What problem does it solve? Teams routinely invest months of engineering effort into products nobody wants. This Skill applies Ash Maurya's Running Lean methodology to test demand before writing code, so you validate the riskiest assumptions with customer interviews, Lean Canvases, and Mafia Offers instead of discovering failure after launch. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Lean Canvas & Traction Roadmap: Draft a one-page business model in 20 minutes and work backward from minimum success criteria to define your next 90-day milestone. - Customer Discovery Interviews: Run problem, solution, and MVP interviews using past-behavior questions and commitment-based signals rather than polite hypotheticals. - MVP & Pivot Guidance: Choose the cheapest MVP type (demo, landing page, concierge, Wizard of Oz, single-feature) matched to your riskiest assumption, and decide deliberately between pivoting and persevering. - Use Case: A team wants to build an expense-report SaaS. Instead of speccing six months of software, they run 15 problem interviews, present a Mafia Offer to pre-sell 7 paying pilots, and deliver a concierge MVP before writing any automation code. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to help you fill in a Lean Canvas and identify the riskiest assumption for your new product idea.
