We got tired of building the wrong things.

PledgeOFF exists because the standard advice — “talk to customers”, “build a landing page”, “find ten paying users” — takes weeks and requires skills most early-stage founders don't have yet. By the time you've done it right, you've either lost momentum or built too much to pivot.

The question “is this a real problem?” has always had an answer buried in public data. Hacker News threads, GitHub issue trackers, Reddit complaints, developer forums, industry blogs. The signal is there. It just takes hours to find and weeks to synthesise honestly.

PledgeOFF automates that synthesis. You get a structured verdict — not a chatbot's guess, not an AI hallucination, but a scoring system grounded in real public signals with every source cited. GO, PIVOT, or KILL. In fifteen seconds.

“The goal is never to tell founders what to do. It's to remove the excuse for not knowing what the evidence says.”

We charge for it because the infrastructure to scrape, parse, weight, and summarise signals at this quality has real costs. The free tier exists because we want the verdict to be available to everyone before they decide to commit. If you never upgrade, that's fine — one honest verdict per month is still more than most people get.