Live classroom instruments for the full DT process — from brief to venture.
Systematically dismantle a design brief before you touch the problem. Finds hidden assumptions, vague constraints, and missing context — before they derail the project.
Push students beyond rephrasing into genuine reframing. Applies 5 lenses — user, metric, constraint, timeframe, stakeholder — to crack open problem statements.
Sort interview quotes by DT signal type: latent need, pain point, workaround behaviour, belief, design opportunity, or noise. Trains students to read data instead of just collecting it.
Students input startup assumptions and receive simultaneous adversarial feedback from 4 AI personas: market skeptic, devil's advocate, cynical customer, and constructive coach.
For founders at inflection points. Diagnoses whether a pivot is driven by market evidence or the desire to escape discomfort. Brutal, structured, honest.
Five named DT failure modes with structured post-mortem analysis. Used at end-of-sprint to help teams identify where their process broke down.