office-hours

To turn product brainstorming sessions into a structured design doc, use guided office hours to surface demand reality, capture assumptions, and document decisions. This ensures rigorous framing and aligns stakeholders before any build.

Validating startup demand during project planning involves running YC-style office hours in Startup mode to force questions about current status quo and demand reality. This surfaces concrete validation criteria and next steps for proactive planning.

Start a design-thinking brainstorming session for a new product idea by stating your goal, then respond to Builder mode prompts. This guides you through developing raw ideas into a complete design doc with documented risks and next steps.

Yes, you can use office hours for both startup validation and design-thinking brainstorming. The framework applies Startup mode to force questions about demand and status quo, and Builder mode for design-thinking brainstorming to develop ideas into design docs.

A design doc to align stakeholders before building should include captured assumptions, identified risks, documented decisions, and concrete next steps. This structure ensures proactive planning and validation criteria are established during discovery.