Cofounder compatibility test

A short online questionnaire that two founders each take before committing to work together. It looks at big-picture versus detail focus, appetite for risk, how directly each person communicates and how they decide. When both finish, the tool gives a fit score, points to where they are likely to clash, suggests ways to handle each difference and creates a report an investor could read. You can build a first version with a form tool, a database and a simple dashboard. You sell to Indian accelerators first and to US ones later.

People pick cofounders because they are friends or ex-colleagues, then find out months later that one wants to move fast and the other wants certainty. By then equity is split and money is spent. A structured exercise before that point helps founders spot differences early and agree how to handle them.

• Psychology or HR graduates who can design sound questions
• Community builders who know many early-stage founders
• No-code builders who want a niche product to sell to accelerators

• Individual test at ₹3,000 per person, or about ₹5,000 per team
• Accelerator pilots with a ₹1,00,000 setup fee plus ₹10,000 per batch of up to five teams
• Annual licence at ₹15,00,000 for unlimited teams
• Coaching at ₹5,000 an hour and custom analysis projects from ₹2,00,000

1. 1Write 30 questions with a psychology graduate or HR professional, and try them on ten founders to see which ones separate people.
2. 2Run the test for three real cofounder pairs free, spend 30 minutes with each on the results, and ask whether it changed their talks.
3. 3Take those write-ups to the organisers of two founder meetups or accelerators and offer a paid pilot.

Anyone can write a personality quiz, but few can show it measures what it claims. A fit score that scares a pair apart, or falsely reassures them, does real harm, so present it as a conversation aid, not a verdict. The answers are sensitive personal data, and contracts with accelerators move slowly.