Most founders skip straight to building and find out months later that nobody wants it. Bandos AI walks you through the work that actually matters: surface the real user needs, explore the right approaches, ask the right questions, and test with real users before you write a line of code.
Tell Bandos what you're building, who it's for, what your strengths are, and what you can deliver. Plain language. No pitch deck polish required.
If you've already done some research (interviews, surveys, anything), you can upload it now to give Bandos better context for the questions it asks you next. Optional, not required.
What's the actual problem in your target customer's life today that you want to fix?
These don't need to be proven yet. Start with what you assume they need help with. Bandos's job is to help you figure out whether your assumptions hold up. If you're stuck, the AI will generate high-quality user need definitions based on how you described your venture.
This is the fun part. For each need, what's the best way to solve it? Be creative, think outside the box. There are no wrong answers at this stage. You're putting down broad directions, not committing to anything.
Creative block? Ask the AI to suggest different directions. It's trained to facilitate divergent thinking and let you branch out into multiple paths of brainstorming, not converge on one answer too early.
Once you've captured the main needs and the solutions you think would solve them, the real work begins. Pick a need to test, then choose the solution branches you want to explore.
Go as broad or as specific as you want. Zero in on a single solution for a focused 30-minute interview, or build a wider survey script that validates several different ideas across that need's branches at once.
The point is to make it as low-effort as possible to ask questions, because asking questions is what separates the ventures that work from the ones that build things nobody wants. Bandos generates the right questions for you, using established frameworks at each step. You can edit, add, or remove anything before sending it out.
Run the surveys. Do the interviews. The data you collect gets synthesized automatically. AI does what AI does best: it looks for patterns and surfaces highlights that give you the information you need to evaluate your plan.
The synthesized data feeds back into your mind map. The nodes you chose to test through your surveys and interviews each get a score from 1 to 100.
We don't rely on AI alone to be the judge of whether an idea or a need is valid. The scores come from established industry standards.
A method that compares how important a problem is against how well current solutions handle it. Above 10 is a meaningful opportunity. Above 15 is a critical unmet need worth chasing.
Impact (how well it solves the unmet need), Viability (whether users would actually commit or pay), and Low Friction (how easy it is for them to adopt). We deliberately leave out how hard it is to build. At this stage, that's your problem, not the user's.
Every framework Bandos uses is grounded in published research from people who spent careers figuring out how to validate products without fooling themselves: Rob Fitzpatrick, Tony Ulwick, Bob Moesta, Clayton Christensen.
The principle running through all of it: revealed preference beats stated opinion. What someone actually did last Tuesday tells you more than what they say they'd do next month. Every question Bandos generates is built around that.
Bandos also detects whether you're operating in a B2B or B2C context and adapts the questions accordingly.
Type it in. This is exactly Step 01 of your real Bandos workspace.