ValWithProof
Abhishek Jyothi
Founder & CEO
Sets the product vision and leads how ValWithProof turns raw ideas into evidence founders can act on.
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Turn ideas into real opportunities
Validate your startup idea with proof.
Get real market insights, expert feedback, the right APIs and a clear report — before you write a single line of code.
Validation ReportExample idea: Hostel meal planner
Validation Score
74/ 100
Good Potential
Market DemandHigh
Rising interest over time
Evidence Found
- r/12K Reddit posts
- Q4.2K Quora questions
- ▶1.1K YouTube videos
Browse mentors
Verified operators, ready to pressure-test your idea.
Every mentor here passed an identity check. They set their own price — you see it before you book.
Validation score
Example idea · hostel meal planner
74 / 100
Your idea against similar ideas in the same category.
Evidence
Matched against 278,288 real records.
Demand
HighCompetition
MediumWillingness to pay
MediumYour idea
Written once. Every feature reads it.
A weekly meal planner for college hostels that turns the mess menu into balanced plans and a shared grocery list.
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Capabilities found
What the idea implies it needs.
PaymentsSign-inNotifications
Nutrition dataScheduling+3 more
No API keys needed to run
Recommended APIs
Ranked by what your product actually needs.
PaymentsCollect subscriptions from hostels in INR
Best fitAuthenticationEmail, phone and Google sign-in for students
CoreNotificationsRemind students before the weekly plan locks
CoreNutrition dataMacros for common Indian mess dishes
Nice to haveExample mentor
Food-tech operator · Hyderabad
Verified45 minGoogle Meet
Available for instant calls
Book a session
Offer a slot. The mentor confirms it.
Mon 10:00Mon 16:30Tue 11:00
Wed 09:30Wed 18:00Thu 14:00
Request session
Booking status
Never confirmed until payment succeeds.
1
Requested
Slot held while the mentor decides
2
Accepted
Or an alternative slot is offered
3
Confirmed
Your brief and the Meet link are ready
An example idea, shown in the product's own screens.
Three features, one idea
Everything between “I have an idea” and “I know it works.”
Each one is a complete engine in its own right. You write your idea once and it runs through all three — no feature asks you to type it again.
Reports
Your idea scored against 278,288 real records — hybrid lexical and semantic retrieval, no language model inventing numbers.
APIs
The capabilities your idea implies, matched to a catalogue of real APIs and ranked by what your product actually needs.
Experts
Operators who have shipped something like it. They set their own price, and you see the exact amount before you book.
How it works
One paragraph in. Three kinds of proof out.
No account setup, no configuration, no waiting on a model to think about it.
01
Describe the idea
A paragraph of plain English, entered once. Nothing structured, no forms, no taxonomy to learn.
02
Get scored against reality
Your idea is matched against 278,288 real records — hybrid lexical and semantic retrieval, no language model inventing numbers.
03
Line up what you need
The APIs your idea implies, ranked. Then the operators who have shipped something like it.
FAQ
The questions worth asking first.
Where do the numbers come from?
From retrieval over 278,288 real records, using TF-IDF with a 160-dimension SVD and a hybrid lexical/semantic blend. No number in a report is generated by a language model. That constraint is the entire point of the product, and it is why the Reports engine loads a real index at startup rather than calling an API.
Do I have to describe my idea three times?
No — once. It is the only input in the product. The report scores it, the API engine reads it for the capabilities it implies, and the expert brief is matched on the same text. Change it on the Idea dashboard and every feature picks up the new one.
What does it cost?
Reports and API recommendations are free — generate as many as you like and download them. The only thing that costs anything is time with a mentor, and the mentor sets that price themselves. You see the exact amount before you book, in rupees.
Do I need any API keys to run this?
No. Every feature runs on its bundled data with no keys set — the API engine falls back to a catalogue of 76 APIs and deterministic extraction, and the other two never call out at all. Adding a language-model key improves the prose in API explanations; it does not change any score.
The people behind ValWithProof
A founding team building evidence-first validation.
Seven of us, working on the same problem: that founders are asked to bet a year of their life on an opinion.
Jeshwanth Sampath
Co-Founder
Works across product and platform, shaping how validation signals are captured and scored.
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Bhanu Prasad Mangalapally
Co-Founder
Focused on the mentor network — how operators are sourced, matched, and kept engaged.
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Harish Arabaka
Co-Founder
Builds the systems behind real-time signal collection and keeps the pipeline fast and reliable.
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Chandra Reddy Gangasaani
Co-Founder
Drives go-to-market and founder growth, getting ValWithProof in front of early teams.
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Lokesh Yadav
Co-Founder
Owns design and the founder experience, from first click to reading the final report.
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Pradeepreddy Kankanala
Co-Founder & Data Analyst
Turns raw market and demand signals into the numbers behind every validation score.
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Founders validate an idea and book mentors. Mentors keep a profile, set their own price and take sessions. Both start at the same door.