Indian startup Rocket is betting that the following massive alternative is the half earlier than vibe coding: having AI assist folks determine what to construct. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product methods.
The startup, based mostly in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched its platform, Rocket 1.0, which connects analysis, product constructing, and aggressive intelligence in a single workflow. The platform generates detailed product technique paperwork — together with pricing, unit economics, and go-to-market suggestions.
As AI-powered coding instruments proliferate — from platforms like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to options similar to Claude Code and Codex — writing code has grow to be considerably simpler and sooner. “Everybody can generate the code now… it has grow to be a commodity. However what to construct is one thing which everyone seems to be lacking,” mentioned Rocket co-founder and CEO Vishal Virani (pictured above), including that “operating a enterprise and simply constructing a codebase are two various things.”
Trendster briefly examined Rocket’s platform forward of its launch and located that it generated product requirement paperwork in PDF format from easy prompts. These paperwork resemble consulting-style stories somewhat than vibe coding instruments or chatbots, which largely deal with options and execution.
Nevertheless, among the evaluation gave the impression to be synthesized from present information — combining identified pricing fashions, consumer habits patterns, and aggressive insights — somewhat than based mostly on independently verifiable info. This suggests customers should have to validate outputs earlier than making enterprise choices. Virani mentioned the platform can supply human help when customers encounter points.
The product may observe opponents, together with adjustments to their web sites and site visitors traits. Rocket attracts on greater than 1,000 information sources for its evaluation, together with Meta’s advert libraries, Similarweb’s API, and its personal crawlers, Virani mentioned.
Rocket’s subscription plans vary from $25 monthly for constructing functions to $250 for technique and analysis capabilities, and as much as $350 for the complete platform, together with aggressive intelligence.
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The $250 plan can generate two to a few “McKinsey-grade” analysis stories alongside product builds, Virani instructed Trendster, positioning its higher-tier choices as a lower-cost different to conventional consulting, which regularly prices 1000’s of {dollars} for comparable technique work.
Rocket raised a $15 million seed spherical in September from Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and Collectively Fund. Since then, the startup says it has grown from 400,000 to over 1.5 million customers throughout 180 international locations. It additionally reported an annualized common income per consumer within the ~$4,000 vary, although it didn’t disclose detailed paying buyer numbers. The startup mentioned it operates at gross margins of over 50%, with 20–30% of its prospects being small- and medium-sized companies.
Rocket has a crew of 57 workers and is headquartered in Surat, with operations in Palo Alto.
