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Verdict

Verified early demand signals for B2B software founders

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Founders waste 100s of hours building software products based on vanity waitlists dominated by fake, personal, or low-intent signups.

Verdict transforms simple pre-launch landing pages into active demand intelligence networks for early-stage teams. By enriching waitlist signups with corporate domain verification, reverse-IP firmographics, and willingness-to-pay telemetry, founders quantify genuine market demand before writing code. This eliminates wasted engineering sprints and provides investors with verified enterprise pipeline metrics from day 1.

Verdict aims to become the global trust infrastructure for pre-product commercial validation.

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Problem
  • When I validate a new B2B product idea, I want to capture true buyer intent, but standard email waitlists yield 90%+ consumer emails with zero commercial commitment, causing $50k+ in lost engineering time.
  • Why Now: The cost of building software with automated dev tools has dropped significantly, causing a massive flood of unverified SaaS launches and severe buyer fatigue.
  • When I present traction metrics to pre-seed investors, I want to prove genuine enterprise demand, but vanity signup counts are dismissed as meaningless noise.
  • When I conduct discovery interviews, I want to talk only to budget-holding decision makers, but spend 20+ hours sifting through unverified community signups manually.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual LinkedIn cross-referencing, generic Typeform surveys, Google Forms, and unverified Mailchimp waitlists.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Stripe for pre-launch B2B demand validation.
  • Reverse-IP and corporate domain verification embedded directly into lightweight waitlist widgets to reveal visitor job seniority and company revenue.
  • Interactive micro-surveys that dynamically adjust based on visitor firmographics to measure exact willingness-to-pay thresholds.
  • Intent scoring dashboard that ranks pre-launch leads by corporate budget authority and urgency to prioritize founder discovery calls.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Technical SaaS founders, venture studios, and YC-backed pre-product startups needing hard buyer validation metrics.
  • Direct script integration with popular landing page builders including Framer, Webflow, and Next.js boilerplate templates.
  • Programmatic direct outreach to founders launching pre-product teasers on ProductHunt and IndieHackers.
  • Strategic distribution partnerships with venture incubators and early-stage seed funds evaluating founder deal flow.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free Tier up to 100 enriched signups
  • $49/mo Starter tier for 1k signups with basic firmographics
  • $199/mo Pro tier with priority intent scoring and CRM sync.
  • One Metric That Matters [OMTM]: Number of verified corporate decision-maker leads delivered to founders monthly.
  • Market Sizing: SAM of 120k active pre-launch B2B software projects annually x $600 average annual ACV = $72M TAM/SAM segment; target Year 1 SOM of $1.5M ARR with 2.5k paying founders.
Scale Costs
  • High-frequency reverse-IP and corporate firmographic API data enrichment costs per visitor lookup.
  • Low-latency global edge network infrastructure to serve validation scripts without impacting host landing page speeds.
  • Data compliance and security architecture for managing enterprise business contact telemetry under GDPR and CCPA.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.4
  • world-class SaaS growth strategist and $100M+ ARR venture partner
    9.5
  • lead B2B product architect and former VP of Engineering
    9.2
  • serial enterprise founder and seed-stage angel investor
    9.6
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