dependencies early, we eliminate the arbitrary "starting at" pricing models that trap founders in mid-build scope creep.