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Ask Sensei · for founders

You're too close to see what's broken. Sensei isn't.

It reads your product like a ruthless outsider — scores it across four lenses, finds the blind spot everyone's too polite to mention, and names the one move to make this week.

Read your homepage — free, no account

3 minutes. No signup. See what's costing you conversions.

Takes 3 minutes. Then a full month free — no card.

Health cardMeerkat · getmeerkat.dev
0/ 100

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Lock in. Strong, with one soft axis.

Real promise. The proof hasn't caught up to the product.

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Sensei’s read

“Presence is the weak axis. Zero customer names, testimonials, or revenue — the founder story isn't social proof yet.”

The one move

Add one testimonial — a face, a name, a number.

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Why it cuts

Everyone around you is too polite.

Your team is invested. Your friends are kind. Your investors want the round to work. None of them will tell you the real thing. Sensei has no stake in your feelings — only in the truth that moves the number.

Four scores. Nowhere to hide.

Market Fit, Strategy, Presence, and Edge — each scored 0–100 with the reasoning spelled out. You see exactly where you're bleeding, not a vague grade.

One move. Not a to-do list.

Sensei refuses to hand you five balanced options. It commits to the single highest-leverage thing to do this week — and the metric that proves it worked.

It remembers you.

Every reading builds on the last. It knows what you shipped, what you ignored, and what you swore you'd fix — so it gets sharper the longer you build.

How Sensei judges

A chatbot has opinions. Sensei has a rubric.

Paste your homepage into a chatbot and you get a fresh, agreeable take every time. Sensei reads every product through the same four lenses, scored the same way — so the number actually means something, and so does the one move it hands back.

01 / 04

Market Fit

Whether the problem is real, urgent, and aimed at someone specific.

Scored against

Does anyone actually need this — or just you?

02 / 04

Strategy

Pricing, motion, and sequencing — the path from here to a business.

Scored against

Is there a road to a real company, or just a feature?

03 / 04

Presence

How the product reads to a cold stranger in the first five seconds.

Scored against

Would someone get it before they bounce?

04 / 04

Edge

The one thing you can defend that a fast follower can't copy.

Scored against

What can only you do?

Same four lenses, every time. That's the difference between a chatbot's mood and a verdict.

A chatbot

  • A new opinion every time you ask

  • Five balanced, hedge-everything options

  • Forgets you the moment the tab closes

  • Flatters you if you ask it nicely

Sensei

  • One fixed rubric, scored 0–100, every product

  • The single highest-leverage move this week

  • Remembers every reading and what you shipped

  • No stake in your feelings — only the number

Reading opened in full

Subject · Meerkat/getmeerkat.dev

Unedited · 78/100

We pointed it at a real product. This is the whole read.

First impression

78/100

The headline

Score7 / 10

Stop prompt engineering. Just write what you mean.

It tells me what to stop doing, not what I'll gain. The subtext mentions saving 15 minutes per prompt — that should be the headline.

Say this instead

Turn 15-minute prompt battles into 2-minute wins.

The bar · Stripe leads with “Financial infrastructure for the internet” — the outcome, not “Stop building payment systems.”

The most expensive gap

Score4 / 10 · critical

You claim to save “thousands” in credits and 15 minutes per prompt, but show zero customer names, testimonials, or revenue metrics. The founder story helps — it isn't social proof.

The move

Add one testimonial with a face, a name, and a number: “cut our iteration time from 20 minutes to 3.”

The pattern underneath

Competing on features instead of proving ROI.

It's easy to keep building prompt templates when the real challenge is proving $7/month saves users time and improves output quality.

Instead

Track user time savings religiously and lead with ROI proof in every message.

If I were you

Get 10 paying customers in the next 30 days by offering free prompt audits in AI communities.

Win condition · 10 paid subscribers · >80% month-two retention

One of 267 readings delivered. No score theater — a point of view, written down, with the one thing to do next.

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Why founders keep it

An audit fades. A reading accrues.

A one-off audit is true the day it's written and stale by the next release. Sensei remembers what you shipped, judges what moved, and hands you the next move already loaded into the surface that runs it — so every week you're acting, not auditing.

One living picture of the company

Market FitStrategyPresenceEdgeLaunch PlanInvestor Readiness
  1. 64

    Week 01

    Your first reading

    Early

    Lead with the outcome, not the feature. Put the 15-minute save in the headline.

    Opens inPresence

  2. 71

    Week 03

    Two readings later

    Building

    Remembers · You rewrote the headline. Bounce dropped — so it moved on.

    Add one named testimonial with a real number. Presence is your soft axis.

    Opens inContent Playbook

  3. 79

    Week 06

    A month in

    Strong

    Remembers · Testimonial's live. Presence climbed 14 points.

    Edge is now the weakest lens. Name the one thing only you can do.

    Opens inEdge

A note, plainly

Most advice tools tell you what you want to hear. I built the opposite — something that reads your product the way a sharp stranger does, and isn't polite about it.

It has a point of view, a memory of every move you've made, and the nerve to name one thing instead of five. The reading above is real, start to finish. Point Sensei at your own product and see what it says back.

— The Sensei team

The offer, plainly

An outside read used to cost a fortune.

Statement of value

Sensei · 先生

What an outside read costs elsewhere

  • A strategy consultantone-off engagement$15,000
  • A fractional CMOper month, on retainer$7,000
  • A research-tool stackper month, you assemble it$500

Amount due today

$0free to start

Your first reading, then a full month — no account, no card.

Then, to keep it

$29/ month
  • A reading every week
  • Every module unlocked
  • Cancel anytime

Find one pricing mistake or one dead conversion — it has paid for itself for a year.

The open circle

The circle you can't close from the inside.

You can draw your product a thousand times and never see the gap. Sensei stands outside it. A free reading of your homepage — three minutes, no signup.

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