RecommendedA
Design-partner cohort
Twelve teams, weekly review, guided setup, and one shared success measure.
- Learning
- High
- Support load
- Bounded
- Public momentum
- Delayed 3 weeks
Market launch / recommendation
Launch with twelve design partners before opening the waitlist.
A focused six-week cohort gives the team enough real usage to harden onboarding without delaying the public story.
Approve the design-partner launch and hold the public waitlist until the cohort completes week three.
Approve / Revise01
Why now
The product clears the core workflow, but setup still depends on three manual interventions. Broad acquisition would create support load before we know which intervention matters.
- 18 / 20task-based tests completed the primary workflow
- 06 minmedian time to the first useful result
- 03manual setup steps still owned by the product team
03
What approval unlocks
- Week 01Recruit and baseline
Confirm twelve partners, goals, current workflow, and success measures.
- Week 02Observe first value
Record setup friction, time to outcome, and every manual intervention.
- Week 03Make the public call
Open the waitlist if ten teams reach the success event without founder support.