$ post a project
Sit with the Gatekeeper. Talk through your idea in plain language. We email you the marketcheck — and if the space is crowded, the pivot angle we found that isn't.
01 One inbox, one magic link. No password, no second tab.
02 The Gatekeeper chats you through the spec. Plain language. No tech assumption. ~10 minutes.
03 You send it for marketcheck. We run web search + a deep model. Takes a few minutes.
04 Email lands: brief + verdict. If the space is crowded but we found a better angle, you decide — original, pivot, or kill it.
05 Once you say go, the matching engine pings devs in your tier band. Verified humans only.
What you get during beta — free until intake fees go live at v1 — is a conversation with the Gatekeeper that turns "I have an idea" into a validated brief real developers will read seriously. The Gatekeeper has interviewed every dev in the matching pool. It knows which projects fail, which spec gaps kill teams in week three, and which questions you haven't thought to ask.
The marketcheck is the part most platforms skip. We run it before any dev sees the brief. If the space is saturated, we don't just thumbs-down — we look for a pivot. Your idea, a different angle, one that isn't already cluttered. You decide whether to take it.
The brief that comes out the other side gets you matched with verified-tier developers picked for contrast — one optimist, one critic, mixed ages and energy levels. Mix-not-match. Teams that ship, instead of teams that fail in unison.