Concept

Product Discovery

The continuous process of figuring out what to build — by talking to customers, testing ideas, and validating assumptions.

Definition

Product discovery is the ongoing process of figuring out what's worth building. Teresa Torres's framing splits it into two tracks: continuous customer interviews to understand opportunities, and rapid experiments to test which solutions work. The goal is to reduce the risk of building something nobody wants, which is the most expensive mistake a product team can make. Strong discovery looks like: weekly customer conversations, opportunity-solution trees, small-scale experiments, and quick iteration. Without it, teams build features based on the loudest opinions in the room. AI agents can help you prep interviews, summarize what you heard, build opportunity trees, and design experiments.

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