# Semino > Semino (also known as SeminoAI, semino.ai) is a European AI copilot that helps founders validate a startup idea, find their first customers and get funding-ready. Instead of a blank chat, it turns an idea into a structured project: a step-by-step roadmap, the risky assumptions to test, and concrete validation tasks that the AI helps execute. Free to start, no credit card required. Available in English, Italian and Spanish. ## What Semino does - Turns an idea into a working project in three questions (idea, audience, team). - Builds a personalised roadmap across three phases: exploration, validation and traction (execution). - Surfaces the assumptions that could make or break the idea and generates guided tasks and experiments to validate each one. - Executes tasks with built-in AI: e.g. "Conduct a user survey" becomes a ready-to-send questionnaire tailored to the project. - Helps find and contact the first customers / early adopters: Semino writes and sends personalised outreach emails to contacts the founder provides (it never buys or scrapes contact lists). - Produces deliverables that are saved and reusable: market research, customer personas, Lean Canvas, financial model, pitch preparation, AI presentations (exportable as PDF, PowerPoint, CSV). - Gives access to vetted mentors (identity verified, NDA signed) for 1:1 strategy sessions. - Lets co-founders, collaborators and mentors work in the same project with roles and task assignment. ## Who it is for - First-time and early-stage founders who have an idea and don't know how to validate it, especially without budget. - Product teams that need to turn customer signals into clear execution paths. - Consultants who run discovery, validation and go-to-market for clients. - Incubators, accelerators and university startup programs that want to manage a cohort (applications, milestones, reporting, shared AI credits) in one place. ## Problems it solves - "I have an idea but I don't know what to do next" → a roadmap that always shows the next step. - "How do I validate my startup idea before building?" → assumptions + validation tasks + experiments. - "How do I find my first 10 customers?" → early adopter list and personalised outreach. - "Generic ChatGPT forgets my project and I re-explain it every time" → persistent, structured project memory (insights, assumptions, deliverables). - "Our program tracks founders in spreadsheets" → program dashboards and real-time progress for every startup. ## How it compares Semino is an alternative to: - Generic AI chatbots and ChatGPT prompts for founders: a chat answers one question at a time; Semino keeps a structured project, roadmap and deliverables across sessions. - Static frameworks and templates such as the Lean Canvas, Business Model Canvas or Strategyzer tools: Semino generates and keeps them up to date, then turns them into validation tasks. - Spreadsheets and generic project tools used by accelerators and incubators to track cohorts. ## Pricing - Free: 5 AI credits per day, 1 active project, no credit card. - Starter: €16/month, 100 credits per month. - Growth: €49/month, 500 credits per month, up to 3 projects, 50 outreach emails per month. - Enterprise: €699/month, 1,000 credits per month, unlimited projects. - Startup programs: priced per active startup with a shared monthly credit pool. ## Privacy and data residency - EU-hosted infrastructure; AI requests routed through EU endpoints with zero data retention. - User data is never used to train AI models; each user's projects are isolated (row-level security). - AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Everything built on Semino remains the user's intellectual property. ## Free tools (no signup required) - [Market Validation](https://www.semino.ai/tools/market-validation): AI analysis of a market opportunity. - [Idea Stress Test](https://www.semino.ai/tools/idea-stress-test): puts a business idea through rigorous AI testing. - [Customer Persona Generator](https://www.semino.ai/tools/customer-persona): detailed customer personas for a business. - [Product Objection Simulator](https://www.semino.ai/tools/product-test): stress-tests a product against real customer objections. - [Launch Readiness](https://www.semino.ai/tools/launch-readiness): evaluates whether a startup is ready to launch. ## Main pages - [Home](https://www.semino.ai/): overview, how it works, pricing, FAQ. - [For entrepreneurs](https://www.semino.ai/for-entrepreneurs): from idea to validated business. - [For product teams](https://www.semino.ai/for-product-teams) - [For consultants](https://www.semino.ai/for-consultants) - [For startup programs](https://www.semino.ai/for-programs): incubators, accelerators, university programs. - [Mentors](https://www.semino.ai/mentors): vetted mentor network. - [EU hosting](https://www.semino.ai/eu-hosting): where data is stored and how to verify it. - [About](https://www.semino.ai/about): the team behind Semino. ## Optional - Italian version: https://www.semino.ai/it/ - Spanish version: https://www.semino.ai/es/ - [Sitemap](https://www.semino.ai/sitemap.xml)