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Criterion	Decision Making Assumption Surfacing	Product Discovery Concierge MVP	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping
Purposedifferent	Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.	When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	45-90 min	1-4 Wochen	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min
Participantsdifferent	2-8	3-10 Kunden	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan	Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap	AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery	MVPValidationServiceDiscovery	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation

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