Problem Discovery & Ranking Tool

What's your niche?

Tell us about the audience you serve so we can help you discover the problems worth solving.

Your niche or target audience

What do you already know about their problems? (optional)

Audience Research (optional)

Upload transcripts from research calls, interviews, or any audience notes. These help surface real problems.

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Click to upload research transcripts (.txt, .pdf, .docx, .md)

Why start with problems? Clients don't buy consulting — they buy solutions to problems that cost them real money. The most successful consultants solve problems that are both common (many organisations face them) and costly (six- to seven-figure impact). If the problem is merely interesting but not expensive, you'll always be last on the budget list.

Brainstorm Problems

Think about the problems people in face. Select categories below for inspiration, then list 3–6 specific problems.

Select Problem Categories

Click all categories that are relevant to your niche. Each reveals guiding questions.

🤖 AI Problem Discovery

Use Claude to identify problems your niche faces — at different scopes from narrow to broad. Click any to add it to your list.

Your key is stored in memory only and never sent anywhere except Anthropic's API.

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Your Problems

List the specific problems you could help solve. Be concrete — think about problems with six-figure-plus impact.

The Six-Figure Test: For each problem, ask yourself: "Could the cost of NOT solving this be over $100,000 per year?" If yes, you have a problem worth building a practice around. Problems that cause regulatory risk, revenue loss, or operational failure get funded. Problems that are merely interesting do not.

Evaluate Each Problem

Score each problem on 8 criteria drawn from the Consulting Foundations framework. Click a problem tab to evaluate it.

Problem Ranking

Here's how your problems stack up, ranked by overall score across all criteria.