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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Funnel Analysis | ![]() Growth North Star Metric | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



