sales-skills/sales-worthbuild

WorthBuild Platform Help

WorthBuild (worthbuild.io) is a cheap, fast AI startup-idea validator whose distinctive job in the validator market is built-in customer discovery. You describe your idea; in ~2 minutes it scans public discussions (Reddit, Hacker News, X/Twitter, forums) for real people already voicing the problem and returns them as "Your First Customers" — each with their pain point, an engagement signal, and a ready-to-send personalized outreach message — alongside a full validation report (TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing, a ~12-competitor map, risk assessment, unit economics, financial projections, a week-by-week roadmap, and a Go/Pivot/Stop verdict). Extras: a free auto-generated landing page + waitlist, a one-click 10-slide pitch deck (customizable, PDF export), AI Pivot Suggestions if the idea scores low, and a Discovery Hub of problem discussions. It's priced one-time per report with a free monthly validation, and is UI-only — no public API. Its niche: of the validators, it's the one that hands you an actual customer-conversation shortlist — but a surfaced lead is interest, not proof anyone will pay, and the verdict is still an AI opinion.

Step 1 — Gather context

If references/learnings.md exists, read it first for accumulated platform knowledge.

Ask only what you can't infer:

1. What do you want from WorthBuild?
   • A) Run/interpret a validation — the Go/Pivot/Stop verdict, market sizing, competitor map, risks
   • B) Use the "Your First Customers" leads and the ready-to-send outreach messages
   • C) Understand the pricing — the free monthly validation vs the one-time per-report packs
   • D) Use a downstream generator — the free landing page + waitlist, the pitch deck, or pivot suggestions
   • E) Get the report out / automate it (export / API reality)
2. What's the real question — "is this validated?" or "who do I talk to first?" The verdict is an AI opinion; the surfaced leads are a conversation list, not confirmed demand — route the go/no-go in Step 2.
3. If you're planning to contact the surfaced leads, that's cold/warm outreach — not WorthBuild's job. Route to /sales-cadence (sequence) and /sales-deliverability (land in the inbox).

Skip-ahead: if the user wants the validate-before-building method or to rank validators across the market, route to /sales-idea-validation immediately.

Step 2 — Route or answer directly

| If the user's question is about… | Route to | |---|---| | The validate-before-building method, or the go/no-go decision itself | /sales-idea-validation {question} | | Comparing WorthBuild against other validators (Validator AI, IdeaProof, DimeADozen, Preuve…) | /sales-idea-validation {question} | | Actually cold-emailing / sequencing the "First Customers" leads | /sales-cadence {question} | | Making sure that outreach lands in the inbox (deliverability, warmup) | /sales-deliverability {question} | | Deep Reddit demand-signal discovery / scoring as its own workflow | /sales-trendseeker {question} | | Building the smoke-test / fake-door landing page (beyond WorthBuild's auto-generated one) | /sales-funnel {question} | | Growing a pre-launch waitlist / capturing real demand | /sales-audience-growth {question} |

When routing, give the exact command: "This is a {domain} question — run: /sales-idea-validation {original question}"

Otherwise, answer WorthBuild-specific questions using Step 3.

Step 3 — WorthBuild platform reference

Read references/platform-guide.md for the full reference — how the validation engine and the "Your First Customers" discovery work, what the full report contains, the Go/Pivot/Stop verdict, the downstream generators (landing page + waitlist, pitch deck, pivot suggestions, Discovery Hub), the one-time-per-report pricing and free monthly validation, the no-public-API automation reality, and how it compares to the rest of the validator cluster.

Answer using only the relevant section — don't dump the full reference.

Step 4 — Actionable guidance

• Frame WorthBuild as "the validator that also hands you your first customers," not a proof of demand. Its edge over pure-score validators is the "Your First Customers" list — a shortlist of real people already voicing the problem, with a ready-to-send message. That's genuinely useful: it's the customer-conversation rung of the evidence ladder handed to you. But a person complaining online is interested, not committed — the go/no-go still belongs to a real behavior test (a reply that turns into a call, a waitlist signup, a pre-sale), routed to /sales-idea-validation.
• Treat the Go/Pivot/Stop verdict and every market number as an AI estimate, not evidence. The verdict, TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, competitor map, unit economics, and financial projections are model-generated from a ~2-minute scan — keep the structured parts (competitor list, risks, positioning) to sharpen the pitch and verify any figure against a primary source before quoting it. If the idea scores low, read the Pivot Suggestions as hypotheses to re-test, not directives.
• Vet the surfaced leads before you send anything, and don't blast the canned outreach. The "First Customers" are AI-surfaced from public posts — check each is a real, relevant person (right problem, recent, not a bot) before contacting them, and personalize the ready-made message rather than sending it verbatim. Respect each platform's rules (Reddit/HN dislike cold DMs). Route the actual sequencing to /sales-cadence and inbox-landing to /sales-deliverability.
• Whenever pricing comes up, state the model FIRST: WorthBuild is one-time per report with a free monthly validation — no subscription and no credits. Then treat figures as best-effort: one free validation per month (full report, no card), a single report as a cheap one-time buy, and a multi-report bundle at a small discount. Point to worthbuild.io and flag every price as best-effort; note that re-validating a pivoted idea is another report.
• There's no public API — don't plan an integration around it. If asked to export or automate, say plainly there's no documented public API, no webhooks, no Zapier/Make, no MCP — it's a UI web app; the report, leads, landing page, and pitch deck are used/downloaded from the browser. If you need the demand signals scripted, pull them from source (a keyword-volume API, Google Trends, the Reddit API) instead — the thing worth automating is a real demand signal, not the verdict.

If you discover a gotcha or tip not in references/learnings.md, append it there with today's date.

Gotchas

Best-effort from research (2026-07) — WorthBuild is a young, low-cost tool with thin third-party review coverage; verify pricing, the free-tier allowance, report depth, and the data sources at worthbuild.io.

• The verdict is an AI opinion, not demand. Go/Pivot/Stop, market sizing, and financials are generated from a fast scan — a "Go" is a directional gut check, not proof strangers will pay.
• "Your First Customers" are leads, not customers. They're AI-surfaced from public posts — a complaint signals interest. Verify each person/post is real and relevant, and treat a reply or a waitlist signup (not the raw list) as the actual signal.
• Don't send the canned outreach as-is. The ready-made messages are starting drafts; personalize them and respect platform norms (Reddit/HN penalize spammy DMs) — route sequencing to /sales-cadence.
• One-time per report + one free validation/month — and re-runs cost again. No subscription; a pivoted idea is a new report. Confirm current pack pricing and the free allowance.
• The auto-generated landing page is a starter, not the smoke test. Use it to capture a waitlist, but the demand proof is what strangers do on it — for a purpose-built fake-door page use /sales-funnel.
• No public API, no webhooks, no Zapier/Make/MCP. UI web app — you can't script or batch-run it; download the report/deck manually or pull demand signals from source.

Related skills

• /sales-idea-validation — The tool-agnostic validate-before-building method + the full validator landscape (use this to actually decide build-or-not; a surfaced lead and an AI score are not demand)
• /sales-cadence — Sequence and personalize outreach to the "First Customers" leads (WorthBuild finds them; cadence contacts them without spamming)
• /sales-deliverability — Make that outreach land in the inbox (warmup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC) rather than spam
• /sales-trendseeker — Reddit-based real-demand discovery + evidence scoring as its own workflow (contrast WorthBuild's leads-plus-report)
• /sales-ideaproof — IdeaProof platform help (a credit-based 120s validator that scores one idea and bundles plan/brand/logo/pitch/ads — a pure-score sibling without customer discovery)
• /sales-preuve — Preuve AI platform help (a source-linked validator that cites every claim across 50+ live sources — contrast WorthBuild's leads-first, cited-lightly report)
• /sales-funnel — Build the purpose-built smoke-test / fake-door landing page the real demand test runs on
• /sales-audience-growth — Grow a pre-launch waitlist and capture real demand
• /sales-do — Not sure which skill to use? The router matches any sales objective to the right skill. Install: npx skills add sales-skills/sales --skill sales-do -a claude-code

Examples

Example 1: "WorthBuild found 20 people with my problem — am I validated?"

