IDEATE Phase

Run the ideation pipeline: discover opportunities, analyze gaps, validate demand, and pre-check feasibility.

Output: Validated opportunities with feasibility assessment, ready for REFINE phase.

Pipeline Position

[IDEATE] → REFINE → MAKE → SHIP
    │
    ├── discover      → Raw opportunities from marketplaces
    ├── analyze-gaps  → Scored and ranked
    ├── validate      → Reddit/web pain signal confirmation
    └── pre-check     → Feasibility critique (APIs, legal, costs)
                        → DECISION: proceed / pivot / kill

Parameters

• --phase: casual | regular | power (default: casual)
• --marketplaces: Comma-separated list (default: apify,smithery,mcp_registry)
• --days: Reddit validation lookback (default: 14)
• --select: How many to pre-check (default: top-3)

Stages Executed

1. DISCOVER

Scrape marketplaces for opportunities.

• Output: outputs/discover/raw-opportunities-{date}.json

2. ANALYZE-GAPS

Score opportunities on sentiment, staleness, competition, fit.

• Output: outputs/analyze/gap-opportunities-{date}.json

3. VALIDATE

Check Reddit/web for real pain signals.

• Output: outputs/validate/validated-opportunities-{date}.json

4. PRE-CHECK

Feasibility critique for top opportunities:

• API availability and costs
• Legal/TOS issues
• Platform viability
• Competitive moat

For each opportunity, produces:

• Output: outputs/{name}/pre-check.md
• Decision: PROCEED | PIVOT | KILL

Decision Points

After PRE-CHECK, each opportunity gets a decision:

Decision	Meaning	Next Action
PROCEED	Feasibility confirmed	Move to REFINE phase
PIVOT	Blocker found, but alternatives exist	Run pivot analysis
KILL	Not viable	Skip, move to next opportunity

Output Summary

After ideate completes:

outputs/
├── discover/raw-opportunities-{date}.json
├── analyze/gap-opportunities-{date}.json
├── validate/validated-opportunities-{date}.json
├── {opportunity-1}/
│   └── pre-check.md  (PROCEED)
├── {opportunity-2}/
│   └── pre-check.md  (PIVOT - needs new approach)
├── {opportunity-3}/
│   └── pre-check.md  (KILL - API dead)
└── ideate-run-{date}.json

Run Summary File

outputs/ideate-run-{date}.json:

{
  "run_at": "2025-11-28T...",
  "phase": "casual",
  "stages_completed": ["discover", "analyze", "validate", "pre-check"],
  "opportunities_discovered": 38,
  "opportunities_validated": 10,
  "pre_check_results": {
    "proceed": ["notion-database-sync-mcp"],
    "pivot": ["linkedin-enrichment-mcp"],
    "kill": []
  },
  "next_steps": [
    {
      "opportunity": "notion-database-sync-mcp",
      "action": "refine",
      "command": "/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:refine --name notion-database-sync-mcp"
    },
    {
      "opportunity": "linkedin-enrichment-mcp",
      "action": "pivot",
      "command": "/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:pivot --name linkedin-enrichment-mcp"
    }
  ]
}

Usage

Full ideate run

/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:ideate

Custom parameters

/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:ideate --phase regular --select top-5

Resume from specific stage

/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:pre-check --all

Next Phase

For opportunities with PROCEED decision:

/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:refine --name {opportunity-name}

For opportunities with PIVOT decision:

/mcp-opportunity-pipeline:pivot --name {opportunity-name}