Vali

Autonomous startup validation co-pilot enforcing The Mom Test

Key Metrics: Mom Test Guardrails • Sovereign Cascade Routing

System Overview

An open-source, open-weights autonomous discovery engine for founders. Ingests field voice notes, detects leading pitch questions in real time, generates Mom Test probe questions, and synthesizes discovery evidence into market conviction scores.

Architectural Decisions & Build Log

Created as the standalone interview & discovery engine of Research Navigator, providing founders with an objective auditor for customer discovery.

ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS

Multi-model sovereign cascade routing between ultra-fast Groq LLaMA 3.3 70B and 100% offline local Ollama nodes.

Real-time rule engine flagging hypothetical questions ("Would you pay...") and extracting past behavioral proof.

WhatsApp webhook ingestion allowing founders to record voice notes right after customer interviews.

LESSONS LEARNED & TAKEAWAYS

▸Prompt guardrails alone fail without structured JSON output validation.

▸Field discovery requires mobile-first voice intake because founders rarely type notes immediately.

TECHNOLOGIES & RUNTIMES

FastAPIGroq LLaMA 3.3Ollama Hermes 3WhatsApp Cloud APITavilyPython