Use Case Foundry · AI opportunity diligence

Stop brainstorming generic AI ideas. Find the bets only your company can win.

Most AI lists could apply to anyone. Use Case Foundry builds a graph of your company's data, skills, and constraints — ranks defensible opportunities by Impact, Feasibility, Moat, and Quality — and adapts the same portfolio to your stage, mandate, department, data readiness, peer cohort, and who reads the output.

The recommendation board updates as you edit — Analyze needs no API key. Save models to the server when signed in. Generate full plan and dossiers when you're ready.

The problem with AI brainstorming

Workshops and ChatGPT produce long lists of plausible ideas. Almost none explain why you would win — or what to validate first.

Generic AI idea lists

  • Could apply to any company in your industry
  • Ranked by vibes, not defensibility
  • No evidence requirements or stop tests
  • High-moat bets buried under "easy wins"

Use Case Foundry: company-specific diligence

  • Only fires on facts in your company graph
  • Impact · Feasibility · Moat · Quality — explainable prescores on every card
  • Start partial: operators and gaps show what to capture next
  • Interview focus + peer cohort shape discovery without overriding your graph
  • Grouped portfolio — prerequisites, quick wins, strategic bets, and evidence gaps

Source → Model → Review

The app is one workspace with three steps. Deterministic graph reasoning ranks candidates; the LLM writes plans and dossiers when you ask.

1

Source

Load an example, auto-map a website, or open a saved model. Set interview focus — department pack, data readiness, peer cohort — plus archetype and resource level. Optional sign-in keeps models private on the server.

2

Model

Build your evidence map at your pace: offerings, segments, processes, assets, skills, projects, pains, and constraints. Quick-add only what you know; sections appear as you go. Operator coverage shows what's firing vs dormant.

3

Review & board

Tune feasibility vs moat and set strategy mandates. Analyze (no API key) returns grouped candidates, operator coverage, and Improve the model gaps. Generate full plan adds LLM write-ups, a strategic bet, and optional dossiers.

Six lenses over one company graph

Adaptation layers sit on top of the durable company model. They change how opportunities are elicited, ranked, and framed — never what facts you entered. Graph truth always wins.

Durable prior

Company archetype

Startup, scaleup, enterprise, agency, or SMB — plus resource level. Reorders builder sections, profile-aware gap diagnostics, and which operators are relevant for your stage.

This cycle · ranking

Strategy lens

Near-term and strategic mandates (cost, productivity, innovation, risk, customer experience) plus budget direction. Re-ranks candidates with a bounded boost — quality stays the gate.

Discovery · framing

Data maturity pack

Spreadsheet ops, warehouse-ready, or ML-platform-ready. Evidence checklists, builder hints, and rollout language — e.g. Instrument First before Automate when history is thin.

Discovery · framing

Department pack

Finance, revenue ops, operations, support/success, or people/HR. Shapes interview prompts, section hints, and auto-map extraction for the workflow locus you care about.

Discovery · thin graphs

Peer cohort

Auto-match or manually pick reference companies from a peer corpus. Reorders gap questions and may nudge ranking while your graph is still thin — never copies another company's model.

Output only

Persona lens

Founder, transformation lead, functional VP, or agency partner. Shapes language and emphasis in the Target Selector and opportunity dossiers without changing scores.

Built to kill generic slop

Use Case Foundry keeps every scoring axis transparent. Every generated use case includes the artifacts a skeptical buyer needs.

Evidence map at your pace

Start with an example or a single offering. Sections appear as you add facts — no empty forms on first load. Pain interview seeds ranked pains; the board reacts while you work.

Moat as a first-class axis

Feasibility alone buries defensible plays. Moat scores proprietary data, scarce expertise, abstractions, reuse, and switching costs — with graded I/F/M/Q badges, not booleans.

Quality / genericness gate

Operators like "support chatbot" fire weakly. Without grounding, they land in "Dropped as generic." An optional critique pass catches vague LLM output before final ranking.

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Improve the model

Every Analyze returns a ranked gap panel — pains, accessible data, abstractions — with exact interview questions. Your multi-day discovery backlog, no API key.

Grouped portfolio

Candidates bucket into prerequisites, quick wins, strategic bets, needs more evidence, and dropped generic — so readers see a portfolio, not a flat list.

Peer cohort & interview focus

Department and data-maturity packs shape prompts and section hints. Peer cohort auto-matches reference companies to reorder gaps and lightly nudge ranking on thin graphs.

Analyze without an API key

Graph triggers, prescores, operator coverage, and gap diagnostics run deterministically. LLM only for auto-map, Generate full plan, critique, and dossiers.

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Saved models & sign-in

Save to server from Step 1 — models persist across refresh. When auth is enabled, saved models are private to your account. YAML export still works for git or Drive.

Prerequisites and sequencing

Instrument First before Automate. Risk Guardrails before substitution. Dependencies are wired from the graph; related candidates are cross-linked on each card.

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Export & dossiers

Export all candidates or one card as JSON to compare LLM runs. Generate packages quick wins and the strategic bet into persona-tailored Markdown dossiers.

Who it's for

Use Case Foundry is a methodology-powered tool for anyone who needs to defend AI bets with evidence — not enthusiasm.

Primary fit

AI & strategy advisors

Run client assessments in days, not weeks. Auto-map cuts modeling time; saved models and exportable JSON support multi-session diligence; explainable I/F/M/Q scores stand up to skeptical buyers.

Innovation & transformation teams

Build a defensible AI roadmap with prescores a CFO can audit. Set mandates and budget direction in Use Case Foundry to re-rank the same portfolio for this quarter's objectives.

Functional leaders

Use Case Foundry lets you start from your department — finance, revenue ops, operations, support, or HR — with tailored interview prompts and rollout framing before you map the full company.

VC / corp dev diligence

Ask "can this company actually win with AI?" and get moat-grounded answers tied to specific assets and capabilities.

Start with Use Case Foundry

Open the app, expand Getting started for a walkthrough, or read the builder guide. Load an example, auto-map a website, save models when signed in, and Analyze instantly — Generate when the graph is grounded.

# local dev
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m engine.server --open
# analyze only (no API key)
python -m engine.run examples/meridian_fab.yaml
# production-like (Docker)
docker compose up --build