Research-driven venture building.

ToldYou systematically discovers, validates, and builds startup opportunities. Multi-stage research pipeline. Data-driven decisions. We build what the evidence supports.

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Portfolio

Validated ventures

pester

v1.0.0

Accountability engine for founders — AI-powered knowledge vault with action tracking, semantic search, and multi-source sync. Our pipeline identified acute demand among founders drowning in scattered context across Notion, Linear, Google Docs, and Otter, confirmed through founder interviews and consistent pain signal across industries.

First venture through ToldYou's multi-stage validation pipeline. pester is open-source (MIT), CLI-native, and AI-powered — shipping 13+ features from semantic search to an escalation engine. v1.0.0 is live; core CLI is stable.

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signal: market scan validation: completed stage: v1.0.0 live model: open source

How we validate

Methodology

Signal detection

Scanning market patterns, behavioral shifts, and emerging pain points across industries.

Deep research

Investigating the opportunity space, competitive landscape, and structural dynamics.

Pain validation

Talking to real founders and decision-makers. Testing whether the pain is acute enough to pay for.

Build decision

Only ventures that survive every gate get built. Most hypotheses don't. That's the point.

Team

Founders

Stanislav 'Stan' Soloshenko

co-founder · product

Systems thinker. Built products across PropTech, Real Estate, and HRTech. Designed and built ToldYou's validation pipeline from scratch.

Oleksandr Sarzhan

co-founder · investment

Investment and capital allocation background. Evaluates founders, structures deals, and brings financial discipline to the venture pipeline.

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