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Customer DevelopmentValidationLean StartupAI Agent Skill

customer-discovery

Applies Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology to validate hypotheses before building anything.

guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills
149 stars
258 installs
Updated: 2026-02-13

Install Options

Install into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Antigravity with:

$ npx skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills@customer-discovery

Real Work Situation Solved

Discovery interview coming up - what questions actually surface the real problem?

You've got 30 minutes with one customer and a list of assumptions to test - what do you actually ask them?

5-Step Action Framework

  1. 1Write your research goal as one sentence before drafting any question - anything that doesn't trace back to it gets cut.
  2. 2Ask about past behavior, not future intentions - "Tell me about the last time you..." beats "Would you use a feature that...".
  3. 3Avoid questions that can be answered with a nod - "Is pricing a problem?" gets a polite yes; "Walk me through your last renewal decision" gets a real answer.
  4. 4Never pitch the solution mid-interview - if the customer asks what you're building, deflect back to their problem until the interview ends.
  5. 5After each answer, ask one follow-up "why" or "what happened next" before moving on - the first answer is rarely the real one.
Before

"Would you use a feature that let you export this to Excel?"

After

"Walk me through the last time you needed this data outside the app - what did you do, and what took the longest?"

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# Customer Discovery Skill

Walk through Steve Blank's Customer Development steps to test problem-solution fit with real customers before writing a line of code.