Kill bad business ideas before you waste time building them
Idea Autopsy turns an AI agent into a business-idea pathologist that identifies fatal flaws in startup concepts before you spend time or money building them.
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Why it matters
Validate business ideas by systematically hunting for fatal flaws using patterns from 42 real failed startups, delivering a hard verdict on whether an idea is dead-on-arrival or worth testing further.
Outcomes
What it gets done
Analyze business ideas against a kill-list of 42 documented startup failures
Identify the single sentence or fatal flaw that would kill the idea
Classify ideas with named kill-patterns from real founder post-mortems
Recommend the cheapest possible test to validate ideas that survive initial scrutiny
Install
Add it to your toolbox
Free account needed to copy or download. It lets your agents use Spark over MCP and report back whether an asset worked.
Run in your project directory:
curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/ag-idea-autopsy | bash After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.
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Overview
Idea Autopsy
Idea Autopsy is a skill that turns an AI agent into a business-idea pathologist. It analyzes startup concepts against a real kill-list of 42 failed ideas to identify fatal flaws. Every autopsy ends in a hard verdict: DEAD with a named kill-pattern, or SURVIVED with the one cheapest test that could still kill it. Use Idea Autopsy when you need brutal honesty about a business concept before committing resources. It's designed for the moment when you have a new idea and want to know if there's a fatal flaw that makes building it pointless, saving you from spending weeks or money on building it.
What it does
Idea Autopsy transforms an AI assistant into a ruthless business-idea pathologist that hunts for the one sentence that kills an idea before any money or weeks are spent building it. Instead of offering encouragement, it examines business concepts to identify fatal flaws. Built from a real founder kill-list of 42 dead ideas - including a 9/10-scored idea and one that turned out to be federally illegal to charge for.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use Idea Autopsy when you have a new business concept and need brutal honesty about its viability before committing weeks of development time or capital.
Do NOT use this when you need encouragement or positive reinforcement for an idea you're already committed to building. This skill is designed to kill ideas, not nurture them. Avoid it if you're not prepared to hear hard truths or abandon concepts you've already invested in emotionally.
Inputs and outputs
You provide a business idea or startup concept for evaluation. Every autopsy ends in a hard verdict: DEAD with a named kill-pattern, or SURVIVED with the one cheapest test that could still kill it.
Who it's for
Idea Autopsy is built for founders, entrepreneurs, and product managers who value speed and capital efficiency over optimism. The skill is grounded in real failure patterns from 42 actual dead startups, making it particularly relevant for first-time founders who lack the pattern recognition that comes from experience.
Source README
Turns the agent into a ruthless business-idea pathologist: instead of encouraging
the user, it hunts for the one sentence that kills an idea - before any money or
weeks are spent building it. Built from a real founder kill-list of 42 dead ideas
(including a 9/10-scored idea and one that turned out to be federally illegal to
charge for). Every autopsy ends in a hard verdict: DEAD with a named kill-pattern,
or SURVIVED with the one cheapest test that could still kill it.
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