What problem does it solve? Teams often jump to building solutions before validating that a real problem exists, who has it, or whether the proposed solution fits. This Skill structures the earliest phase of product design—turning ambiguous business asks and scattered research into grounded strategic briefs with explicit assumptions, scope boundaries, and testable hypotheses. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five Foundational Questions: Pressure-tests any project against problem validation, audience definition, solution fit, feature validation, and competitive landscape, with decision gates and loop-backs between them. - Design Brief Synthesis: Converts vague requests into structured briefs covering context, gap, opportunity, goals, constraints, guiding principles, assumptions, and phased scope. - Anti-Pattern Detection: Flags strategic failure modes like building for the wrong audience, solving non-problems, feature bloat, competitive blindness, and premature commitment. - Use Case: A stakeholder says "we should build a mobile app for field technicians." Use this Skill to validate the problem severity, define the actual audience segments, question the form factor, map the competitive landscape, and produce a scoped Phase 1 brief before any design work begins. ## Quick Start Ask the strategist to frame a new product idea or ambiguous business request into a structured brief using the five foundational questions.
