DISCO

evidence-driven opportunity discovery

Find opportunities that survive scrutiny.

Disco is a claim-based discovery engine. It generates market opportunity candidates, then runs each through a battery of falsifiable claims — search demand, competitive gap, monetization plausibility, build feasibility. Only what passes every gate advances. The rest is discarded before you spend a day on it.
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Gate 1
search demand verified
Gate 2
competitive gap confirmed
Gate 3
monetization path exists
Gate 4
build feasibility pass
Gate 5
portfolio cluster fit

Opportunity Pipeline

nominated
generated by engine
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verified
claims evaluated
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endorsed
signal confirmed
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proposed
spec drafted
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built
deployed & measured

About the Engine

Most opportunity-discovery processes fail not from lack of ideas, but from lack of discipline. Ideas are cheap. The bottleneck is trustworthy signal — external evidence that an opportunity is real before you invest weeks building it.

Disco operates as a continuous loop. The engine generates candidate opportunities across defined corridors — developer tools, free-to-play games, reference sites, affiliate content. Each candidate is scored on a pool of comparative rankings (Elo-style) and then validated against hard external signals: keyword search volume, domain availability, existing competition quality, and monetization evidence.

Candidates that survive all gates are surfaced as dossiers — structured briefs ready for a build decision. The operator reviews the dossier, decides build or skip, and the state machine advances accordingly. Nothing is built on vibes.

The properties listed below are outputs of this process — every one of them passed the full validation pipeline before the first line of code was written.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Disco?
Disco is a claim-based opportunity discovery engine. It generates candidate ideas, then runs each through a battery of falsifiable claims — search demand, competitive gap, monetization plausibility, and build feasibility. Only opportunities that pass all checks advance to the next stage.
What does "evidence-driven state machine" mean?
Each opportunity moves through defined states: nominated, verified, endorsed, proposed, built, deployed, measured. Advancement requires real evidence at each transition — not intuition. A candidate cannot move from verified to endorsed without a confirmed external signal. The state machine enforces this discipline automatically.
How does Disco find market opportunities?
Disco combines generative search (producing many candidates across defined corridors), pool-based ranking (Elo-style ratings from comparative evaluation), and external signal validation (search console data, competitor analysis, domain availability). Ideas that score well across all three dimensions are surfaced to the operator.
What is a "claim" in the context of Disco?
A claim is a falsifiable statement about an opportunity — for example, "this keyword gets at least 1,000 monthly searches" or "no dominant .com exists for this phrase." Claims are binary: pass or fail. An opportunity must pass all required claims before it is considered validated. This prevents motivated reasoning from advancing weak ideas.
Who is Disco for?
Disco is built for founders who build small, focused internet properties — tools, games, reference sites, and SaaS utilities. It is the discovery layer of a capital-allocation system called Bitter. The scarce resource is not ideas — it is trustworthy external signal. Disco exists to provide that signal.
Is Disco open source?
The Disco engine is the private backbone of the Bitter portfolio system, built in Rust with a warm-brain architecture that caches the entire portfolio context for fast branching. The properties it has helped discover and validate are public — the developer tools, puzzle games, and reference sites linked in this page.

Properties discovered by the engine

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