The Detective

Get notified

Your analysis lands in two places.

The web report. Your inbox. Both, every cycle. The bell wakes when a saved niche moves.

Start my analysisSee pricing

What ships today

Four channels. All on by default.

Delivery email

Every analysis arrives in your inbox.

The moment your report finishes rendering, you get an email with the verdict on the top niche, the rubric score, and a deep link straight to the web report. No login required to read the summary.

Every tier

In app bell

The dashboard bell wakes on signal.

A green dot appears the second a new report is ready, a saved niche shifts score, or the next cycle finishes. Click through the bell to land directly on what changed.

Every tier

Watchlist alerts

Saved niches ping you when they move.

Save a niche from any analysis. When it reappears with a higher rubric score, fresh sources, or a new competitive signal, you get a real time alert in the bell and a line in the next digest.

Explorer and up

Weekly digest

One email every Monday at 14:00 UTC.

A scannable roundup of the week. What landed, what moved on your watchlist, what got killed, what the agents flagged for the next cycle. Read it in two minutes or skim and move on.

Explorer and up

Inbox preview

Built so you can read it on your phone.

From

The Detective <hello@thedetective.io>

Subject

Your analysis is ready. Verdict: GO.

Top niche this cycle: Sworn translator workflow tooling (Spain MAEC).

Verdict

GO with caveats

Rubric 7.8 / 10. Strong demand, weak incumbents, thin moat. Kill condition included.

Watchlist: 2 saved niches moved this week. See the digest Monday for the breakdown.

Read the full analysis

Concept render. Live email matches your dashboard.

What every delivery email contains

  • The top niche this cycle, named in plain language.
  • The verdict (GO, GO with caveats, or NO GO) with the rubric score that produced it.
  • A one line summary of why the agents landed there.
  • Watchlist movement count, if you have saved niches.
  • A single read the analysis button that deep links to the web report.

No tracking pixels. No marketing footer. The email is the receipt, the dashboard is the work.

When the bell wakes

Five events. Nothing else.

  1. Analysis delivered.

    Your next cycle finished. Web report ready, email already sent. Click the bell to land on the report.

    Every tier

  2. Watchlist score rise.

    A niche you saved came back stronger in a later cycle. Higher rubric, fresher sources, or weaker incumbents named.

    Explorer and up

  3. Watchlist competitive change.

    A saved niche picked up a new player, lost an incumbent, or had a regulatory shift the agents caught.

    Explorer and up

  4. Preflight refused a run.

    Your queued idea didn't have enough public evidence for a grounded analysis. You get three salvage angles and a free re-run credit.

    Every tier

  5. Cycle queued.

    Heads up: your next analysis is scheduled. Useful if you want to drop an Idea Lab submission in before it runs.

    Explorer and up

By tier

What gets delivered, by tier.

Starter

$12.99 one time

  • Delivery email when your one analysis lands
  • Web report
  • In app bell for delivery
  • No watchlist
  • No weekly digest

Explorer

$24.99/mo

  • Delivery email every week
  • Watchlist alerts on 5 saved niches
  • Weekly Monday digest
  • Bell wakes on every event

Hunter

$99/mo

  • Delivery email every 3 days
  • Watchlist alerts on 15 saved niches
  • Weekly Monday digest
  • Bell wakes on every event
  • Score rise alerts across the wider ranked pool

Operator

$299/mo

  • Delivery email daily
  • Watchlist alerts, unlimited saved niches
  • Weekly Monday digest
  • Bell wakes on every event
  • Score rise + competitive change across the full pool

Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp delivery are coming as separate channels. See the Platform menu in the navbar.

FAQ

Questions about delivery.

Can I turn off the delivery email?

Yes, from Settings. The web report still lands on your dashboard and the bell still wakes. We'd rather you got the receipt by default, but the toggle is yours.

Does the bell make noise?

No sound. A small green dot appears on the bell icon in your dashboard navbar. Click it to see the unread events. Nothing pushes to your phone unless you wire WhatsApp later.

What timezone is the weekly digest in?

The send fires Mondays at 14:00 UTC. That lands mid morning in the Americas and late afternoon in Europe. Send time is fixed for now; per account scheduling is on the list.

What counts as a watchlist movement?

A saved niche reappears in a later analysis with a higher rubric score, a new source URL the prior run didn't have, or a competitive change the agents named explicitly. Trivial re-ranks don't trigger an alert.

What if my email bounces?

We retry on transient failures and surface a delivery warning in your dashboard if the bounce sticks. Your reports are always readable on the web regardless. Update your email in Settings.

Are there mobile push notifications?

Not yet. The dashboard bell and email are the two channels that ship today. The WhatsApp page covers the planned mobile path for founders who live there.

Two channels. Zero noise.

Web and email by default. The bell wakes on signal, not on opinion. Start an analysis and you'll see how quiet the inbox stays.

Start my analysis