BostonLens
The Standard for Idea Credibility
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A credit score, but for a startup idea.

Describe your idea — what it is, who it's for, and what problem it solves. Five academic frameworks score it 0–100 and show exactly where it holds up — and where it doesn't.

BOSTON LENS SCORE
0 /100
Fintech · Top 12%
PROMISING
May 2026
REPORT #BL-2026-04829 ✓ Verified
VP Value Proposition · 4U Problem · 3D Solution · DEBT Market timing · G/P Gain vs pain
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Your idea is scored 0–100 across five academic frameworks, then refined. When you're ready, it's surfaced to investors browsing by sector — they see the score and a one-line summary and register interest with one tap. You choose what to share; the full write-up stays yours. (Investor matching is coming soon.)
For investors — Early access open

Score bands

The same five frameworks, applied the same way, whoever wrote the idea. Most land in the middle — that is what keeps the top band worth something.

0 50 65 80 100
Strong80–100
No major gap on any of the five frameworks. The bar is set high on purpose, so reaching it still means something.
Promising65–79
Solid, with one or two dimensions still unproven. Usually the most useful score to get: it names exactly what to fix.
Early Stage50–64
The thinking has started but is not finished. Where most ideas begin — a working draft, not a rejection.
Not Ready0–49
A core assumption does not survive the frameworks yet. Worth rewriting the idea before rewriting the pitch.

A score reads the description you wrote, at the moment you wrote it. Sharpen the description and the score moves — that is what makes running it more than once worth doing.

For founders
How it works
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You have an idea
Write it down — any language, any stage. A few paragraphs is enough.
STEP 1 · DESCRIBE
78 /100 VP 4U 3D DEBT G/P
AI scores your idea
5 frameworks. Consistent, unbiased — regardless of who you are.
STEP 2 · SCORE
🥇 94 🥈 82 YOU 78 4. 65
See where you rank
Compare against others in your sector. Top 12% means something.
STEP 3 · RANK
STRONG PROMISING
Investors find you
Strong & Promising ideas get discovered. No pitching cold.
STEP 4 · GET FOUND
For founders
Founders' Panel
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Original analytical synthesis. Not affiliated with any university or institution.
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My Projects
✓The problem you are solving
✓Your target customer — be specific
✓Your proposed solution
✓Why you — your unfair advantage
✓Market size or opportunity
✓Current alternatives and why they fail
✓Your revenue model or monetization idea
✓Stage: idea / MVP / launched
💬 Aim for 300–500 words — the sweet spot for accurate scoring. More detail doesn't always mean a higher score: explicit risk disclosure is read literally by the framework. You can also attach a PDF or image for additional context.
0 / 1,000
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PDF, PNG, JPG, TXT — max 5MB each
Original analytical synthesis. Not affiliated with any university or institution.
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Our Vision

Japan's Lost Decades are usually explained with interest rates and asset bubbles. But there's a quieter reason that rarely gets mentioned: ideas were dying in meeting rooms. Not because they were bad — because of whose desk they landed on.

A brilliant concept would travel from floor to floor, losing energy at every step. Whether it survived had nothing to do with its quality. It depended entirely on the room it walked into.

The world loses more to ideas that never got a fair hearing than to bad ideas that went too far.

Boston Lens exists to give every idea a score before it enters a room.

Not an opinion. Not a reaction. A score — applied consistently, without bias, regardless of who you are or where you're from. A 22-year-old in Istanbul and a 45-year-old executive in Singapore get the same methodology.

The idea either holds up — or it shows you exactly where it doesn't, so you can fix it.

What Boston Lens changes

1 · For companies — a fair hearing for every idea. Internal ideas are scored on one shared yardstick, not by rank or by who argues loudest. Leaders decide with evidence, and people at every level are heard.

2 · For people — confidence for overlooked talent. If you have the ideas but not the title or the network, test them objectively. Then champion them inside your company, or build them as your own startup.

3 · For economies — capital follows quality. When ideas are judged on substance, capital and talent flow to the best ones, not the best-connected.

A number you earned. Before the room decides.

Built independently in Istanbul by a Dokuz Eylül business graduate. Not affiliated with any U.S. university, accelerator, or institution. The name reflects the founder's view of how ideas should travel — clearly, on their own merit.
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Put every idea through the same lens.

R&D and business development teams score every idea against the same framework, so the good ones stop dying in meetings. Idea competitions, accelerator batches and university Demo Days can require a Boston Lens score from every applicant.

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Your score is on record. It cannot be altered.

When you run an analysis on Boston Lens, the score is generated by AI — not by you. It's recorded on our system the moment it's produced, and tied to a permanent report ID.

What the Verified badge tells an investor: this founder didn't write their own score. The analysis was run through Boston Lens's 5-framework methodology, the result is on record, and anyone can confirm it hasn't been changed — in one click.

Think of it as the difference between a self-reported grade and an official transcript.

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