Built for Every Stage of Capital Allocation
Whether you are a solo developer risking your own time or an institutional fund managing millions, validation must happen before capital is spent. KillScore provides deterministic market truth across four critical use cases.
Whether you are a solo developer risking your own time or an institutional fund managing millions, validation must happen before capital is spent. KillScore provides deterministic market truth across four critical use cases.
1. Solo & Indie Developers
The Problem: You have three different game ideas, limited savings, and two years of personal time on the line. Passion makes it impossible to judge which idea has an actual commercial path.
How KillScore Helps:
- Identify Market Saturation: Instantly test all three concepts against 127,000+ Steam titles to see which genre space is already overcrowded.
- Protect Personal Capital: Get a definitive verdict before quitting your day job or committing years of your life to an unviable project.
- Data-Backed Pitching: If your score is BUILD, use the math-backed data to present a clear thesis to publishers and early backers.
2. AA & AAA Game Studios
The Problem: Internal greenlight meetings are dominated by subjective opinions, executive bias, and emotional attachment to legacy IP features. Months of pre-production budget are burned before a concept is killed.
How KillScore Helps:
- Standardized Pre-Production Audits: Run every incoming pitch or prototype through a cold, repeatable evaluation framework.
- Eliminate Executive Bias: Replace circular internal debates with objective arithmetic.
- Scope & Feature Calibration: Use the Vision AI module to test key art and screenshot positioning against top-performing competitors in your genre.
3. Publishers & Investors
The Problem: Pitch decks are designed to look convincing. Generative AI makes high-concept art cheap, masking weak underlying game mechanics and oversaturated market positioning.
How KillScore Helps:
- Instant Deal Flow Filtering: Evaluate dozens of incoming pitch decks weekly with a single metric.
- Reduce Portfolio Risk: Identify high-risk titles early and direct your capital exclusively toward concepts with proven market gaps.
- Repeatable Due Diligence: Run the arithmetic today and run it again in three months. The score remains objective and free from market hype.
4. Game Incubators & Accelerators
The Problem: Early-stage founders waste critical program time developing concepts that the market will reject, delaying their path to fundraising or launch.
How KillScore Helps:
- Cohort Validation: Audit your entire cohort’s game concepts on Day One.
- Pivot Strategy: Help founders identify exact pivot vectors when their initial concept hits a KILL or PIVOT verdict.
- Measure Progress: Track how concept adjustments improve market positioning scores over the course of the program.
Do not guess what the market wants. Run your parameters through the decision engine and get a math-backed verdict in under 60 seconds.