SaaS Moat Idea Checker

Applicant information

Step 1

Name Target customer What does it do?

Likely pricing

Buyer type

Schedule A — AI attack exposure

Step 2 · lower is better

Schedule B — moat eligibility

Step 3 · higher is better

Determination

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— Defensibility
rating

Fill the scorecard to evaluate the idea.

The result rewards ideas that can become systems of record, act on behalf of users, earn trust, coordinate groups, learn across customers, or are painful to operate.

Strongest signals

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Biggest risks

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Recommended next moves

Answer the attack and moat questions. The app will suggest how to move the idea toward one of the transcript's durable moats.

Basis for determination

This determination will cite only the criteria that affect the result after you score the idea.

Read the source-of-truth criteria

The worksheet is based on two groups of transcript criteria.

AI attack exposure

Customers can build only the few features they actually use.
Competitors can reach feature parity quickly.
Open-source alternatives become easier for non-technical buyers to deploy.
A platform or system of record can ship your feature for free.
Agencies can offer custom software at SaaS-like prices.
The AI model can absorb the product category.
The customer category itself can shrink or disappear.
Seat-based revenue can contract as agents replace people.
The underlying workflow or object being managed can stop mattering.
The human user can be replaced by an autonomous agent bundled with software.

Durable moat potential

Buyers know and trust you; partners or champions recommend and defend you.
You are a system of record where daily operations, statuses, approvals, and history live.
You are allowed to act, not merely advise or report.
Customers trust your output enough that they do not check your work.
An official body, platform, regulator, carrier, or certification process has already said yes.
Everyone is already in the software, so switching requires coordinated group movement.
Every customer makes the product smarter for every other customer through a learning loop.
The valuable part is hard to keep running: infrastructure, operations, deliverability, compliance, or constant maintenance.