ConsumerIQ: Validate Demand Before You Build

ConsumerIQ is a demand validation engine for founders launching physical consumer products. The most expensive founder mistake isn't building badly. It's building something the market never asked for. Studies at CB Insight shows that roughly 43% of founders worldwide fail because their product has no market need, meaning no one actually wants to buy it. Inventory, supplier deposits, packaging, and launch ad budgets all get committed long before a single sale is proven. ConsumerIQ catches that risk before a dollar is spent on production. Founders submit a product concept, category, target market, and audience through a guided onboarding form. ConsumerIQ then maps the category to relevant marketplace and social data sources and scrapes real signals like competitor listings, reviews, complaints, pricing, SERP results, and social trends, using Bright Data's marketplace datasets, SERP API, and scraping browser across Amazon, Walmart, Etsy, and social platforms. The signals feed a hybrid AI pipeline. A local GPU stack runs Llama 3.2 3B for ReAct agent loops, fastembed MiniLM-L12 for embeddings, and Qwen 3.5 0.8B for CJK to EN translation and compliance preprocessing, with higher-order data synthesis to the dashboard powered by the Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled model served via featherless.ai. Signals persist in Postgres with pgvector and a Cognee knowledge graph for semantic memory. A Go ingest service, FastAPI admin layer, Redis queues, and Celery workers (split into inference and scraping pools) orchestrate the end-to-end pipeline behind an NGINX gateway. The output is a founder-ready dashboard across four sections (Market, Demand, Competitors, Launch) plus an interactive agent chat for follow-up questions. The final deliverable is a clear verdict: Build, Pivot, Stop, or Refine. One input. Real market data. One clear decision, built for founders who need an answer, not another dashboard.