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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-35 min | 45-60 min | 1-2 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



