Whatbot · Venture builder
Whatbot is a venture builder. Bring what you already have — a process, a by-product, data only you hold. Answer five plain questions. It researches your market in your language, brings you the real choices, and builds a prototype you can hand to a buyer.
From the first programme — GETHAC, northern Thailand
153
cooperative members in the first programme
55%
of mango harvest rejected on looks
30%
of durian graded out
7
research stages Whatbot runs
How Whatbot works
First
One at a time, in your own words. Each question shows what a reviewer looks for, and “I don’t know yet” is a real answer.
Then
Seven stages, in your language, against sources in your own market. Watch it happen, or come back to the result.
Along the way
Real choices arrive as proposals — what, why, and what it costs. Accept, send back, or ask why. Nothing lands without you.
Finally
A clickable prototype, built from your brief and hosted here. Send a buyer the link. Decks and one-pagers when you need them.
The venture pipeline
Not a black box, and not a template. Each stage is real research with its sources attached, and each ends in plain language before the next one begins.
You leave with a venture brief and a market landscape you can send on — plus the full record of how every conclusion was reached.
Worked example
What they told Whatbot
“55% of our mango harvest is rejected for cosmetic defects. The fruit is good — it just doesn’t look right on a shelf.”One of five answers. A Chiang Mai cooperative, 153 members.
What Whatbot brought back
That last risk was the one thing they said they were least sure about. Whatbot went there first.
Who it is for
Cooperatives and producer groups
You have the supply, the members, and a problem you can describe precisely. Whatbot supplies the market vocabulary an investor expects.
Researchers and academics
You are already rigorous about evidence. Whatbot asks for that same rigour and does the commercial legwork you have no reason to be trained in.
Extension officers and programme staff
You work across many producers at once. Each venture keeps its own room, its own record, and its own decisions.
Venture studios
Whatbot keeps several ventures running in parallel, each with a full audit trail of what was researched, what was decided, and what it rested on.
Said plainly
About ten minutes.
A full seven-stage run is real research, not a template being filled in. Close the tab and come back — it keeps going without you.
It tells you what it couldn’t find.
When a source is paywalled or a number is unverified, that stays visible in the record instead of being smoothed over.
No score out of a hundred.
Readiness is words — strong, developing, needs validation — and it always says what would move it.
Your work stays yours.
Each venture is private to the people you add to it, with a full audit trail of what was decided and what it rested on.
Start with Whatbot
No plan, no pitch, no business model required. One honest sentence about what you have is enough to begin — the research, the decisions and the working prototype come out of that.