Sonar — first-pass triage,
not a pitch generator.

Paste a studio name or URL. Get one verdict and the response it calls for. Sonar decides — it never hands the question back.

Get Sonar

What it does

Reads a prospect.

Studio name, URL, or inbound inquiry, scored against a 107-point fit framework and a live catalyst check.

Returns one verdict.

PURSUE · NURTURE · DECLINE · FLAG. Every run. Not “here are some considerations.”

Drafts the response.

PURSUE gets an outreach email with the warm intro already named. NURTURE gets a watchlist entry with one trigger. DECLINE is brief, professional, done.

The duel

Input

Qualify Northwind Studios: indie action-adventure, no audio team, no publisher deal, no raise announced.

Generic AI

“Northwind Studios looks like a strong fit. They’re an indie action-adventure studio with an active team and a recent title. We recommend reaching out to explore a partnership.”

Sonar

DECLINE.

No funding from any source detected — publisher, raise, revenue, or grant. Can’t hire on normal terms.

Score: 58/107 · funding 0 · audio gap 22 · genre 10

Sonar doesn’t profile studios. It screens them.

Who built it

I got into AI to get out of a spreadsheet. Part of my job at a game-audio studio is scoring prospects by hand — who’s funded, who’s in production, who hasn’t hired audio yet. The rubric, the studios, the contacts were already in the workspace I keep every day. I just had to hand over the judgment I’d already been making.

Built by a game-audio studio’s BD operator — I score these by hand. Sonar is the spreadsheet, escaped.

Get it

github.com/rocleemusic/sonar-operator

01 Create a project in Claude. Enable web search.
02 Add every file in the folder to project knowledge.
03 Set instructions: “Read identity.md and rules.md. You are Sonar. Decide, don’t ask.” Then paste: Qualify [studio name]: [url]

Judge Guide Pitch Deck

Sonar — first-pass triage, not a pitch generator.

Sonar — first-pass triage,
not a pitch generator.