Radius - Your Straight Path To The Right Business

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  RADIUS - POWERED BY PERPLEXITY SONAR

Inspiration

The inspiration for Radius came from witnessing countless entrepreneurs waste years and thousands of dollars on business ideas that were doomed from the start. We realized that 90% of startups fail not because of poor execution, but because they never validated their core assumptions about the market, customers, and competition. Traditional market research is expensive, time-consuming, and often inaccessible to solo founders and early-stage entrepreneurs. We envisioned a world where any founder could get instant, AI-powered market intelligence that would give them a "radius" of understanding around their business idea - showing them exactly where the opportunities and threats lie, and providing a straight path to making informed decisions about whether to pursue, pivot, or abandon their venture.

What it does

This is a FINANCIAL WELLBEING APPLICATION! Radius is a comprehensive business validation platform that transforms vague business ideas into data-driven investment decisions. Here's how it works: 🎯 Intelligent Survey System: Our 10-question assessment covers every critical dimension of business viability - from market understanding and competitive positioning to execution readiness and capital requirements. 📊 AI-Powered Market Intelligence: Leveraging Perplexity Sonar API, Radius automatically conducts deep market research, competitor analysis, and trend identification based on your business description and target market. 💡 Personalized Validation Score: Get an instant 0-100% viability score with color-coded feedback and specific recommendations for improvement. 📈 Comprehensive Market Reports: Receive detailed analysis including:

Total Addressable Market (TAM) calculations Competitive landscape mapping Customer persona development Industry trend analysis Funding landscape assessment Risk factor identification

How we built it

We combined the power of Perplexity and Human Creativity to co-develop this solution

Challenges we ran into

IDEATION MARKET RESEARCH PRODUCT VALIDITY USER EXPERIENCE

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The concept itself is something that I am proud of! Being an Agency owner I have seen and have worked with a lot of founders and sadly, many of them had no idea what they were building and what they expected their product to do. Product Market Fit in the startup sector is like common-sense in human society - rare but essential

What we learned

Through a collaboration of AI and Human Creativity the major learning was in finding the right equilibrium between research and implementation.

Disclaimer

The Provided Code in GIT is without my SONAR API and so is the live link since I am out of credits and don't know if that's allowed to share - entire functionality is shown in the video - I plan to launch this in November 2025 and enable Community to have founders discuss ideas and problems with AskPerplexity Features.

Built With

• dom
• express.js
• frontend:-html5-for-structure-css3-for-styling-(with-modern-features-like-flexbox
• grid
• html5
• interactivity
• javascript
• node.js
• vanilla