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Test the offer before you scale it.

Turn assumptions into real customer conversations, small experiments, and an evidence-based decision.

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STEP 1 OF 5

Write falsifiable assumptions

Make the riskiest beliefs explicit before collecting reactions.

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Resources for this step

Choose what fits. Alternative platforms are choices, not extra requirements. Use your own authorized accounts.

Structure customer discovery, prioritization, and product reasoning. Outputs still need evidence from real customers.

Cost
Review repository noncommercial and commercial-use terms
Setup
Compatible agent; license fit for intended use
Tracking toolGoogle Sheets ↗

Maintain a simple experiment log, data dictionary, cost model, or operations report.

Cost
Personal and paid workspace options
Setup
Account; use controlled sharing
WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE

An assumption log with a decision rule.

TAKE THE BRIEF INTO YOUR ASSISTANT

Start with a better brief.

Fill in the brackets for your selected approach: Validate the problem.

Read the starter prompt

Help validate [offer] for [customer]. Current evidence: [notes]. Identify risky assumptions, draft neutral discovery questions, and design a small experiment with success criteria and a review date. Record observations separately from interpretation. Do not invent customer quotes, demand, or proof. Start with the smallest useful version and keep additional services optional. Recommend only relevant tools and verify supported skills or plugins before using them. Explain costs and permissions. Record checks actually performed and unresolved issues. Ask for approval before publishing, sending messages, connecting live accounts, or spending money.

Checks record your progress; they do not execute tools or verify business results. Official resources reviewed November 2026. Check current pricing, license terms, and host compatibility. These guides have not been tested as end-to-end business or integration workflows.

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WORK ON YOUR OWN EXAMPLE

Stress-test your offer

Work through the weak points before committing to delivery. Keep evidence separate from assumptions; unknowns are useful findings.

Open the offer stress-test worksheet

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Who has the problem?

Name a specific customer and situation, supported by interviews or records.

Why choose this offer?

Compare current alternatives and explain a difference you can actually deliver.

Which claims have evidence?

List each important claim, source URL or observation, date, and whether it is observed, calculated, inferred, or unknown.

What exactly will you deliver?

Write deliverables, exclusions, customer inputs, acceptance criteria, and what is outside your control.

Can you access the required systems?

Confirm APIs, partner approval, plan restrictions, permissions, and unresolved technical dependencies.

Where could delivery become too costly?

Separate setup hours, ongoing work, software usage, support, and capacity. Show assumptions rather than promising a margin.

What could stop the buyer or the project?

Record likely objections, required specialist reviews, and what would change your decision.

What is the smallest honest test?

Define pilot scope, a measurable signal, budget, review date, and a continue/revise/stop rule.

0 blocked · 8 items need assessment or follow-up. These are your own labels, not an automated verdict.

These notes support a decision; they do not prove demand, delivery readiness, compliance, or profitability. Exports are created locally; this worksheet does not send notes to an AI or external service.

GO DEEPER

More learning resources.

Expand a topic for courses, documentation, and tools from the supplied learning curriculum. Links already recommended in the guide above are omitted.

Start here: learn to interview without leading3 resources

Opinions about your idea are cheap. Past behavior is the evidence.

siteThe Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick)Details +

The standard short handbook on customer conversations. The book and course are paid; the site links to free translated editions and guides.

Cost / access
paid
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
videoHow To Talk To Users (Y Combinator Startup School)Details +

YC's free lecture on who to talk to and how to run the interview.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
videoEric Migicovsky: How to Talk to Users (Y Combinator)Details +

Second YC talk on the same skill.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
Run a customer discovery plan2 resources

Interview 15 to 30 people, stop when answers repeat, and set your pass bar before any test.

articleHow to validate a startup idea before you build (Cut the SaaS)Details +

Five-step plan: interview, stop at repeats, set a threshold, run a cheap demand test, build only after strangers commit. Also usable as a checklist. Vendor-style blog.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
siteSteve Blank's blog (Customer Development)Details +

Origin of 'get out of the building'. Browse the Customer Development categories for the method.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
Check search demand for free3 resources

Search volume and trend direction tell you whether people already look for this.

toolGoogle TrendsDetails +

Free look at what people search for and how interest changes over time.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
docsUnderstanding Google Trends dataDetails +

Explains it is normalized sample data, good for comparing two terms rather than counting searches.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
toolGoogle Keyword PlannerDetails +

Free keyword and volume estimates; needs a Google Ads account but the page says no spend is required.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
Read communities and competitor reviews by hand3 resources

Customers describe their problems in their own words on forums and in reviews of the alternatives.

articleHow to find customer pain points on Reddit (Redship)Details +

Founder playbook: pick subreddits, search complaint phrases, score intensity. Read manually and follow Reddit's rules;

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
articleReview mining with a Jobs-to-be-Done lens (Wynter)Details +

How to read competitor and category reviews for goals, current solutions and exact customer wording.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
toolAlsoAskedDetails +

Shows the 'People also ask' questions Google surfaces, grouped by intent. Free tier not confirmed.

Cost / access
unknown
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
Run a demand test where people commit3 resources

A click is curiosity. A pre-order, deposit or booked call is evidence.

articleSmoke tests and fake door tests (Koji)Details +

How to test demand before you build, with ethics notes and a follow-up interview template. Vendor blog.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
toolCarrdDetails +

Build a one-page test site fast. Free plan includes three sites.

Cost / access
free tier
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
toolTallyDetails +

Free form builder for waitlists and booking requests with unlimited forms and responses.

Cost / access
free tier
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
Use a test card and a pass or fail rule2 resources

Write the belief, the test, the metric and the pass bar before you run it.

templateValidate your ideas with the Test Card (Strategyzer)Details +

Free one-page card: what we believe, how we test it, what we measure, what counts as success.

Cost / access
free · Service usage, hosting, or model access may be separate.
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.
toolGoogle Search ConsoleDetails +

Once your test page is live, shows which searches bring people to it. The page did not state cost.

Cost / access
unknown
Setup
Follow the linked provider’s current instructions; check account and runtime requirements.

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