Spongeware helps you find out which ideas are worth your team's time, and which ones aren't, before the work starts.
Is this worth building?
Find out before you spend the engineering time.
Where ideas come from
Drop in a feature idea and get a verdict before you write a line of code.
Point it at a Google Meet transcript. Every feature mentioned gets pulled out and evaluated.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT to run an idea through Spongeware without leaving the chat.
The output
You get both sides of the argument: what makes it worth building, what argues against it, and what nobody has checked yet.
Every idea comes back as one of three answers.
Build
Worth the engineering time. Go and ship it.
Defer
Not a bad idea, just not now. You get what would have to change first.
Reframe
The problem is real but this feature isn't the fix. You get what to build instead.
The Case For
The Case Against
Build only if
1. You can ship before Q3, ahead of Shopify's version going live
2. Engineering signs off on the integration during sprint planning
Next steps
1. Ask engineering how much traffic the outside service allows
2. Check your ship date against Shopify's launch date
Features
One place to check an idea before it turns into engineering time.
Spongeware researches your market, competitors, and customers once, then reuses that for every idea you send it.
Every answer shows the case for, the case against, what has to be true for it to work, and what nobody has checked yet.
For
Against
Web, Slack, meeting notes, or your AI assistant. They all go to the same place.
One AI builds the strongest case for your feature. Another tries to tear it apart. You read both and decide.
A Build answer arrives written up and ready to pick up, not as another doc someone has to turn into work.
Review each ticket before it goes across, or let it send automatically.
The math
Microsoft's experimentation team found only one in three feature ideas improves the metric it was built for. Spongeware is the check that runs before the sprint, not the post-mortem after it.
Sources: Pendo, 2019 Feature Adoption Report (615 software companies). Kohavi, Crook & Longbotham, Microsoft Experimentation Platform. The $10,400 is an example, not a survey result.
FAQ
You send it a feature idea, from the web form, Slack, a meeting transcript, or your AI assistant. Several AIs then argue it out: some build the case for it, others attack it, and all of them use what Spongeware already knows about your company. What comes back is one of three answers, Build, Defer, or Reframe, with both sides of the argument attached. You find out before you spend the engineering time, not after.
No. Spongeware evaluates one feature at a time. It's not trying to rank your whole backlog or replace your sprint board. It answers one question: is this specific idea worth the build time.
You give it your company's web address once. Spongeware researches your market, your competitors, and your customers, and saves what it finds. Every idea you send after that is judged against your actual business, not generic advice.
Anything you decide to build goes straight to Jira, Linear, or GitHub as a ready-to-work ticket. Anything you don't stays inside Spongeware, so it isn't lost but doesn't clutter your backlog either.
Yes. The free tier runs a full evaluation with the complete case for, case against, and verdict. It's meant to be good enough on its own to prove the analysis is worth paying for.
No. Point it at your company URL once, then submit a feature idea from the web, Slack, a meeting, or your AI assistant. No integrations required to get your first verdict.
Your first evaluation is free. No setup, no credit card. Just your company URL and a feature.
No credit card required · First evaluation free