Evidence before code
Panlode is an open-source Claude Code workspace that finds real customer pain, turns it into startup ideas and kills the weak ones with cheap experiments, before you build anything.
The idea in one minute
Building got cheap; knowing what to build did not. Panlode points Claude Code at the step most builders skip:
- Scout.
/scout-onlinesends three read-onlysignal-scoutsubagents to public forums, review sites and freelance or job boards. They bring back signals: someone describing a recurring problem, ideally one they already pay to work around, each with its source link. - Score. Every signal gets an evidence score from 1 (one anonymous complaint) to 5 (proof they already pay for a worse alternative).
- Shape. Signals that cluster around one sellable offer become an idea: a service you can sell by hand this month, the product it can become, five scores and dated kill criteria.
- Test. Each idea runs one experiment at a time, at most 100 € and 14 days: outreach, interviews, a landing page, a pre-sale or a concierge test. It ends in
continue,pivotorkill. - Hand off. An idea that reaches
gois built in a separate repository. This workspace refuses product code.
Ideas are ranked by speed to the first paying customer, not by the size of the market.
Why it holds up
The rules are not just in the prompt. A dependency-free Python engine runs from four Claude Code hooks and checks every record as it is written: ids resolve, scores add up, at most three ideas are in validation, every experiment has a deadline and every finished one a decision. The session brief at start tells you how many days have passed since the last signal and the last contact.
Where to next
| If you want to | Read |
|---|---|
| install it and run the first scouting pass | Getting started |
| understand signals, evidence, ideas and kill criteria | Concepts |
| see how the engine, hooks, rules, agents and skills fit | Architecture |
| keep it going with a small weekly floor | The weekly loop |
| know what it cannot do | Limits |
| see how it compares with idea generators, canvases and listening tools | Compared with other approaches |
| find a quick answer | FAQ |