I Built an AI That Generates Market Research Reports in 5 Minutes

Last year, a friend of mine was pitching his startup to investors. He needed market research — TAM/SAM/SOM numbers, competitor analysis, the whole nine yards. A consulting firm quoted him $18,000 and a 6-week timeline . He couldn't afford it. So he did what most founders do: he asked ChatGPT. The investor checked the numbers. Half of them were fabricated. The "sources" linked to pages that didn't exist. The pitch died in that room. That conversation haunted me. Not because my friend lost the deal — but because I realized millions of founders face this exact problem every day. They need real market data, but they're stuck between a $20K agency and a hallucinating chatbot. So I built something in between. The Problem Nobody Talks About Here's a dirty secret about AI-generated research: ChatGPT hallucinates roughly 37% of its citations. I tested this myself. I asked it for market size data on the European SaaS market. It gave me confident numbers, complete with source URLs. Three out of f