Start with what you don't know.
An idea arrives with open questions and a landscape you haven't mapped. Explore gathers the research and lets Orbit structure and visualize it, so you decide what to build from a clear picture, not a hunch.
Before the pitch
How to research a startup idea.
You research a startup idea by getting the whole picture in one place: what exists, what competitors do, and the open questions you can't answer yet. Scattered across a dozen tabs, it tells you nothing. Structured on one board, it tells you what to build.
Working with Orbit
You bring the pieces. Orbit does the work.
Drop the raw stuff, notes, links, a screenshot. Then Orbit goes to work on the board with you.
Searches the web
Ask what you can't answer. Orbit comes back with a cited answer.
Generates images
Coming soon: describe a visual and Orbit makes it.
Builds previews
See the idea as a working screen, not a description.
Visualizes your data
Turn a rough list into a table you can read.
Give it structure
A board you and Orbit think on together.
Holding the pile is the easy half. Structuring it is where Orbit works with you: you connect the pieces, it maps what you still need to know, and the research fills it in.
Connect the pieces.
Draw links between cards to show what leans on what. The pile becomes a map you can read, before any code exists.
Orbit maps what's unknown.
Point Explore at the board. Orbit reads it and surfaces what you still need to know: the open questions, the competitors to check, the gaps. A vague idea becomes a short list of unknowns.
Research fills it in.
Run the questions that matter. Each comes back researched, with sources you can check. Now you decide what to build from a clear picture.
It carries forward
Nothing you explore gets thrown away.
The board isn't a warm-up. The research that held up carries into the pitch, and the pitch into the build. What you learn here is what the app gets built on, one turn before the first screen.
Next in the loop
Now give it a shape.
You know what you want to build. Shaping turns it into a pitch and a scope the agent builds from.
First questions
What you're wondering.
How do you research a startup idea in Orbit?
You gather it on a canvas: notes, links, screenshots, and the questions you can't answer yet. Orbit searches the web, visualizes the pieces, and structures the board. From a clear picture you decide what to build, instead of guessing.
Do I need to be technical to use it?
No. You drop notes, links, and screenshots on a board and ask questions in plain words. Orbit does the research and the structure. No code.
Isn't this a notes app?
A notes app stops at the notes. Explore holds them on a whiteboard, researches your open questions, and connects the pieces into a shape you can build. It's the start of the app, not a place to park thoughts.
What happens to my board when I start building?
Nothing gets thrown away. The notes you kept and the research that held up carry into the pitch, and from there into the build.