Beacon: Idea to venture, powered by agentic AI
Beacon combines McKinsey’s insights with your business context to help teams ideate, test, and launch new ventures with confidence
By embedding proven business-building methodologies into agentic workflows, Beacon enables teams to supercharge idea generation, accelerate validation, and convert the strongest opportunities into real businesses
Spark ideas, build businesses
Beacon brings structure, speed, and evidence to every step of the venturebuilding journey
Ideate
Rapidly explore markets, generate concept ideas, and prioritize the strongest bets for your company, live in every working session.
- Discover value pools
- Prioritize problems to solve
- Generate venture ideas
Validate
Pressure-test ideas early with evidence and business logic—so teams decide with data, not intuition.
- Estimate market size and build business cases
- Interact with synthetic user personas
- Generate landing pages and pitch decks