Every program admits on instinct. Greenlight gives you evidence - on the idea and on the founder - before the cohort begins.
Founder-market fit is how founding teams get evaluated before there is any product. We turn it into a structured, per-applicant read.
Each founder in your pipeline runs a Reality Check: a same-day, AI-run read that answers the two questions every admission decision hinges on - is the market there, and is this the founder to serve it?
The Market Scan covers the market side: what customers already pay for and what that says about problem priority, timing and trend direction, and who controls access to the customer - each component rated plainly, with the evidence behind it.
The Founder-Market Fit read covers the founder side, across five advisory dimensions. Hover to see what each one asks:
Your program receives the results as a clear, shareable report per founder - printable, comparable across your pipeline, with two questions answered and the evidence behind both.
One line to hold: the read is advisory. It does not change the market verdict, which is produced only from real market signal. A strong résumé doesn't rescue a red-light market result. A thin background doesn't disqualify a genuine green one. You get both reads, clearly separated, so you can weigh them yourself.
If your program screens on specific criteria - your own rubric for what a fundable team looks like - we can build the Founder-Market Fit component around your methodology. Per-program, confidential, shaped to how you actually work. That's a design-partner conversation, not a live self-serve feature. Bring it to the table when we talk.
Every sprint adds to a structured dataset we are actively building: what founders brought to market, what the market said back, and how the founder's background correlated with the outcome. Most of what exists about founder-market fit was written by people who won. Ours includes the founders who ran a clean experiment and heard "no." That is the more instructive half.
Unlike a model or a methodology, that record - what real markets rejected, and why, and who was building it - is not something that can be easily replicated. It accumulates with every sprint. The programs that work with us at this stage help shape what gets captured and how the read is structured. That is a real advantage - for them and for us.
Reach out if you're an incubator, accelerator, or VC firm exploring partnership opportunities. We'd love to hear from you.