idea-intake

To frame a startup idea for customer discovery, you must articulate the core problem, target person, existing workarounds, and timing. This skill guides founders through a structured diagnostic interview to capture exact responses and generate an INTAKE.md document for downstream validation.

The best way to document a startup problem statement is through a disciplined intake process that forces precise thinking. By answering six targeted questions covering problem, person, workaround, timing, advantage, and gravity, you produce an INTAKE.md artifact capturing evidence-backed statements.

To validate market timing and unfair advantage, you evaluate your idea against specific diagnostic criteria. This skill enforces an interview-style process asking "Why Now" and "Your Unfair Advantage" questions, ensuring you surface concrete insights and record exact responses for market validation.

Yes, you can use a structured intake questionnaire for founder onboarding and early-stage ideation. This skill applies a phase-driven process across customer discovery and market validation workflows, shortening cycle times by compelling precise thinking before you pitch or build anything.

Customer discovery requires documenting existing workarounds and problem gravity to understand user behavior and pull. This skill explicitly includes phases for Today's Workaround and The Gravity Test, recording these exact responses in INTAKE.md to inform your downstream market research.

INTAKE.md is a structured artifact capturing exact diagnostic responses about your startup's problem, person, and timing. It serves as the foundation for early-stage market validation workflows, ensuring downstream market research operates on evidence-backed statements rather than vague assumptions.