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Work Proposal

A Diagnosis doesn't end in a fixed package.

It ends in a plan built around what we actually find in your product: sometimes that's one thing to fix, sometimes several at once. That's how we think about every Work Proposal.

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What a Diagnosis actually evaluates

We don't start from three services to pick between. We start from three questions: does your product have a validated foundation? Does the experience it offers convert and retain? Does your team hold, week after week, the product judgment it needs to stop making the same call twice? The three answers rarely land on the same side. Your Work Proposal gets built around what we find in each one, not a fixed menu.

02

When the foundation is missing

Most teams aren't short on ideas. They're short on evidence that the idea in front of them is worth building for the next six months. So they ship it anyway, adoption never takes off, and the debate becomes whether the problem was the feature or the execution. A debate nobody wins, because nobody wrote down what "working" was supposed to mean.

When we find this, we validate that foundation: we turn what your team already senses about the market into a roadmap tested with real users, not assumed in a meeting room, and into a North Star Metric with the input metrics that actually move it.

What it moves: time to a validated roadmap, and the share of your dev budget that goes toward what users actually adopt.

03

When the foundation holds but nobody's tested if the experience converts

A product can have a clear strategy and still lose users along the way, because strategy defines what to build, not whether the way it got built works for the people using it. The problem is rarely on the screen you're looking at: it's friction nobody measured, a flow designed once and never tested against real users again.

When we find this, we redesign those flows with evidence: research with real users, friction points identified and prioritized, and every decision about what converts and why, written down, not just shipped.

What it moves: conversion and retention, measured before and after, not an interface that just looks tidier.

04

When the product is fine but the judgment doesn't hold

Some teams' problem is neither strategy nor design: it's that nobody's thinking about the product with the same seriousness week after week, and that judgment never gets written down anywhere, so it disappears the moment that person leaves or the team outgrows fitting in one head.

When we find this, the work becomes ongoing: recurring strategy and roadmap sessions at a cadence we set together, and a decision log with an owner and a review date that your team actually checks before the next call instead of re-litigating it.

What it moves: how long it takes the team to decide, and how much of what gets decided today ends up reversed six months from now.

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Most of the time, it's a combination

If the foundation isn't validated, there's no reliable way to know who the experience is even being designed for: redesigning flows without that foundation is betting twice instead of once. So when the foundation is missing, the work usually starts there and only then moves into experience. Different case: a team that already validated its foundation and tested its experience, but has nobody holding that judgment over time; there, the work can start as a fixed engagement and turn into an ongoing one. The Diagnosis exists to see which of these is your case before we propose anything.

Let's talk for 25 minutes and go through it together. That's where your Diagnosis comes from, and from there, your Work Proposal.

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