/validate-idea — Idea Validation Workflow

Validate your product ideas rigorously before building to ensure market fit.

Fast, rigorous validation before building.

What It Does

Chains JTBD discovery, assumption testing, and experiment design to validate whether an idea is worth pursuing.

When to Use

  • New product or feature idea (pre-build)
  • Need to test market demand quickly
  • Want structured validation approach
  • Avoiding "build it and they will come" trap

Workflow

  1. Jobs to Be Done — Uncover the real job customers are hiring a solution for (uses jobs-to-be-done skill)

  2. Identify Risky Assumptions — Map Value, Usability, Viability, Feasibility risks (uses trustworthy-experiments skill)

  3. Design Pretotype Experiments — Fast, cheap tests with "skin in the game" (uses trustworthy-experiments skill)

  4. PMF Checkpoint — Plan how you'll measure product-market fit (uses pmf-survey skill)

Usage

/validate-idea [product or feature idea]

Example:

/validate-idea Notion template marketplace for product managers

Output

  • JTBD analysis (When/Motivation/Outcome)
  • Prioritized list of risky assumptions
  • 3-5 pretotype experiments
  • PMF measurement plan

Next Steps After /validate-idea

  • Run top 2-3 experiments
  • If validated: /strategy → /write-prd
  • If invalidated: pivot or kill