What should youactually build?
Upload your résumé and Cardinal Direction maps where you have real expertise, then ranks the industries and product ideas you're best positioned to build, each one backed by evidence from the public web. Already have an idea? Pressure-test it against real demand instead, no résumé needed.
The actual Cardinal Direction app, live.
Start from your background, or start from an idea.
Cardinal Direction is two separate, free flows. Pick the one that fits where you're starting from.
Upload your résumé
We map where you have real, provable depth, you confirm or correct it, and we hand back a ranked shortlist of industries with specific product ideas in each, every one backed by evidence from the public web.
No LinkedIn, no GitHub. A résumé file is all it needs.Already have an idea?
Skip the résumé entirely. Describe the idea and who it's for, and Cardinal Direction checks it against real, current demand evidence for that audience, no background claims, just a demand read.
Want it matched to you afterward? You can still bring in your résumé from there.Points you at the wedge worth building, evidence-graded, and it won't score what it can't back up.
Turns the wedge into production software. Ship Check, Vibe Rescue, or a full Build, flat fee, senior team.
Start free. Go deeper when it pays.
The ranked shortlist and a light read on your top three industries cost nothing. Everything past that is optional.
- Ranked shortlist of 10 industries
- Product ideas for your top 3
- Public-web evidence, source-checked
- Shareable 1200×675 export
- Everything in Free
- Product ideas for all 10 industries
- Unlimited re-runs
- More sources beyond the core three
- Full analysis, more product ideas
- Named candidate customers
- Full corpus across every accepted source
- Delivered as a packet
Stop guessing what to build. Let your track record decide.
Run Cardinal Direction free, then bring the wedge you pick to Cardinal Stacks. We build it with you.