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Found 11 Skills
Use when "product strategy", "OKR planning", "product vision", "market positioning", or asking about "competitive analysis", "product-market fit", "go-to-market strategy", "product roadmap"
Help users decide when and how to pivot their startup. Use when someone is questioning their current direction, seeing poor traction, considering a major strategy change, or stuck in the pre-PMF stage.
Applies Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology from The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Use when a startup is searching for customers and a business model before scaling. Covers the four-step process: Customer Discovery (find if anyone wants what you're building), Customer Validation (prove you can sell it repeatably), Customer Creation (drive demand matched to Market Type), and Company Building (transition from learning org to execution org). Triggers include 'we built it but no one's buying', 'should we hire salespeople yet', 'how do we find our first customers', 'we're burning cash and sales aren't scaling', 'are we in a new or existing market', 'when do we scale'. NOT for companies that have already crossed the chasm into mainstream (use Crossing the Chasm instead), not for optimizing an existing sales funnel, not for product development methodology (this is its companion, not replacement).
Understand why customers really buy by uncovering the "job" they're hiring your product to do Use when: **Understanding customer motivation** beyond demographics and feature requests; **Finding product-market fit** by identifying the real progress customers seek; **Discovering why customers switch** (or don't) between solutions; **Identifying true competition** that isn't obvious from industry categories; **Creating marketing messages** that resonate with real customer struggles
Product leadership for scaling companies. Product vision, portfolio strategy, product-market fit, and product org design. Use when setting product vision, managing a product portfolio, measuring PMF, designing product teams, prioritizing at the portfolio level, reporting to the board on product, or when user mentions CPO, product strategy, product-market fit, product organization, portfolio prioritization, or roadmap strategy.
Use when asked to "PMF survey", "measure product-market fit", "40% rule", "Sean Ellis test", "Rahul Vohra method", or "how disappointed would you be". Helps quantify product-market fit and systematically improve it. The PMF Survey framework (created by Sean Ellis, popularized by Rahul Vohra at Superhuman) measures how disappointed users would be without your product and turns that data into a roadmap.
Applies Eric Ries's Lean Startup methodology for building products under extreme uncertainty. Use when iterating toward product/market fit, designing MVPs, deciding whether to pivot or persevere, setting up actionable metrics, or accelerating the Build-Measure-Learn loop. Triggers include 'how do we test this idea fast', 'what should our MVP look like', 'our metrics look good but we're not growing', 'should we pivot', 'we're building features no one uses', 'how do we measure validated learning', 'vanity metrics vs real metrics', 'how to do innovation accounting'. NOT for companies with proven product/market fit scaling a known playbook (use Crossing the Chasm), not for determining Market Type (use Four Steps), not for sales methodology (use SPIN Selling), not for pricing strategy (use Monetizing Innovation).
Apply startup execution wisdom to product, strategy, and business decisions. Use for feature prioritization, build-vs-buy decisions, go-to-market planning, pricing, hiring, scope/timeline reality checks, or when evaluating whether an idea has product-market fit potential.
Use when asked to "jobs to be done", "JTBD", "why customers churn", "prep for customer interviews", "hire and fire products", or "find real competitors". Helps discover unmet needs and the context behind purchasing decisions. The Jobs to be Done framework (created by Clayton Christensen and Bob Moesta) explains why customers hire and fire products.
Build your PMF context layer - reference files that capture the "WHY" behind your product. Use when user mentions "PMF", "product market fit", "define my PMF context", "PMF context", "ICP", "value prop", "aha moments", or asks about understanding customers or market positioning.
Dual-mode meta-skill for (A) pre-plan field validation of business ideas through Customer Development and (B) post-plan auditing of market claims against evidence. Integrates Customer Development methodology (Blank/Dorf), rapid validation (Kagan), customer discovery steps (Cooper/Vlaskovits), and empathy-based research (Alam).