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Why this exists

I didn’t build CEOS to sell it. I built it for myself.

I’m the kind of person who always has one more idea, and I’d lie awake wondering whether this one was a real business or just a feeling. I knew the trap: not every idea deserves to be built. The wrong one costs you years and your savings to find out the hard way.

A chatbot that agrees with me wasn’t going to help. What I needed was a team of specialists, each with one job. Research the market, find who already tried it, name what would kill it, deliver an honest verdict. And when an idea was weak, send it back to be reworked, not rubber-stamp it.

But a team is only as good as its timing. I needed it to run like a Swiss watch: every part in sync, nothing out of place, the same result every time you wind it. So I gave it a Watchmaker: one role whose only job is to keep the whole team in time.

That precision is the whole point. It’s where the name comes from: The Swiss Man.

The first time I put it on paper, explaining it to a friend, it looked like this:

Hand-drawn whiteboard: RAW IDEA → RADAR → SPARK → APEX → MARCUS (NO/GO) → VECTOR → MATRIX → MVP, overseen by the Watchmaker.
The first whiteboard: the system that runs your Reality Check, before it had a line of code.

It worked well enough that keeping it to myself felt wrong. So here it is: the same system I use, pointed at your idea.

Andrei · 10 years at sea, now founder

Here’s how the team keeps time:

How CEOS works

16 phases. One report. A few minutes.

Paste a 1-3 sentence idea. CEOS runs a 16-phase pipeline (research with citations, brainstorming, business model, GTM, spec, Reality Check, dealbreakers, comparables) and ships an audit-grade report you can forward to a co-founder or partner.Quick Reality Check ~6 min · Deep Reality Check ~18 min (with a working prototype).

How it works

  1. 1

    Research

    Market size, competitors, gaps, real opportunity.

  2. 2

    Plan

    Business model, go-to-market, risks.

  3. 3

    Build

    In Deep mode, a working prototype you can click and share. Quick skips the build by design.

What you get, every time

One Reality Check. Same structure, same depth, every idea you bring.

  • Reality Check: the verdict (don't build it yet · worth a closer look · worth building), top 3 risks (severity-tagged), top 3 validation experiments, the recommended next step, 5-8 open questions for you, archetype-aware lens rationale, and industry context with an explainer.
  • Dealbreakers ranked: severity × likelihood matrix, mitigation path per risk, category-tagged (regulatory / market / tech / team / capital / competitive / timing).
  • Comparables: 3-6 prior companies that tried something similar, outcome (acquired / dead / active / ipo / pivoted), why each is comparable, source URL.
  • Dynamic caveats: a rule-based “what this Reality Check can't determine” section with severity dots and evidence quotes.
  • Sources: every claim cites a real URL. Live-validated HTTP 200 at write time. No hallucinated citations.
  • Audit Trail: every phase shown with agent name + duration, agent-by-agent reasoning, exportable. Show-your-work transparency: the report explains itself.

You read the Reality Check. You make the call. CEOS does the work in between.

The system

  • 16 phases. Named, ordered, repeatable.
  • 7 specialized agents. Each with a dedicated role: research, citations, archetype lens, feasibility, red-team, synthesis, recommendation.
  • Same input, same output. Deterministic: run it twice, get the same result. Deep also builds a working prototype.

The pipeline is the product. The agents do the work a good advisor would. The Reality Check is what you walk away with.

See a real one

Open the canonical sample report

B2B vertical SaaS for independent veterinary clinics. Verdict: “Worth a closer look.” 16-phase pipeline visible, Reality Check + comparables + sources all populated.

Run your first Reality Check, free →

Quick ~6 min · Deep ~18 min · first one free, no card