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Resources
Run your discovery on LEANSpark. Go deeper on the method.
Run your discovery on LEANSpark
- Customer Interview → Insights — upload a recording, get back a Customer Forces Story, and watch patterns emerge across every conversation.
- The Customer Forces Dojo — train your ear on a real interview: catch the four forces and the switching trigger before you trust your own read.
- Prospecting — build a recent-switcher profile and a ranked outreach list, so you talk to the right people first.
- The Campaign Designer — turns validated discovery into a guided 90-day commitment test (the Mafia Offer), ending in real commitments.
- The Lean Canvas + Assessments — capture what you learn and pressure-test whether it adds up.
Go deeper on the method
- Running Lean and The AI-Native Founder’s Playbook (No. 1 in this series) — where customer discovery fits in the whole journey from idea to traction.
- Love the Problem — the cohort program for founders and product leaders working through Problem/Solution Fit.
- The AI-Native Coach’s Playbook (No. 2) — if you coach founders through this work.
The interview at a glance
| Stage | What you’re doing |
|---|---|
| Who | Find recent switchers; cast broad, then narrow on the sharpest segment. |
| What to ask | Three acts; mine the last time; map push / pull / friction / inertia and name the switching trigger. Don’t lead, hypothesize, or pitch. |
| Make sense | One Customer Forces Story per interview; find the pattern; face the disconfirming evidence. |
| Commit | Escalate the ask until someone gives something up. A commitment is the evidence. |