The AI cofounder for solo founders

The AI cofounder that
validates demand before it builds.

Every "AI that builds your startup" skips the most important step: proving anyone wants it. HALO mines real complaints from where your customers already vent, ranks them, and hands you a validation script — so you interview before you build again.

Join the waitlist — 5 founding spots See how it works

Every other AI builder

Pick an idea (or let the AI pick) → build it → deploy it → run ads → hope someone wanted it. Polished output, zero evidence. Most ship into the void.

HALO

Mine real community complaints → cluster the recurring pain → RICE-score it → hand you a ranked shortlist + a Mom-Test script to validate it in 5 conversationsbefore a line of code.

Real signal. Actionable output. We use it ourselves.

Three reasons HALO is different from the "vibe-coding" and "AI runs your company" crowd.

01 — REAL, NOT CURATED

Every complaint from the feed

One automated run across r/SaaS (100 posts) + r/entrepreneur (65) surfaced 15 pain themes. Top signal: "distribution is harder than building" — in 48% of r/SaaS posts that week. Not cherry-picked. Clustered by an LLM, ranked by frequency.

02 — A NEXT STEP, NOT A REPORT

One page you act on in 48 hours

Each candidate ships with verbatim quotes (+links), a RICE score and its inputs, a survivorship note (why the obvious competitor doesn't actually solve it), and a Mom-Test script to run verbatim. Not a 40-page deck.

03 — WE'RE THE FIRST USER

HALO dogfoods its own output

This positioning was produced by HALO running its own pipeline on its own market. We are the customer. If we wouldn't use it, we don't ship it.

How it works

From "I don't know what to build" to a validated shortlist — automatically.

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1. Mine

Pull real complaints from the communities your customers already use.

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2. Cluster

Group them into recurring pain themes, ranked by frequency + recency.

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3. Score

RICE-score each, with a survivorship check vs the incumbents.

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4. Validate

Get a Mom-Test script to confirm real demand in 5 conversations.

Get your market's shortlist — free, for 5 founders

We'll run HALO on your market and send you a one-page brief: the top pain themes founders are already paying to fix, RICE-scored, with a script to validate them. Free for 5 founding members, in exchange for a 30-minute call.

⚡ 5 founding-member spots — free pipeline run + 30-min call
Then $49/mo paid beta · $19/run or $79/mo self-serve later.
Demand UNVALIDATED — we're running 5 commitment-test calls before scaling. Honesty is the point.