For Investors
Building the infrastructure for high-density, high-integrity startup validation.
Market Pain Points
Founders struggle to get credible validation at the speed of their market.
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High, front‑loaded research costs (typical agency quotes of $15K–$50K) with unclear ROI.
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Slow cycles: insights arrive after the opportunity window closes.
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Generic AI advice lacks methodological rigor and is hard to trust.
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Evidence is fragmented across interviews, surveys, and public data—difficult to synthesize.
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Privacy and compliance concerns create friction and stall exploration.
Our Approach
Hypothesis-driven research powered by the proprietary Navigator Protocol.
Protocol-Driven Logic
The Navigator Protocol decomposes ideas into falsifiable assumptions, mapping risks across market, competition, and urgency before any code is written.
Traffic Light Status
Real-time risk scoring (Red/Yellow/Green) provides clear, unambiguous signals on idea viability and investment readiness.
Brutal Honesty Layer
Utilizing LLM-as-a-Judge patterns to provide high-integrity, un-biased critical assessments that mimic a top-tier VC pitch review.
Founder-Centric Roadmaps
Outputs are translated directly into prioritized validation tasks, ensuring speed to data is the founder's primary advantage.
Team Bios
Experienced operators building the future of validated decision-making.
Tishana Simon
Founder & CEO
Founder of Data Minders Business Research and a veteran research consultant who has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs, academics, and organizations through data-driven decision-making in markets where that support was nearly nonexistent. Research Navigator is her answer to a problem she has spent her career solving one client at a time — now built to scale.
Anthony A.S. Baptiste
Co-Founder & CTO
Senior Software Engineer at the forefront of the AI transition, specializing in agentic systems, document intelligence, and workflow automation. He architects the infrastructure that turns Research Navigator's vision into a platform that doesn't just use AI — it thinks with it.
Advisors
Domain Experts
Network of innovation advisors, entrepreneurship academics, and business educators across Europe, North America, and the Caribbean supporting our regional and global expansion.
Tech Stack & IP Highlights
High-performance hybrid architecture and proprietary validation logic.
High-concurrency Go orchestrator and Python AI brain, hosted on Google Cloud Run for global scale and performance.
Fast, reactive Vue 3 dashboard leveraging Pinia for persistent state management, optimized for AI search engines.
The Navigator Protocol, a multi-stage research and planning framework that systematically de-risks early-stage ventures.
Evaluation-first architecture utilizing LLM-as-a-Judge patterns to maintain un-biased, high-integrity research outputs.
Production-grade PostgreSQL via Google Cloud SQL, providing enterprise reliability and secure data persistence.
Traction & Roadmap
Milestones, early signals, and what’s next.
Validated Early Signals
- Demand evidence: 50 structured founder interviews completed; 84% confirmed the core pain point.
- Product: Live working demo; multi-agent Go/Python runtime in closed beta.
- Early users: 6 beta sign-ups; institutional pilot conversations underway.
- Third-party validation: CARIRI grant recipient (Shaping the Future of Innovation); top 9 of 40 placement, UWI Build and Pitch Competition.
Near-Term Roadmap
Phase 1: Concept Validation & Pretotype
Outreach resulting in 15 initial submissions and collaborator meetings, followed by concepts mapping and a clickable frontend prototype.
Phase 2: MVP Development & Closed Beta
Engineering the multi-agent Go-Python backend runtime (including "Brutal Gatekeeper" and "LLM-as-a-Judge"), securing early sign-ups, and running closed beta testing.
Phase 3: IP Protection & Launch Prep
Executing local and international trademark and IP protection steps, establishing official business registrations, and final launch marketing setup.
Phase 4: Official Launch & Scale
Commercial launching to acquire paying customers, growing our technical team, and scaling operations to serve wider regional and global markets.