User says: "WorthBuild gave me a 'Go' and a list of 20 people on Reddit who have this exact problem. Should I start building?" Skill does: Credits the "Your First Customers" list as WorthBuild's real edge — a customer-conversation shortlist handed to you — but reframes both the Go verdict (an AI opinion from a ~2-min scan) and the leads (people who are interested, not committed) as directional, not demand. Prescribes the real test: verify a handful of the leads are real/relevant, reach out personally (routed to /sales-cadence + /sales-deliverability) to book conversations, and turn a waitlist signup or pre-sale into the go/no-go — routed to /sales-idea-validation and /sales-funnel. Result: The founder uses the leads as a head start on real conversations instead of treating the list as proof.

Example 2: "Is the WorthBuild free validation enough, or do I pay?"

User says: "Do I need to pay WorthBuild or is the free one fine?" Skill does: States the model first — one-time per report with a free monthly validation, no subscription — and (best-effort) that the free tier gives one full validation per month, no card, so a single idea is free to validate; the cheap one-time single report and the small-discount bundle are for validating more ideas or pivots in the same month. Notes re-validating a pivoted idea is another report, and points to worthbuild.io to confirm current pricing and the free allowance. Result: The user validates their first idea free and only pays when they need to run several.

Example 3: Can I pull WorthBuild's report into my CRM via an API? (developer/automation)

User says: "I want to auto-export WorthBuild's leads and report into my own database via API." Skill does: States plainly there's no documented public API, no webhooks, no Zapier/Make, no MCP — WorthBuild is a UI web app whose report, leads, landing page, and pitch deck are used/downloaded from the browser, so there's no supported programmatic export. Suggests fallbacks: copy the report/leads manually, or reconstruct the demand signals from source (the Reddit API, a keyword-volume API, Google Trends) and automate a real demand signal instead of the verdict. Result: The user avoids building on a non-existent API and picks a workable path to the underlying signal.

Troubleshooting

WorthBuild said "Go" and found me customers — does that mean it's validated?

Symptom: A "Go" verdict plus a list of real people with the problem, and the founder wants to start building. Cause: The verdict is an LLM opinion from a fast scan, and the leads are AI-surfaced from public posts — a complaint is interest, not willingness to pay. Solution: Keep the structured outputs (competitor map, risks, positioning) to sharpen the pitch, verify a sample of the leads are real/relevant, then earn a real verdict: contact them personally to book conversations (/sales-cadence, /sales-deliverability), and put the go/no-go on a waitlist signup or pre-sale (/sales-funnel, /sales-idea-validation).

The "First Customers" leads look thin or off-target

Symptom: The surfaced people aren't quite the right audience, or some posts look old/irrelevant. Cause: The discovery matches keywords in public discussions, so precision varies with how specific the idea description is and how much the problem is discussed online. Solution: Give WorthBuild a more specific problem statement (audience + concrete pain), re-run, and hand-filter the list before outreach — discard bots, off-topic threads, and stale posts. Cross-check demand with /sales-trendseeker (Reddit signal) and don't outreach anyone you haven't vetted.

I want an API or a way to export/automate the report and leads

Symptom: Want to script WorthBuild or pull its report/leads into another system. Cause: WorthBuild has no documented public API, webhooks, or iPaaS connectors — it's a UI web app. Solution: Copy the report/leads and download the pitch deck (PDF) manually, or pull the underlying signals from source (the Reddit API, a keyword-volume API, Google Trends) and automate a real demand signal (landing-page analytics) instead. See /sales-idea-validation.