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Teresa Torres Discovery Coach

Good product decisions come from well-structured thinking, not heroic insight. Discovery is a habit, not a talent.

Continuous discovery coaching for product teams. Get guidance on building Opportunity Solution Trees, designing interview questions that reveal real behavior, testing assumptions before building, and establishing weekly customer touchpoints. Based on Teresa Torres's proven methodology—delivered conversationally, not as lectures.

By Teresa Torres · Free
Specimen 01 · Live diagnosisTeresa Torres Discovery Coach
Input

“I've been trying to apply Teresa Torres Discovery Coach but I'm not sure where to start.”

Diagnosis
I want to apply Teresa Torres Discovery Coach to my situation.
Full transcript ↓
Calibrated referenceagent-skills.ai
The gap

Build customer-connected products by making discovery a habit, not a phase.

The problem

Building products nobody wants. Shipping features that don't move metrics. Feeling disconnected from customers and driven by stakeholder opinions. Chronic uncertainty about whether you're working on the right thing.

The solution

Conduct interviews that reveal genuine insights. Frame opportunities in customer language. Test assumptions quickly and cheaply. Influence stakeholders with evidence, not opinions.

You bring
  • Your situation or challenge related to Teresa Torres Discovery Coach
You get
  • Product trios who have a clear outcome but can't decide which opportunity to pursue first—get structured comparison and contrast guidance
  • Teams preparing for customer interviews who write hypothetical questions ('Would you use this?') instead of past-experience questions
  • PMs shipping features before testing foundational assumptions—get help designing quick assumption tests
  • Enterprise product teams blocked by access constraints (Sales gatekeeping, Legal review)—discover creative alternatives to direct customer contact
In action

Watch the methodology work.

Three specimens from a single real session: the same situation, unaided and calibrated, the full transcript, and the skill answering live in the channel where the work happens.

Fig.01The same situation, two ways
Specimens A · B
Specimen AVague
Unaided

“Building products nobody wants. Shipping features that don't move metrics. Feeling disconnected from customers and driven by stakeholder opinions. Chronic uncertainty about whether you're working on the right thing.”

×Vague — nothing concrete to act on.
Specimen BCalibrated
With Teresa Torres Discovery Coach

“["Customer quotes appear in your team's decisions and documentation", 'Roadmap discussions focus on outcomes, not just features', 'Features you ship connect to customer opportunities you identified', 'Assumption tests happen before significant build commitments', "You're talking to customers weekly, not quarterly"]. ['You automatically think in terms of outcomes before solutions', 'Interviewing feels natural, not awkward—you know what questions to ask', "You catch yourself when you're falling in”

Specific, grounded, and ends with one clear next step.
Fig.02A real session, unedited
In-app · assistant
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Teresa Torres Discovery Coach
I want to apply Teresa Torres Discovery Coach to my situation. Can you help me get started?
I've been trying to apply Teresa Torres Discovery Coach but I'm not sure where to start.
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What the skill is doing
01Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) coaching to map outcomes, opportunities, and solutions systematicall
02Interview question design that captures past behavior, not hypotheticals
03Assumption prioritization to identify what to test before committing to build
Fig.03The same skill, in the channel you already use
WhatsApp · live
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Message

The same skill, where the work happens.

No new app to learn. The methodology runs over the WhatsApp Business API, so the answer lands as a reply in the thread you’re already in — same rigour, zero context-switch.

Reads the situation, names the pattern, returns one concrete next move.
Delivered in seconds, inside a conversation that already exists.
Specimen · WhatsApp Business API · live
Capabilities

What it does, specifically.

Each capability is a distinct move drawn straight from the source methodology — not a generic assistant guessing.

CapabilityC-01

Core Artifact

Visual framework that maps a desired outcome at the top to customer opportunities (unmet needs, pains, desires) to potential solutions addressing those opportunities, then to assumption tests for those solutions.

CapabilityC-02

Framework Name

Continuous Discovery Habits

CapabilityC-03

Completion Model

Never 'complete'—discovery is continuous. Individual cycles complete when assumptions are sufficiently de-risked to proceed with confidence, but learning never stops.

Tested

Graded before it shipped.

Every skill is scored against independent scenarios for methodology fidelity before it goes live — not vibes, a rubric.

What it produces
OutputD-01

Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)

Visual map from outcome to opportunities to solutions to assumption tests—the core thinking tool of continuous discovery

OutputD-02

Interview Snapshot

One-page visual synthesis of key insights from a single customer interview—designed for quick sharing with trio

OutputD-03

Assumption Map

2x2 matrix plotting assumptions by importance (if wrong) vs evidence strength—identifies leap-of-faith assumptions to test first

The source

Grounded in the original work.

Every answer traces back to a real source and the practitioner who wrote it — not a secondhand summary. Here is the source of record.

Source authorA-01

Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres is the creator of Teresa Torres Discovery Coach.

Status · Inspired by Teresa Torres’s work — not yet claimed. Are you Teresa Torres?
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