🚀 iSTARTUP Score — Startup Readiness Benchmark
A unified, AI-powered benchmarking platform designed to evaluate early-stage startups on Feasibility, Market Viability, and Execution Readiness.
iSTARTUP Score measures your intellectual property, team capability, business model strength, and market momentum to deliver an actionable, fundability report for venture capital, incubators (e.g. Plug and Play), and non-dilutive grant agencies.
🌟 Key Features
- 🧭 Structured Assessment (FounderFit-style): Intro → startup profile → five sections, each with its own brief → one question per screen → review → report. Every question offers five written answer anchors instead of a bare 1–5 rating, with a clickable progress track, Back/Review navigation, keyboard shortcuts (1–5, ←/→), and progress saved on the device so founders can resume.
- 📊 5-Vector Score Breakdown (weight in final score):
- 👤 Management — 20% (team track record, coachability, advisors, capital stewardship, growth vision)
- 🚀 Momentum — 25% (traction, adoption pace, ecosystem, external validation, measurable growth)
- 💼 Business Model — 20% (revenue model, scalability, industry insight, value proposition, profitability)
- 🔥 Motivation — 15% (market timing, team–product fit, urgency, IP protection, concept validation)
- 🎯 Market — 20% (market size, growth, customer pain, differentiation, trend alignment)
- 📜 Readiness Report: A score out of 500 with a readiness band, per-dimension bars, key strengths, critical gaps, and priority actions ranked by the points each would recover, plus a full response appendix.
- 📄 PDF Export: Print-optimised report layout (
window.print() → Save as PDF).
- 🎨 Professional Design System: A restrained light "research instrument" identity (IBM Plex, navy ink, iSTARTUP blue) shared by the landing page, assessment, and report.
The question bank lives in src/modules/istartup-score/assessment/bank.ts and scoring in assessment/scoring.ts (pure, deterministic functions).
🛠️ Technology Stack
📁 Project Structure
istartup-standalone/
├── public/ # Static assets & fallbacks
├── src/
│ ├── ai/ # Genkit configuration & Google AI initialization
│ ├── app/ # Next.js App Router (Layout, Page, Metadata, Icons)
│ ├── components/ # Shared UI primitives (Radix UI, buttons, toasts)
│ ├── firebase.ts # Firebase client configuration
│ ├── hooks/ # Custom React hooks
│ ├── lib/ # Utility functions & class names merger
│ └── modules/
│ └── istartup-score/ # Core Domain Module
│ ├── assessment/ # Question bank & deterministic scoring
│ ├── app/ # Landing page & assessment page
│ └── components/ # Assessment shell, report view & shared chrome
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json
🚀 Getting Started
Prerequisites
- Node.js 18.x or higher
npm / yarn / pnpm / bun- Google Gemini API Key
Installation
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/ScienceWerx-Inc/I-Startup.git
cd istartup-standalone
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Install dependencies:
npm install
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Configure Environment Variables:
Create a .env.local file in the project root:
GEMINI_API_KEY=your_google_gemini_api_key_here
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Run the Development Server:
npm run dev
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Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to explore the landing page and start an evaluation interview at /interview.
📦 Scripts
npm run dev: Starts the Next.js dev server with Turbopack.npm run build: Compiles and builds the production application.npm run start: Starts the Next.js production server.npm run lint: Runs ESLint for code quality checks.
📄 License
Private & Confidential — ScienceWerx Inc. / iSTARTUP. All rights reserved.
