SM Small Proof Studio
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Customer Discovery

A customer interview is useful when it reveals how people behave and decide, not when it lets a founder perform the pitch at conversational volume. These guides ask about real recent events, preserve uncertainty, and prevent compliments from being entered into the revenue forecast.

Customer Discovery

Run a Customer Interview Without Leading

Run a non-leading customer interview by defining one decision, recruiting people with recent relevant experience, and asking them to reconstruct a…

4 min read · 2026-07-19