Ask Sensei · for founders & independents
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
Takes 3 minutes. Then a full month free — no card.
Lock in. Strong, with one soft axis.
Real promise. The proof hasn't caught up to the product.
Sensei’s read
The product is sharper than the page selling it. Presence is the soft axis — not thin work, just nothing a stranger can hold onto. No names, no numbers, no sign it's ever been run.
Show the diff. One prompt, three raw model outputs against Meerkat’s merged one — proof a paragraph can’t sell.
Why it cuts
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.
Sensei refuses to hand you five balanced options. It commits to the single highest-leverage thing to do this week — then, when you ship it, re-reads that exact thing and proves the lift. Move, verify, next. A loop, not a verdict.
Sensei keeps eyes on your live site, your competitors, and your category — and pings you the moment something actually moves. A rival drops their price, ships a new page, repositions: you hear it from Sensei, not from your churn report.
Every reading builds on the last. It knows what you shipped, what you ignored, and what you swore you'd fix — and it holds the line. That memory is the thing no blank-slate chat window can give you, and it gets sharper the longer you build.
Who Sensei reads
Tell Sensei who you are when you start — and switch anytime in settings. The standard never softens; only the vocabulary changes, so the read lands in terms you actually use.
Building a product
A startup, app, or SaaS with a market to win. Sensei talks market fit, the one move, the money math — and watches your rivals while you build.
Selling a service
Design, freelance, consulting — your site is your storefront. Sensei reads it the way a prospective client would: offer clarity, proof, and what's costing you the booking. No VC slop.
How Sensei judges
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.
Whether the problem is real, urgent, and aimed at someone specific.
Scored against
“Does anyone actually need this — or just you?”
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?”
How the product reads to a cold stranger in the first five seconds.
Scored against
“Would someone get it before they bounce?”
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
First impression
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.
Read my productWhy founders keep it
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
Week 01
Your first reading
Early
Lead with the outcome, not the feature. Put the 15-minute save in the headline.
Opens inPresence
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
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
Written by the people who pointed it at their own work first — and didn't enjoy the reading.
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 reading engine · sealed, not flattering
The offer, plainly
Statement of value
Sensei · 先生
What an outside read costs elsewhere
Amount due today
Your first reading, then a full month — no account, no card.
Then, to keep it
Find one pricing mistake or one dead conversion — it has paid for itself for a year.
The open circle
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.