OPAL

MBA-grade strategic frameworks cost $50K and six weeks from the large consultancies. That price tag isn't a value moat — it's a credential moat, held in place by the people who know how to run the frameworks and the buyers who don't.

A well-architected LLM pipeline could deliver 80% of that value for 0.001% of the price. The only reason this hadn't been built was structural — the people who understood the frameworks didn't build software, and the people who built software didn't understand the frameworks. That gap was the opportunity.

Built solo with Claude Code over a compressed window. The architecture is the product:

1. Multi-model routing.Claude for reasoning passes, cheaper models for extraction and transforms. Cost discipline baked into the graph.
2. Prompt orchestration across six strategic frameworks.Porter's Five Forces, SWOT, PESTEL, BCG, Ansoff, value chain — each with its own prompt graph and validation path.
3. SEC EDGAR integration for grounding.Filings are the source of truth. No hallucinated financials; every claim traces back to a document.
4. Output validation layer.Structural and factual checks before anything reaches a user. The report either ships clean or it doesn't ship.
5. Freemium funnel.Free preview → paid full report. Unit economics hold at the margin, not just in the pitch deck.

opalai.systems is live. $0.50/report unit economics. Demo users have reported saving hours of research.

Multiple Claude Code Agent Skills shipped to GitHub. Public repos, production use.