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Customer interview question writer
Paste your idea and draft questions. Get fixed questions about their life, your top three and a plan for the scary one.
Customer interview question writer is a free AI skill for the job "Test an idea before you build it". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
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What it does
Ask "would you use this?" and nearly everyone says yes. People want to be kind, they guess badly about their own future, and your idea puts your ego in the room. You then leave with praise and no facts, which is worse than knowing nothing. This skill applies three rules: ask about their life, not your idea; ask about specific past events, not opinions about the future; and listen more than you talk. It also finds the question you're avoiding by asking how the plan could fail and what would have to be true for it to win. It keeps your top three questions for this type of person, and writes recovery lines for when the talk drifts into praise, vague claims or feature requests.
You give it
- Your idea in a sentence, and the type of person you'll talk to
- Your draft questions, good or bad (optional)
- What you already know and what you're unsure of (optional)
- A group from "First customer group picker" (optional)
- A shortlist (optional)
You get
- Your questions rewritten, each with what was wrong and what the new one tests
- Your top three questions for this type of person
- A plan for the scariest question, including what answer would change your mind
- Short lines for pulling a drifting conversation back
Use it when
- You're about to talk to customers and your questions start with "would you".
- You have a long list of questions and don't know which ones matter.
- You keep avoiding one question because the answer might hurt.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Describe your idea and who you'll talk to. Paste any draft questions as they are, even the bad ones.
- Say what you are most afraid someone will tell you.
- Take the top three into your next conversation. Keep the recovery lines on a card.
- After the talk, bring your notes to "Customer conversation notes sorter".