TRI DILIGENCE
A BUSINESS PODCAST / AI · THREE MINDS · ONE IDEA

Business ideas,
unwrapped.

Every episode, one business idea meets three recurring AI host perspectives — and gets taken apart: the market, the money, the tech, and the things that quietly kill companies. Ending with three honest verdicts: invest, wait, or pass.

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THREE MINDS · THREE LENSES
Jake
THE MARKETER

Brand, customers, and whether anyone will love this enough to tell a friend.

Sarah
THE BACKER

Unit economics, margins, market size, and when the money comes back.

Ryan
THE TECHNOLOGIST

What you buy, what you build, and the operational traps under the pitch.

Episodes

EP 10 The Regulars
Can a small neighborhood café ever pay you to leave it? 11 MIN → EP 09 Netcode Games
Can a backend architect turn serious engineering into a real edge in indie game dev on Steam? 11 MIN → EP 08 Glitter Scoop
Is a 10-week seasonal shop a real business, or a hobby wearing a register? 10 MIN → EP 07 Screen Threads
Can you sell screen-accurate movie and tv t-shirts without getting sued? 11 MIN → EP 06 The Sovereign Cloud
Can europe build a sovereign cloud on open source primitives without turning operations into the real product? 9 MIN → EP 05 Havit
Can a "do i already own this?" app turn collector anxiety into a real business? 10 MIN → EP 04 Vintel
Can an ai layer for wine cellars beat cellartracker and vivino before they copy it? 10 MIN → EP 03 Ember & Ice
Can a premium fire table beat a $120 knockoff by winning on design, durability, and safety? 12 MIN → EP 02 Sprig
Can an ai grow box actually turn a profit? 15 MIN → EP 01 Paws & Threads
Can a premium dog-and-cat apparel brand overcome fit, returns, and category ceiling enough to become a real business? 14 MIN →