v1.0 · agentic pipeline

From idea to first step in four moves.

IdeaForge is an agentic pipeline that structures your raw idea, surfaces its riskiest assumptions, forges a 30/60/90 roadmap, and hands you the single smallest action you can test before tomorrow.

See how it works
Built for the USAII Global AI Hackathon 2026 — Undergraduate track, Challenge Brief 3.
intake · agent-01
live

What exactly are you building? One sentence is fine.

JD

A peer-to-peer skill-swapping app for university students.

inferring gaps…
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what
A skill-swapping app for students
who
2nd-year CS students
why
Can't afford paid courses
where
3 university campuses
when
Ready for fall semester
how
Inferred from context…
When does this need to exist?
How it works

Four agents. One pipeline. Zero paralysis.

Each stage is a focused agent with one job. The output of each becomes the input to the next — the plan compounds instead of drifting.

016W3H chatbot

Intake

A guided conversation structures your raw idea across nine fields — Who, What, Where, When, Why, Which, How, How much, How many. Answer what you know; the agent infers the rest, never overwriting what you typed.

intake · agent-01

What exactly are you building?

A skill-swapping app for students.

inferring…
02risk analyst

Assumptions

An analytical agent surfaces the three to five riskiest, unvalidated beliefs hiding in your idea — the ones about demand, willingness to pay, and distribution that, if wrong, would sink it. Each tagged low, medium, or high.

high risk

Students will swap skills without monetary incentive

medium risk

3 campuses is enough for a viable network

low risk

Credit system is intuitive enough

03execution coach

Roadmap

A chronological 30/60/90-day plan, with concrete milestones a solo founder can actually hit. The AI only proposes — every milestone stays a draft until you accept it. Human-in-the-loop, always.

DAY 30
Validate 3 campuses
Interview 15 students
DAY 60
Ship MVP credit system
Onboard 50 swappers
DAY 90
Reach 200 active users
Measure retention
04paralysis-breaker

First step

The single smallest testable action you can take in the next 24 to 48 hours — no budget, no team — that produces real signal about your riskiest assumption. Execution paralysis, broken.

your move~2h

Interview 5 students about skill gaps. No app, no pitch — just listen.

why this

Tests the demand assumption before you build anything. Cheapest signal possible.

01 · intake · 6W3H agent

Drop the raw idea. We'll structure it.

A 6W3H chatbot turns a vague thought into a structured problem statement. The agent infers whatever you skip — but never overwrites what you type.

intake.console/ agent-01
sessionlive
Let's forge this idea. Tell me, in your own words, what you're trying to build — messy is fine. I'll sharpen it from there.
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