For Solo Founders
Most founders don't fail because they lack skills or drive. They fail because they spend six months building something nobody actually wants. Bandos forces you into real validation before you write a single line of code.
The Solution
You don't need to be a user research expert to get unbiased data. Bandos embeds the heavy-hitting frameworks used by professionals — automatically generating interview scripts and surveys from the moment you describe your idea.
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick's methodology is embedded into every interview script Bandos generates. You'll never ask a leading question again — every prompt anchors to what respondents have actually done.
Jobs-To-Be-Done
Bandos probes for switching triggers, progress blockers, and functional vs. emotional outcomes. You discover the job your customer is actually hiring a product to do — not the feature they say they want.
Opportunity Solution Tree
Every validated insight flows into a living OST mind-map. You see exactly which opportunities are confirmed, which solutions are contradicted, and where the whitespace is.
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Conflicting or insufficient dataUlwick Opportunity Score
Step 1 · User Needs
Every user need on your mind-map gets an Ulwick Opportunity Score — a formula that measures how important the problem is to people and how satisfied they currently are with the alternatives.
The gap between those two numbers is where the real opportunity lives. A need that is highly important but poorly served by anything on the market today is a wide-open door. A need where people are already happy? Move on.
You don't interpret this — Bandos calculates it from your interview and survey data automatically.
Step 2 · Solutions
Once the real needs are confirmed, Bandos scores each of your proposed solutions with an ICE score — Impact, Viability, and Low Friction — all derived from what your interviewees actually said.
Impact captures how dramatically the solution closes the gap. Viability looks at spending signals and switching readiness. Low Friction judges how easy it is for people to change their current behaviour to adopt it.
The number tells you which idea to pursue first and which ones to drop — before you write a single line of code.
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Conflicting or insufficient dataICE Score Breakdown
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