Market Opportunity
Missing startup postmortems — searchable public archive with structured data targets a $12.0B = 20M active startups/founding teams x $600/year average spend on research, learning & intelligence subscriptions total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15% (estimated growth in entrepreneurial content & intelligence spend).
Key trends driving demand: AI-enabled summarization -- LLMs can extract structured facts and lessons from narrative postmortems, enabling scale.; Rise of indie founders -- more solo/early-stage founders seeking practical lessons rather than generic advice.; Data-driven decision making -- founders and investors want empirically-backed signals from historical failures.; Creator-economy monetization -- niche publications and archives can monetize via memberships, sponsorships, and developer APIs..
Key competitors include Failory, CB Insights, Crunchbase, Indie Hackers / Medium (community & publications).