New Data: B2B vs B2C Ideas and the Execution Gap

New Data: B2B vs B2C Ideas and the Execution Gap

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Aron Meystedt
February 02, 2026

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Why B2B Ideas Move Forward More Often Than B2C Ones


We’ve been studying how founders use AI to validate ideas and what happens next. A pattern keeps showing up in the data:

Ideas associated with B2B contexts tend to enter more constrained execution environments and move into action more often than B2C ideas, which typically involve more open-ended execution paths.


Progress Rate by Execution Context


B2B-style execution context
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41–55%

B2C-style execution context
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27%

This pattern appears prior to founders engaging with building or distribution tools.

In practice, B2B and B2C ideas tend to create different execution contexts. 

What We Mean by “Execution Context”

  • The Idea ➡ creates an execution context

  • Execution context ➡ determines how easily action follows

When we analyze ideas, we look at how much of the execution path is already constrained by the environment the founder is operating in.

Some ideas arrive with the buyer, problem, and first action largely implied by that environment, which is common in B2B.

Others require founders to define more fundamentals upfront, like who the user is and how the problem shows up, which is more common in B2C.

The Takeaway for You

This is our data-backed observation (and not necessarily a B2B vs. B2C argument):


Ideas operating in more constrained execution environments tend to move forward more predictably, regardless of category.


Execution often has less to do with idea quality than with how many decisions the environment makes for you.

If you’re early in an idea, it’s worth asking which decisions your environment is already making for you.


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