Everything you need to know about CGEN — what it does, how it works, and how to get the most from it.
CGEN is a business intelligence platform built for founders, builders, entrepreneurs, and independent researchers. It gives you structured, AI-powered intelligence on any business, idea, or market — in minutes, not days.
CGEN is built for the person who thinks before they build: someone who wants real intelligence before committing time, money, or resources to a direction.
CGEN runs on three separate intelligence engines, each built for a different stage of the thinking process:
- Intelligence Engine — delivers a full 360° market research report on any business, app, or brand. Identity, market position, financials, public sentiment, and a clear verdict.
- Idea Validator — gives you an honest assessment of your idea. Market fit, originality, timing, risk factors, and an opportunity score.
- Concept Generator — takes a market gap you describe and returns three short, structured business concepts and one full landing page on the concept of your choice, with directions you can act on.
The CGEN Archives is CGEN’s public library of published intelligence reports, validations, and concepts. Every report, validation, or concept that a member chooses to make public is added to the Archives, where it can be read and downloaded as a PDF by anyone.
Visitor-generated reports are published to the Archives automatically.
Yes. Every report, validation, and concept generated by a registered member is saved privately to their personal My Lab and stays there until they choose to publish it. Nothing is shared publicly without your direct action.
Visitors’ reports are published automatically since they have no private account to save to.
Download the CGEN app, available on iPhone and Android. You can start immediately without registering — just open the Intelligence Engine or Idea Validator and run your first report. No account needed for your first generation on each of those two engines.
To access the Concept Generator, save your intelligence privately, and keep your work out of the public Archives, register a free account.
Every report, validation, and concept you generate as a registered member is automatically saved as a private draft to your My Lab the moment it completes. You don’t need to do anything — it’s there waiting for you when you return.
My Lab is your private intelligence workspace. Every report, validation, and concept you generate as a member is saved here as a private draft. You can read your work, make it public to the CGEN Archives, or keep it private indefinitely.
Only you can see your My Lab.
Yes. From My Lab, tap the “Make Public” button on any private report, validation, or concept to publish it to the CGEN Archives. Published content is permanent and cannot be unpublished, so choose carefully. Once public, anyone can read and download it as a PDF.
Visitors can run one free report on the Intelligence Engine and one on the Idea Validator without registering. Those reports are automatically published to the public CGEN Archives.
Subscribers register for free and get a private My Lab, access to all three engines including the Concept Generator, and three welcome reports to use across any engine. After the welcome reports, Subscribers pay only for what they use — no subscription, no monthly fee, no expiry.
Registering is free and gives you three things immediately: your own private My Lab workspace, access to the Concept Generator, and three welcome reports you can use on any engine.
CGEN Pro is for members who use CGEN regularly and want better value per report. Instead of paying $1.50 per report individually, Pro members buy report bundles upfront:
- $15 — 11 reports
- $30 — 22 reports
- $75 — 55 reports
Bundle credits never expire. Use them whenever you need them, across any engine, with no time pressure.
Never. Whether you buy a single report or a full bundle, your credits stay in your account until you use them. There are no monthly resets, no subscription deadlines, and no pressure to generate before a certain date. CGEN works on your schedule.
Open the app, tap the “+” button at the bottom of your My Lab screen, and select “Buy Reports.” You’ll see the available bundles and can choose the one that fits your usage.
Payments are processed securely through Apple on iOS and Google Play on Android.
Report credits are currently purchased through the CGEN app, available on iPhone and Android. Credits are stored on your account and work across both the app and the website — so credits bought in the app are available when you use CGEN on any device.
To purchase credits, download the CGEN app and tap the “+” button in My Lab and select “Buy Reports.”
You can request account deletion at any time. In the app, tap the “+” button in My Lab and select “Delete Account” — this will open our deletion request page.
On the website, visit c93n.com/delete-account. Deleting your account will permanently remove all your private drafts and account data. Published reports in the CGEN Archives will remain as part of the public record.