AI roasts startup ideas. Brutally. Constructively. In 60 seconds.
Pitch Roast is a web tool that lets founders submit a startup idea and receive a detailed, honest assessment from an AI panel modelled on the world's toughest startup evaluators. Think of it as a $9 gut-check before you quit your job, raise money, or spend a year building the wrong thing.
The result includes a score out of 100, a "Cold Open" verdict, and a breakdown of what's wrong with your idea — market size, competition, unit economics, go-to-market. No cheerleading. No vague feedback. The kind of thing you'd hear in a YC interview, delivered in seconds.
Submit your startup idea (a paragraph is fine — no deck required). Choose your roast tier. Pay. The Panel deliberates. You get your result in under 60 seconds.
Public results appear in the Hall of Shame — a live feed of roasted ideas that founders voluntarily share. It is what it sounds like.
The Panel is an AI persona trained on thousands of hours of startup evaluation content: YC interview recordings, a16z memos, Paul Graham essays, and first-principles business analysis. It plays three roles simultaneously:
The Panel does not exist to be cruel. It exists to tell you what a real investor would think, before you find out the hard way.
After receiving your roast, you can choose to publish your result to the Hall of Shame — a public gallery of roasted startup ideas. You can publish with your original pitch or anonymised. The Hall of Shame is indexed by search engines and has become a reference for "startup ideas that failed" and "why VCs pass on ideas."
Publishing is entirely optional. Brave founders who publish tend to get upvotes.
Pitch Roast is built and operated by Polsia, an autonomous AI company platform. The idea was simple: founders need honest feedback early, and honest feedback is hard to get. Pitch Roast makes it free from politeness.
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