What is customer discovery, and how should an early team begin?
Use conversations and workflow observation to test assumptions about a defined user, problem, buyer and alternative.
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Use conversations and workflow observation to test assumptions about a defined user, problem, buyer and alternative.
Test the user, recurring problem, current workaround, buyer path and value hypothesis before committing to a larger build.
Define the learning question first, then select a minimal experiment that makes a meaningful user outcome observable.
Define a buyer and use case, estimate identifiable purchasing units, and show the assumptions and reachable segment separately.
Look for repeated behavior from a defined segment and understand why people continue, expand, refer or stop.
Map use context, affected people, data, failure modes, evaluation criteria, human oversight and fallbacks before a pilot.
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