IdeaM — Business Builder

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From a business idea to a detailed plan — right in your outline.

Press the hammer, answer a few questions, and IdeaM's Build workflows lay out the one-page case, the plan for your trade, the money and a getting-legal checklist — every section broken into the specific points to work through for your business.

Today

A hundred open questions

Money, permits, location, pricing, first clients — all at once, in no particular order, in your head.

With Business Builder

One organised plan

Every question in its place, broken into points to settle, in an outline you can reorganise, fill in and share.

How Start a Business works

  1. 01You

    Press Build

    The hammer in the outline toolbar. Choose Start a Business, and see how many AI generations the run will use before anything runs.

  2. 02You

    Answer

    The business name, then the trade — Restaurant (the food, the room, where it opens) or Consultancy (what you are hired to do, your ideal client).

  3. 03Builds

    The one-page case

    The problem, the customer, the offer, why now, why you, and what would have to be true.

  4. 04Builds

    Your trade's plan

    Concept and menu, site, kitchen, staffing and opening — or positioning, pricing, pipeline, delivery and running the practice.

  5. 05Builds

    The money

    Startup costs, revenue model, unit economics, fixed costs, break-even, a first-year forecast and funding — the items to price.

  6. 06Builds

    Getting legal

    A starting checklist — structure, registration, permits, insurance, banking, contracts, first 90 days — to take to your accountant or lawyer.

  7. 07Take away

    Make PDF

    The finished plan as a PDF with a title page and contents. Word and slide decks are one export away.

  8. 08Take away

    Make it yours

    Reorder, fill in your numbers, or ask the AI to write the text under any section — every AI change shown to you first.

Prefer just the skeleton? Structure only lays down the professional headings with no AI and no cost.

What lands in your outline

The real branch from the Blue Harbor Kitchen run below — section names exactly as the workflow wrote them.

Real excerpts

Written by IdeaM from a few answers — unedited first draft

Two fictional businesses, run through Start a Business on the free on-device AI. The plan arrives as an outline of the specific points to work through; these lines are copied word for word.

  • Overly Large/Corporate Operations (The Unicorn/Mega-Brewery)
  • Start-up/Pre-Revenue Breweries (Lack of Process Maturity)
  • Breweries with Structural Ownership Disputes (Internal Conflict Focus)
Steadyline Advisory › Positioning and Offer › Work you decline
  • Phased Billing Milestones (Deliverable-Based Payments)
  • Initial Deposit Structure (Retainer vs. Project Kick-off)
  • Payment Schedule Options (Net 15, Net 30)
  • Late Payment Penalties and Dispute Resolution
Steadyline Advisory › Pricing and Contracts › Payment terms and deposits
  • Establishing HACCP principles for seafood handling and storage
  • Developing temperature monitoring and cooling procedures
  • Creating staff training protocols for cross-contamination prevention
Blue Harbor Kitchen › Kitchen Operations › Health code and food safety plan
  • Health Department Operating Permit (Food Service Establishment Permit)
  • Local Zoning and Occupancy Permits
  • Food Handler Certifications and Manager Certification (e.g., ServSafe)
Blue Harbor Kitchen › Getting Legal › Licences and permits
Steadyline Advisory plan (PDF, 26 pages) Blue Harbor Kitchen plan (PDF, 26 pages)

The founder's shelf in Build

🚀 Start a BusinessYou answerThe name and the trade.You getThe one-page case, your trade's plan, the money, getting legal, and a PDF.
🍽️ RestaurantYou answerThe food, the room, and where it opens.You getConcept and menu, the local market, site and build-out, kitchen, staffing, opening.
💼 ConsultancyYou answerWhat you are hired to do, and your ideal client.You getPositioning, pricing and contracts, pipeline, delivery method, running the practice.
📊 Client EngagementYou answerThe client, the question, the deadline.You getCharter, stakeholders, context, hypotheses, deliverable outline, risks — and a slide deck.
🔍 SEO OptimizationYou answerThe site, the audience, the goal.You getKeyword map, on-page fixes, technical health, content plan, links, measurement — and a PDF.
🌐 WebsiteYou answerNothing new — it works from your outline.You getA ready-to-publish website, in one of eight templates.

Research steps search the live web when you use cloud AI; on the free on-device AI they draw on what the model already knows.

Every workflow is an outline you can open.

Press the pencil on any workflow for your own editable copy — change its questions, prompts or headings, and Build runs your version from then on. Write one from scratch, then copy or share it like any outline.

A strong first plan — that you shape. Put in your own numbers, take the legal checklist to a professional, and make every section yours.