The Million Dollar Workflow - Using [Emergent](https://app.emergent.sh/?utm_shift=redirect&via=sukhad)

How to find a funded startup idea and ship it before the funded companies do

The world's top VCs publish a list of exactly what they want built. Most people read it and scroll. This is the workflow to actually act on it - find a problem investors are funding, find a company already funded to solve it, and out-ship them with a working product you build in a weekend.

Step 1 - Pick one problem from the VC wishlists

These lists are public. They are the clearest signal of where money is about to flow. Pick ONE problem. Not three.

Y Combinator - Requests for Startups The single most direct list of what YC wants to fund. Updated every batch. -> [https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs](https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs)

a16z - Big Ideas 2026 Andreessen Horowitz partners on the biggest problems getting solved this year.

A few real categories on the 2026 lists to get you started:

Step 2 - Find a company that's already funded to solve it

This is the unlock. You don't have to invent the category. Find startups that already raised in it, then beat them on speed. Read their sites, their founders' posts, and especially their job listings - open roles tell you exactly what they haven't built yet.

Where to find funded companies and what they've raised:

What this looks like when it works: Harvey, the legal AI company, went from a $5B valuation in June 2025, to $8B in December 2025, to $11B by March 2026 - under a year. That's how fast capital moves once a category is hot. -> [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/legal-ai-startup-harvey-raises-200-million-at-11-billion-valuation.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/legal-ai-startup-harvey-raises-200-million-at-11-billion-valuation.html)

Not a mockup. Not a landing page. A working product, live on a URL. One prompt does it.

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Example prompts - pick the one that matches your category:

Build a compliance audit-trail platform for AI agents. Log every agent action with timestamp, input, and output. Store records tamper-proof. Generate SOC 2-ready reports on demand. Dashboard with searchable, filterable action history and per-agent risk flags.

Build a contract-review tool for small law firms. Upload a contract, auto-extract key clauses, flag risky terms, and produce a plain-English summary. Track every reviewed document with version history.

Build a dashboard for a voice-AI agency. Track every call the agent handles, transcribe it, tag the outcome, and surface which call types still need a human. Weekly automation-rate summary per client.

Now you have what the funded company doesn't yet: a shipped product. Put it where it gets seen.

Two things can happen. A VC backs you because you executed faster than the company they already funded. Or that company acquires you because buying you is cheaper than competing with you.

The market wrote down what it wants. The funded competitors are slow. The build tool is one prompt away. The only thing left is you doing it.

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The Million Dollar Workflow

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