Executive Summary

Many creators and marketing professionals lose ideas in a fractured ecosystem: drafts pile up across email, notes, DMs, social platforms and task apps, and by one estimate the total addressable audience is roughly 80 million people who would spend about $120/year on better tooling. The result is wasted time, missed content opportunities and inconsistent publishing for individuals and small teams who lack a simple, reliable capture-to-publish path. You could build a unified “idea inbox” that ingests snippets from every channel, deduplicates and groups related notes using semantic embeddings, restores context with retrieval-augmented generation, and automatically drafts briefs, headlines and social-ready posts. With a core product that combines cross-channel ingestion, fast semantic search and templates that map to publishing workflows, the business could serve a TAM of $9.6B (80M users x $120 ARPA/year); market signals are strong (Market Score 92/100, Revenue Potential 86/100) because creator-economy growth, AI-native tooling and channel fragmentation are converging now. To stand out you’ll need impeccable integrations and privacy controls, best-in-class semantic relevance leading to demonstrably higher publish rates, and a low-friction monetization path (freemium + creator add-ons or team tiers). Strengths include clear product-market fit and technically achievable differentiation via embeddings and RAG; challenges are medium competition, integration breadth, data privacy concerns and customer acquisition cost. Focus on a specific initial wedge (e.g., indie creators or marketing ops teams) and measure lift in published output to validate value before broad expansion.

Market Opportunity

Drafts pile up, ideas lost — unified idea inbox with AI context targets a $9.6B = 80M creators & marketing professionals x $120 ARPA/year total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18% annual growth (creator tools + productivity apps).

Key trends driving demand: Creator-economy growth -- more individuals/businesses need tooling to consistently publish and monetize content; AI-native tooling -- embeddings and RAG enable context restoration and automated drafting from scraps; Channel fragmentation -- ideas are captured across many apps, increasing demand for a unified capture layer; Attention scarcity -- faster iteration and reuse of ideas becomes a competitive advantage for creators.

Key competitors include Readwise (Reader + Highlights), Notion, Mem (mem.ai), Zapier (adjacent workaround).

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Drafts pile up, ideas lost — unified idea inbox with AI context

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