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Cognitive Reality Check

Stress-test ideas before belief sets in

Most ideas die from contact with reality, not lack of passion.
This tool finds the fatal flaws before you commit.

Cognitive Reality Check is a framework for testing whether an idea survives collision with actual human behavior, market forces, and physics.

Not a business plan template. Not a vision board. A reality distortion detector that reveals the gap between what sounds good and what actually works.

🧪 Test Your Idea

Daily Friction 50
Seamless High Effort
Social Acceptability 50
Awkward Normal
Hardware Dependency 50
Software Only Device Critical
AI Leverage 50
Minimal Core Value
Buyer Urgency 50
Nice-to-Have Must-Have
Network Effects 50
None Viral Growth
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Enter an idea and adjust sliders
The reality score reveals whether your idea survives contact with actual human behavior.

Historical Reality Checks

✓ Uber (2010) - Score: 82
Low daily friction (just tap), high urgency (need ride NOW), strong network effects. Reality matched promise.
⚠ Google Glass (2013) - Score: 34
High hardware dependency, socially awkward, unclear buyer urgency. Failed reality check despite hype.
✗ Juicero (2016) - Score: 18
Massive hardware dependency ($700 machine), high daily friction, low urgency. Spectacularly failed reality test.
✓ ChatGPT (2022) - Score: 91
Zero friction (web browser), core AI leverage, immediate utility, viral network effects. Perfect reality alignment.

Why Reality Checks Matter

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Friction Kills

If your idea requires daily effort, it competes with inertia. Humans optimize for zero friction. That's not laziness—it's physics.

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Social Reality

People won't do things that make them look weird. Social acceptability is binary: you're either normal or you're niche.

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Hardware is Hard

Every physical component is a point of failure. Software scales infinitely. Hardware scales linearly and breaks.

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Urgency = Revenue

Nice-to-have ideas die in economic downturns. Must-have ideas survive everything. Urgency determines survival.