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Product coaching sessions guide teams through context gathering, premise challenges, and mode selection to produce a structured design document. This reframes rough ideas into actionable artifacts with clear problem statements, scope, and success criteria.

Problem framing for early-stage products uses a phase-driven workflow that surfaces pain points and aligns stakeholder scope. It applies structured questions and alternative generation to de-risk decisions before any development begins.

Start a coaching session by initializing the design-doc flow for your project. The workflow orchestrates context gathering, mode selection between startup or builder, and structured questioning to produce a formal design document.

The design doc workflow does not write code. It produces a shareable summary and a formal design artifact stored as a .context/designs entry, specifically formatted for consumption by downstream planning and development skills.

Yes, the workflow supports both contexts through a mode selection phase. It allows you to choose between a startup mode and a builder mode to tailor the product coaching questions and design document output to your specific environment.

This approach is limited to early-stage products and hackathon-style work needing disciplined problem framing. It focuses solely on producing design documents and does not execute code or handle downstream development tasks directly.