Gu Yan

Helping early product teams state hard problems clearly and make choices they can test.

  1. Product Positioning: Turn Broad Capabilities into a Testable Claim

    Positioning · Strategy · Research

    A two week process clarifies priority users, core situations, and alternatives to form a positioning hypothesis the team and market can test.

  2. Brand Narrative Workshop: A Shared Language for Website, Pitch, and Sales

    Narrative · Positioning · Team Collaboration

    User problems, product turning points, and credible evidence form a narrative reusable across channels.

  3. Growth Experiment Co Creation: Six Weeks to Find Repeatable Actions

    Growth · Strategy · Research

    Design, run, and review a six week experiment around one specific growth bottleneck.

  4. Positioning as a Set of Choices

    Positioning · Strategy

    Useful positioning changes product priorities, sales qualification, and the opportunities a team declines.

  5. Whose Question Should the First Screen Answer?

    Narrative · Positioning

    The first screen chooses an audience, a situation, and a next action that deserve priority.

  6. Three Kinds of Evidence User Interviews Often Miss

    Interviews · Research

    Sequences of events, real costs, and existing alternatives provide stronger evidence than attitudes and wishes alone.

  7. From Feature Lists to a Value Narrative

    Narrative · Team Collaboration

    Organize content around users' decisions so features explain a credible mechanism at the moment readers need them.

  8. A Research Rhythm That Keeps Small Teams Moving

    Research · Team Collaboration · Independent Consulting

    Light recruitment, regular reviews, and an evidence log make research part of weekly work.

  9. Case Study: Refocusing a Collaboration Tool on Its Core Situation

    Positioning · Research · Strategy

    A fictional case uses evidence to refocus an expanding collaboration tool on retaining decisions and their context.

  10. Case Study: Turning Scattered Expertise into Services People Can Buy

    Narrative · Independent Consulting · Positioning

    A fictional case shows how essays, teaching materials, and project experience can form clear service paths and an ongoing content system.

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