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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Domain Modeling EventStorming |  UX Research Empathy Mapping |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views. | When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 2-8 h | 30–60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 5-12 | 4-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions | Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop | SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |