Opportunity intelligence for founders

Know what to build.
Before you build it.

Execution is cheap. Claude Code builds an MVP in a weekend. The scarce resource is knowing which MVP is worth building. Project Red Car gives you a battle-tested research methodology that finds newly-viable B2B opportunities by scanning for the intersection of real pain, urgency drivers, and AI capability unlocks.

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Why “Red Car”

How many red cars did you see on your way to work this morning?

You probably can't answer that - because you weren't looking. The same thing happens with opportunities. Once you know the pattern to look for, you start seeing them everywhere.

Right now, in industries you've never thought about, people are describing painful workflows they repeat every week. Regulations are forcing change. AI costs just dropped below the threshold that makes a solution viable. The opportunity is sitting there - you just don't know to look for it yet.

Project Red Car puts it on your radar.

Real results from real scans

20+ scanned. 4 survived. Here are some of them.

Every opportunity gets the same treatment - three-signal validation, then five kill checks. Most ideas die. The ones that survive are worth building.

Opportunities that passed all checks
AI new-build snagging inspectorSURVIVED
8.2/10
Pain
93.7% of new-build buyers report defects. Average of 141 faults per home. Professional snagging surveys cost £300-700, leaving 70% of buyers inspecting alone with no expertise.
Why now
New Homes Quality Code V2 launched March 2026 - buyers now have an explicit right to self-inspect before completion. Labour's 1.5M homes target means faster construction and more defects. Building Safety Levy effective October 2026.
Unlock
Multimodal AI can now identify cracks, moisture staining, misalignment, and paint defects from phone photos. Cost per image analysis is £0.03-0.15 - viable at a consumer price point.
Narrowest MVP
Upload photos room by room, AI analyses against NHBC standards, generates a downloadable PDF snagging report with defect type, severity, and remediation language to send to the developer.
EHCP navigation AI for SEND parentsSURVIVED
7.7/10
Pain
95% of SEND Tribunal cases won by parents - councils are routinely wrong. Parents spend £5,000-18,000+ fighting for their child's support. 638,700 children with active EHCPs, growing 10.8% yearly.
Why now
Government published 'Every Child Achieving and Thriving' White Paper Feb 2026 - biggest SEND reform since 2014. Years of transition uncertainty ahead. Parents need help understanding what reforms mean for their child now.
Unlock
RAG over the SEND Code of Practice, Children and Families Act, and 2026 White Paper grounds every response in verified legal sources with citations. LLMs can analyse uploaded EHCPs section by section against statutory requirements.
Narrowest MVP
Upload a draft EHCP, AI reviews each section against legal requirements, flags vague language, suggests specific improvements, and generates response letters to the local authority.
AI construction safety documentationSURVIVED
7.7/10
Pain
Every UK building project requires a CDM-compliant H&S plan - 25+ document types. 885,000 construction SMEs, most buy generic Word templates and barely customise them. HSE fines are unlimited with personal criminal liability.
Why now
Building Safety Act enforcement expanding - duty holder regime carries criminal penalties, enforcement time limit extended from 12 months to 10 years. Building Safety Levy effective October 2026. Skills shortage of 251,500 workers needed by 2028.
Unlock
LLMs can take a plain-English project description and generate project-specific risk assessments, method statements, and construction phase plans referencing correct CDM 2015 regulations. Voice-to-text for on-site use now production-ready.
Narrowest MVP
Describe your project in plain English or voice. AI generates the full CDM-compliant documentation package - construction phase plan, risk assessments, method statements, COSHH forms. Editable Word/PDF output.
Killed by validation checks
AI quoting for UK tradespeopleKILLED
6.5/10

QuickPrice already offers the near-identical product. ServiceM8 has full AI quoting live. Jobber shipped AI quote drafting in 2024.

EPC improvement advisor for landlordsKILLED
7.0/10

eco-Landlord, backed by DESNZ (government), offers essentially the same tool - for free. Can't compete with government-funded.

AI contract review for SMBsKILLED
7.5/10

Lawhive raised €50M Series B (Google Ventures). Luminance has 1,000+ enterprise customers. Robin AI collapsed despite $10M ARR - cautionary unit economics.

AI meeting notes and action itemsKILLED
6.0/10

Microsoft Copilot native in Teams. Google Gemini native in Meet. Otter, Circleback, Granola, Fireflies all well-funded. Platform incumbents already shipping.

Planning permission pre-checkerKILLED
6.5/10

Planda offers AI planning insights from 10M+ records. Government hired Google Cloud for £6.9M to build AI planning tools. Multiple competitors active.

Three-signal intersection

The method.

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Pain

Real people describing frustration with specific workflows. Forum posts, Reddit threads, app reviews. Not hypothetical. Scored 0.0-1.0.

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Why Now

Something external making the problem impossible to keep ignoring. A regulation deadline, rising costs, labour shortages, tighter competition, higher customer expectations. Not hypothetical - measurable today.

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Capability Unlock

Something that became possible in the last 12-18 months. Model cost dropped, new API launched, structured output became reliable. The "why now."

Then five kill checks: platform dependency, incumbent AI roadmap (last 6 months), moat timeline (18mo minimum), test data availability, and distribution access. Most ideas die here.

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