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Run your offer design on LEANSpark. Go deeper on the method.
Design your offer on LEANSpark
- Assemble the evidence — job requirements extracted from your real interviews: hiring criteria, firing criteria, and the tolerated tradeoffs that hide your delighter.
- Mix the cocktail — an evidence-backed feature mix, with every guess flagged as a guess.
- Draft the five Ps — Problem and Promise written from prospect quotes, Proof matched to your stage, Product stripped to the minimum mechanism, Price anchored to the value.
- Check the integration — the four checks and the aloud-read, so the page tells one story before you pitch it.
- Hand off to the pitch — the finished 5P offer feeds straight into the Mafia Offer pitch generator from How to Sell Before You Build.
Design your offer at leanspark.ai.
Go deeper on the method
- How to Talk to Customers (No. 3 in this series) — the interviews this playbook spends. Do that one first.
- How to Sell Before You Build (No. 5 in this series) — pitching the offer you just designed, and counting who commits.
- Running Lean and The AI-Native Founder’s Playbook (No. 1) — where Solution Design sits in the journey from idea to traction.
- The Demand Validation Playbook — the full course track behind this playbook.
The offer at a glance
| P | What it is |
|---|---|
| Problem | Their situation, in their words, better than they can say it. 80–120 words. |
| Promise | The after-state: specific, measurable, time-bounded, resonant. 30–60 words. |
| Proof | Why it’s true for them, from you — mechanism first, pilots as they land. |
| Product | The minimum mechanism the Promise requires. Features on a leash. |
| Price | A fraction of the value, one clear anchor, uncomfortable to say aloud. |