MOAT Evaluator
In betaResearch
Score a business idea across Margin, Operations, Advantage and TAM — judged by a panel, not one model.
MOAT Evaluator scores a business idea out of 40 across four dimensions and returns a FUND IT / FIX IT / FLEE IT verdict. It runs the evaluation past several models at once, because the useful signal is not the average score — it is where the models disagree.
What it does
A panel, not one opinion
The same evaluation is run by several models from different families at once, so one model's blind spot does not become your verdict.
Disagreement is the finding
Where the panel splits — say Margin scored 8, 5 and 3 — that dimension is flagged as contested rather than quietly averaged into a comfortable number.
Brutally honest by design
The panel is instructed to challenge your market-size claim, your acquisition story, your pricing and your scalability, and not to encourage you.
Risks and fixes, not just a score
Every evaluation returns the top risks and the changes that would most improve the score, so a low verdict is still actionable.
How a session goes
- 1
Describe the business idea — a paragraph is plenty.
- 2
The same MOAT prompt goes to several models at once.
- 3
Each returns scores out of 10 for Margin, Operations, Advantage and TAM, with reasoning.
- 4
You get the averaged score and verdict, plus the dimensions where the panel disagreed.
- 5
The full evaluation saves to your Library so you can compare ideas later.
What people use it for
- Pressure-testing an idea before you spend money or quit a job
- Deciding which of several ideas actually deserves your time
- Finding the weak dimension before an investor finds it for you
- Sanity-checking a plan a single AI already told you was brilliant
Which key it uses
MOAT Evaluator calls OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google AI (Gemini) or xAI (Grok). On a paid plan, add a key for any of them under Account → API keys and that provider bills you directly — no credits spent. Without a key, runs spend from your included plan credits instead, and you are told when that happens.
Questions
- Why several models instead of the best one?
- Because scoring a business is subjective, and a single model gives you one confident number with no way to judge how much to trust it. If three models independently score Margin at 8, that is worth something. If they score it 8, 5 and 3, the honest answer is that it depends on assumptions you have not settled yet — and only a panel shows you that.
- Which keys does the panel use?
- Whichever provider keys you have saved. The more families you add — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI — the more meaningful the disagreement, because models from one family tend to share their blind spots. If you haven't saved a key for one of them, Bizwax runs that model for you instead, so you always get a full panel.
- What does it cost to run?
- On a paid plan, if you add your own provider API key the provider bills you directly and Bizwax charges no credits. Without a key, runs spend from the credits included with your plan — and the tool tells you when that happens. Organizations can supply one shared key for the whole team.
- Where does my work go?
- Everything you generate is saved to your Library automatically, so it survives closing the tab. Library is available on Pro and Business plans. You choose what, if anything, to share to Creations.