how it works
Ten questions. Every answer is a confidence claim — and confidence claims get checked.
You state your idea
One sentence is enough. The engine locks four possible readings of what you're actually doing — from validated to premature — and spends the interview finding out which one is true.
Five questions stress the idea
Who actually has this problem. Whether you've talked to anyone who'd pay. Why it still exists if it's so obvious. You answer in your own words — Astou responds to what you actually said, not a category you clicked.
Five questions stress you
Risk tolerance, time horizon, what actually pulls you toward this. An idea can be sound and still be wrong for the person building it. If you claim high confidence on everything, the engine notices — and asks about that too.
It converges on a growth edge
Three things Astou noticed in your answers, where the reading landed, and a two-sentence verdict naming the exact gap between what you believe and what you could prove. No encouragement, no roadmap padding — the gap, stated plainly.
after the growth edge
The growth edge is free. Keeping the mirror is the paid part.
For $12/month you get unlimited sessions — every new idea, every pivot, every "wait, is this actually different from the last thing I abandoned" moment. Astou finds the gap every time.
For $19/month Astou remembers your last growth edge. Next session it asks whether you closed the gap before you start building something new to avoid finding out.
one free session · $12/mo mirror · $19/mo accountability
Astou is not a guarantee of business success. It surfaces gaps in reasoning — it does not predict whether a business will succeed or fail. Treat every diagnosis as a starting point for your own judgment, not a final word on your idea or your ability to execute it.
This is an early prototype.Every question and observation is AI-generated. Despite guardrails, occasional hallucination or topic drift is possible — if something in your session feels off-base, trust your own read over the model's.