The Lean Lab Toolkit

The question

Could a few small, practical tools help graduate students and postdocs decide what to learn about a market before spending years developing a product?

The Lean Lab is my written guide to that problem. This is an exploration of what a useful software companion might look like.

Possibilities worth testing

• A way to map a research result to potential applications and customers.
• A simple cost model that makes assumptions and uncertainty visible.
• A market-sizing workbench that distinguishes a broad industry from an addressable customer group.
• Prompts for customer discovery and a record of what was actually learned.
• A roadmap that connects commercial questions to the next useful experiment.

Current stage

These are ideas, not released tools or committed deliverables. The next step is to identify one specific problem with researchers, then build and test one small prototype.

Until then, the article is available to read.