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Distinguish fixed-rule automation, predictive machine learning, and generative AI by matching each approach to suitable tasks and outputs.

Identify workflow steps for which generative AI is useful, including classification, extraction, summarization, and drafting.

Diagram how user input, instructions, context, model output, and human review interact in a generative-AI workflow.

Recognize common AI limitations, including hallucinations, inconsistent outputs, context limits, bias, and data exposure.

Decompose a simple AI product into its interface, workflow logic, model, data storage, and human-control components.

Screen candidate product ideas for accuracy, liability, data-access, operating-cost, and human-review requirements that could make a zero-budget prototype unsuitable.

Compile a shortlist of customer groups reachable through legitimate public directories, forums, marketplaces, or professional communities without paid advertising.

Identify repetitive business workflows that consume measurable time, delay revenue, or create costly errors.

Distinguish evidence of an urgent customer problem from general interest in a novel AI feature.

Write a testable problem hypothesis naming the customer, triggering situation, current workaround, and estimated cost of the problem.

Estimate the rough monthly value of solving a workflow problem from its frequency, time cost, and error cost.

Score candidate market-problem pairs by severity, reachability, willingness to pay, AI suitability, current alternatives, and competitive pressure, then select two for research.

Write a neutral interview guide that asks about past behavior, specific incidents, current workarounds, and costs rather than inviting compliments about an idea.

Build an initial prospect list from legitimate public sources without buying contact data or collecting unnecessary personal information.

Write a concise interview request that states its purpose, respects consent and platform rules, and avoids deceptive or spam-like claims.

Conduct and document one 15–30 minute problem interview while minimizing leading questions and premature pitching.

Organize interview notes into observed facts, reported behavior, assumptions, triggers, workarounds, costs, and desired outcomes.

Compare evidence across completed interviews and use the resulting patterns and contradictions to revise or reject a problem hypothesis.

Define an initial ideal-customer profile using observable characteristics, workflow conditions, and buying context.

Rank the researched problems by frequency, severity, urgency, existing spending, and strength of interview evidence, then select one to test.

Express the selected offer as a job, trigger, desired outcome, current alternative, and one-sentence value proposition without unsupported AI claims.

Design a manual or concierge-style test that delivers the proposed outcome before a complete product exists.

Define a test price or price range based on customer value, current alternatives, and expected delivery costs.

Ask a prospective customer for a concrete commitment such as data, time, a pilot, a deposit, or a purchase, and record the response without applying pressure.

Apply the predefined evidence thresholds to decide whether to build, narrow the offer, or return to discovery.

Map the product's happy-path workflow from user input to useful output and label each step as deterministic, generative-AI, or human-reviewed.

Define a narrow MVP boundary by separating behavior required to deliver the validated outcome from later enhancements.

Compare and select currently available free-tier interface, automation, storage, and model-access options by verifying usage limits, privacy controls, exportability, and whether a payment card is required; retain a manual fallback if no suitable AI tier exists.

Define the minimum data fields required by the workflow while excluding unnecessary personal or confidential information.

Sketch the input, processing, review, result, and follow-up states as a low-fidelity wireframe.

Write measurable acceptance criteria for the MVP's core customer outcome.

Create a visual input form that captures only the information required by the workflow.

Configure a simple data table to store permitted inputs, workflow statuses, outputs, and feedback.

Write a task-specific AI instruction containing the objective, relevant context, constraints, and output requirements.

Add representative examples and a predictable output structure when they improve consistency or support later workflow steps.

Connect input, processing, human review, and output steps with a visual automation builder or equivalent free workflow tool.

Add fallback handling for missing input, model errors, usage limits, and unusable output.

Run a complete representative user scenario through the workflow and record every failure point.

Create a compact test set containing normal, ambiguous, incomplete, edge-case, and adversarial inputs relevant to the selected workflow.

Define a scoring rubric for factuality, relevance, completeness, format compliance, and customer usefulness.

Evaluate MVP outputs against the rubric and summarize recurring failure patterns.

Classify a failed case as primarily caused by poor input, unclear instructions, model limitations, workflow logic, or an unsuitable product requirement.

Run a controlled instruction revision that changes one factor and compare its results with the baseline.

Insert human approval where an incorrect output could materially harm a customer or trigger an irreversible action.

Define collection, retention, access, and deletion rules for personal, confidential, regulated, or copyright-restricted information.

Configure and test practical safeguards that separate untrusted user text from system instructions, constrain obvious prompt-injection or unsafe requests, and route uncertain cases to refusal or human review.

Write a landing-page headline and supporting copy centered on the validated customer outcome rather than generic AI terminology.

Create a simple first-use route that takes a new user directly to the product's core interaction.

Configure and test sign-in, page visibility, and record-level permissions so one test user cannot access another user's data.

Draft plain-language disclosures covering AI involvement, user responsibilities, data handling, and known product limitations.

Add a no-cost method for recording core usage events, output ratings, and qualitative feedback.

Publish the MVP at a shareable address using a currently available free deployment tier.

Conduct one observed usability test without coaching the participant, then classify the findings and prioritize launch-blocking defects over optional feature requests.

Extend the discovery list into a focused sales list whose entries match the evidence-based ideal-customer profile.

Write a personalized outreach message that connects an observed workflow problem to a low-friction next step while respecting opt-outs, platform rules, and applicable outreach requirements.

Send a small outreach batch and log deliveries, replies, opt-outs, and next actions.

Prepare a short product demonstration organized around the customer's current process and desired result.

Run a discovery-led demonstration that verifies the problem and success criteria before presenting the product.

Respond to common objections by clarifying evidence, fit, limitations, and risk rather than using pressure or unsupported promises.

Propose a time-bounded pilot with a named user, outcome, success measure, price, review date, and no-upfront-cost invoice or payment path.

Maintain a simple pipeline of prospects, replies, meetings, pilots, payments, and scheduled follow-ups.

Calculate outreach response, meeting, activation, pilot, and paid-conversion rates from collected data.

Prioritize one product change using customer impact, evidence strength, implementation effort, and strategic fit.

Estimate gross margin per customer using expected model, automation, support, hosting, and payment-processing costs.

Use a simple scenario to compare revenue-multiple and profit-based valuations and show how ownership dilution and liquidity constraints affect a founder's paper wealth.

Determine whether any customer-acquisition approach shows early evidence of being repeatable rather than relying on isolated successes.

Make a continue, narrow, pivot, or stop decision using the venture's predefined evidence thresholds.

Create a 90-day plan with numerical targets for customer discovery, product improvement, revenue, acquisition, and spending.