> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.colosseum.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Capabilities

> What you can do with Colosseum Copilot: use cases, modes of operation, and quality guarantees

Copilot is designed for founders researching startup opportunities in the Solana ecosystem. It answers questions conversationally by default, and runs a full 8-step research workflow when you explicitly opt in.

## Use cases

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  <Card icon="lightbulb" href="/copilot/examples/b2b-stablecoin-payments" title="Validate a startup idea">
    Search the builder corpus and accelerator portfolio, flag who's already working on it, classify the gap, and find where differentiation exists.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="magnifying-glass" href="/copilot/examples/ai-agent-payments" title="Find who's building this">
    Surface relevant hackathon projects, accelerator companies, and products across crypto, with honest crowdedness scores.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="arrows-rotate" href="/copilot/examples/consumer-apps" title="Translate your background">
    Map your skills to underserved Solana verticals, surface relevant projects, and frame opportunities around what you already know.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="scale-balanced" href="/copilot/examples/mev-batch-auctions" title="Challenge a thesis">
    Test a claim, bullish or bearish, against real project and archive data. No sycophancy, no dismissal, just evidence.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="scroll" href="/copilot/examples/privacy-stablecoin" title="Research concepts">
    Trace how ideas evolved from cypherpunk mailing lists and Satoshi's writings through research papers to live implementations.
  </Card>

  <Card icon="chart-column" href="/copilot/examples/compare-gaming-tracks" title="Compare hackathons">
    Contrast submission volume, quality trends, and category shifts across hackathons, tracks, or time periods.
  </Card>
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See [Examples](/copilot/examples) for full prompt/response pairs from real evaluation runs.

## Modes of operation

### Conversational (default)

Answers questions with targeted API calls. Cites sources inline: project names, archive titles, URLs. Keeps responses concise. Offers to go deeper when the topic warrants it.

**Evidence floors by query type:**

| Query type        | Required evidence                                                  |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Pure retrieval    | Builder project evidence (project slugs)                           |
| Archive retrieval | Archive evidence (document titles)                                 |
| Comparison        | Project evidence for each side + archive citation                  |
| Evaluative        | Project evidence + archive citation + landscape evidence           |
| Build guidance    | Project evidence + archive citation + incumbent/landscape evidence |

### Deep Dive (explicit opt-in)

Full 8-step research workflow. Activates when you say:

* "vet this idea"
* "deep dive" / "full analysis"
* "should I build X?" / "is X worth building?"
* Accept the offer: "Want me to do a full deep-dive on this?"

**The 8 steps:**

1. **Parallel data gathering**: simultaneous searches across projects, archives, and web
2. **Project search**: semantic search with filters (hackathon, track, tech stack, winners, accelerator)
3. **Archive search**: vector + text search across 65+ curated sources with auto-cascade
4. **Landscape check**: The Grid product data + web search for current incumbents
5. **Hackathon analysis**: tag distributions, track trends, cluster groupings
6. **Incumbent validation**: honest assessment with gap classification (full / partial / false)
7. **Opportunity ranking**: identify the strongest wedge based on evidence
8. **Structured report**: similar projects, archive insights, landscape, opportunities, deep dive on top opportunity (incumbent analysis, revenue model, GTM, risks)

**Report output includes:**

* 5–8 similar projects with slugs and context
* 3–5 archive insights grounded in foundational concepts
* Current landscape per research angle
* Key patterns, gaps, and trends
* Deep dive: incumbent analysis, problem statement, revenue model, GTM strategy, founder-market fit, why crypto/Solana, risks