Market sizing, competitor maps, and demand signals, from 50+ live sources. Every claim source-linked.
Preuve AI is a startup validation tool that scans 50+ live data sources - including Crunchbase, Google Trends, Reddit, Product Hunt, and G2 - to generate a viability score, map up to 15 competitors with funding and pricing data, and surface blind spots before you build. Over 5,500+ startup ideas have been analyzed across 13 industries since 2026. According to CB Insights, 42% of startups fail because there is no market need - the blind spot Preuve AI catches. Free scans take 60 seconds. Full Founder Reports cost $29 one-time with a 14-day report guarantee.
5,664+ ideas analyzed|Free|No human reads your idea
AI market research in minutes with Preuve AI
AI market research is the process of analyzing a market with live data instead of guesswork: market size (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitors, pricing, and real demand signals. Preuve AI is an automated market research tool that runs the full analysis in minutes across 50+ live data sources including Crunchbase, Google Trends, Reddit, and G2. Free scan, $29 founder report. The output: market sizing, a competitor map, demand signals, blind spots, and pivot options, with every claim linked to a public source. Unlike generic market research software or a chatbot, every number is verifiable.
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10 AI agents. 50+ live sources. One score you can trust. Powered by Opus 4.8.
AI market research in one scan. 10 AI agents pull live data from 50+ sources: market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitor analysis, demand and community signals, trends, and pricing benchmarks. Every claim linked to its source.
No live data. The LLM generates agreeable analysis.
0-29
1%
30-39
2%
40-49
4%
50-59
8%
60-69
15%
70-79
42%
80+
28%
Median: ~78-Feels good. Means nothing.
Preuve AI · 5,500+ ideas
Earn your score
10 AI agents. 50+ live sources. Every claim cross-checked and linked.
0-29
1.2%
30-39
3.6%
40-49
25.1%
50-59
30.3%
60-69
21.5%
70-79
15.5%
80+
2.8%
18.3% score 70 or above. If yours does, it earned it.
Score distribution based on a rebuilt April 2026 benchmark set drawn from 4,000+ startup ideas analyzed by Preuve AI.
The part other tools skip
We throw out unsourced numbers. No source, and the funding figure is gone.
We drop fake competitors. Look-alike domains and dead links get cut.
We'd rather show less than show wrong. If the agents can't prove a claim, it doesn't ship.
A low score isn't a rejection. It's a fix list.
Why research misleads
Where founders waste their market research.
Good data, wrong conclusions: the 4 research traps that sink founders.
Trap 01
Surveying the wrong people
Friends, your existing audience, and anyone who likes you will validate anything. Real market research samples the segment that would actually pay, even when the answer stings.
Trap 02
Trusting an unsourced AI number
A market size or competitor list from a chatbot with no source links is autocomplete, not research. If you cannot click through to where the number came from, assume it is wrong.
Trap 03
Skipping the competitor map
"There are no competitors" almost always means you did not look hard enough. Indirect competitors count. Manual workarounds count. Doing nothing counts.
Trap 04
Researching the market, never the buyer
Desk research sizes the opportunity; it cannot tell you if anyone will switch. Pair the data with 5-10 buyer conversations before you commit a single sprint.
The questions founders ask before they trust a market research tool.
A market research tool gathers and analyzes data about a market, its customers, and its competitors so you can make a decision without weeks of desk work. The best ones size the market (TAM/SAM/SOM), map real competitors and pricing, and surface live demand signals. Preuve AI does all three in minutes and links every claim to a public source.
Define the buyer and the problem, measure demand (search trends, community signals on Reddit, Quora, niche forums), map competitors and how they price, then size the market bottom-up: reachable buyers times price. Finish with 5-10 buyer conversations. Preuve AI automates the first four steps across 50+ live sources; the buyer calls still take human time.
Market research gathers the evidence: market size, competitors, demand, pricing. Market validation is the decision you make with it, whether enough people will actually pay. Research comes first and is mostly desk work; validation is confirmed by buyers and revenue. Most tools blur the two. Preuve AI gives you the sourced research and a viability verdict, then tells you which claims still need a buyer conversation.
A free Preuve AI scan takes about 60 seconds; a full founder report (50+ sources, market sizing, competitor map) takes 8-12 minutes. Manual desk research runs 2-6 weeks, and a market research firm charges $15K-$50K for a comparable brief. The buyer interviews on top of any of these still add 2-3 weeks.
It depends entirely on whether the claims are sourced. AI is reliable for the data-heavy parts (market size, competitor landscape, demand signals, pricing) when every number links back to a real source you can check. It is unreliable when a chatbot states a market size with no citation, which is autocomplete, not research. Preuve AI links every claim to a public source so you can verify it before it goes in a deck.
Free with the Preuve AI scan. $29 for the full founder report (50+ sources, competitor map, market sizing, pivots). Generic market research software runs $20-$200/mo, data aggregators like Statista $199-$1,399/mo, and enterprise platforms (CB Insights, PitchBook, AlphaSense) start around $1,000/mo. A market research firm charges $15K-$50K per project.
A Preuve AI report includes bottom-up market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), a competitor map with pricing, real demand and community signals, pricing benchmarks, regulatory and execution risks, a list of blind spots, and a 0-to-100 viability score. Every claim links to the source it came from, across regulatory filings, funding databases, market research firms, Reddit, and more.
For the breadth (market size, competitors, demand, pricing) AI does in minutes what a firm bills weeks for, at a fraction of the cost. What it cannot replace is primary research: 5-10 buyer interviews and a pre-sell. The best workflow is AI for the sourced desk research plus a handful of buyer conversations for the depth.
