Founder Triage

Funnel diagnosis for launched products

You've launched.People aren't paying.Find out what's actually broken.

Diagnose whether the bottleneck is traffic, positioning, activation, pricing, demand or retention — before you waste another month building.

Diagnose my product — Free

Free. No signup. No subscription.

The problem

Founders change the wrong thing all the time.

  • Traffic is low

    so they Rebuild the landing page

  • Sales are low

    so they Lower the price

  • Activation is low

    so they Add more features

  • Churn is high

    so they Buy more traffic

The problem isn't a shortage of things you could change.It's knowing which one deserves attention first.

How it works

Three steps from “something’s off” to a clear first move.

  1. Step 1: Show us the funnel

    Enter visitors, signups, activated users and paying customers for a recent period. Rough numbers from your dashboards are fine.

  2. Step 2: Find where it breaks

    Each step is compared against the one before it, so you can see which transition is losing the most people.

  3. Step 3: Investigate why

    A broken step has several possible causes. Triage narrows them down to the one worth testing first.

Read how the diagnosis works →

Example

What a diagnosis looks like.

InvoiceFox is a made-up product. The numbers are illustrative, not a benchmark — they show the shape of the output you'll get.

Fictional example

InvoiceFox

Invoicing for freelance designers · Last 30 days

Primary bottleneck

Activation → payment

Visitors
2,400
Entry
Signups
190
7.9% of previous stage,Healthy
Activated
61
32.1% of previous stage,Watch
Paying customers
3
4.9% of previous stage,Bottleneck

Traffic and signups are not the constraint. 61 people reached value, but only 3 paid. Before buying more traffic or adding features, investigate why activated users don’t convert: pricing, the upgrade moment, or whether the problem is painful enough to pay for.

  • Do activated users hit a clear reason to upgrade?
  • Is the price anchored to the value they just experienced?
  • Did the 58 activated non-payers leave, or are they still on free?

Pricing

Free to find it. One payment to dig in.

Free Funnel Diagnosis

$0

See which stage of your funnel is breaking. Instant, private, no account.

  • Step-by-step conversion rates for your funnel
  • The stage most likely to be your primary bottleneck
  • Deterministic rules — same inputs, same result
  • Runs without AI, paid APIs, or an account
Start free diagnosis

Full Founder Triage

Coming soon

$39USD · one-time

Find out why the bottleneck stage breaks and what to test first.

  • Everything in the free diagnosis
  • Research-backed investigation of why the bottleneck stage breaks
  • Review of positioning, activation path and pricing against your inputs
  • A prioritised list of what to test first — and what to leave alone
  • Written report you keep. One payment, no subscription
Start with the free diagnosis

No subscription. No recurring charges. The full triage builds on your free diagnosis.

FAQ

Questions founders ask first.

What is Founder Triage?

A diagnostic for founders whose software product is already live but isn’t converting. You enter your funnel numbers and it identifies which stage — traffic, positioning, activation, pricing, demand or retention — most likely deserves your attention first.

Is this an idea validator?

No. Founder Triage assumes you’ve launched and have real (even small) numbers. It diagnoses a funnel that exists. If you haven’t launched yet, there’s nothing for it to measure.

Do I need analytics software?

No. Rough numbers from your hosting dashboard, payment provider and database are enough. Estimates are fine as long as you use the same time period for every stage.

How much data do I need?

More is better, but you can start small. Around 30 days of data and a few hundred visitors gives a useful signal. With less, treat the result as a direction to investigate rather than a verdict.

What if I have zero customers?

That’s a valid input and a common one. Zero customers is itself a signal: the diagnosis focuses on the earlier stages to show where people are dropping out before they ever reach payment.

Is it a subscription?

No. The funnel diagnosis is free. The Full Founder Triage is a single $39 payment. There is nothing recurring to cancel.

Does it guarantee my startup will work?

No. Nothing can. Founder Triage tells you where to look first and why, so you stop spending months on the wrong fix. What you do with that — and whether the market wants your product — is still up to you and your customers.

Stop guessing which fix comes first.

Diagnose my product — Free

Free. No signup. No subscription.