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Evaluate an AI product idea across outcomes, hypotheses, risks, and positioning. Use when deciding whether an AI solution deserves investment or recommendation.

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Recommendation Canvas Template

Use this template to produce a complete AI recommendation canvas.

Provenance

Adapted from prompts/recommendation-canvas-template.md in the https://github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-prompts repo.

Template

## AI Recommendation Canvas

### Product Name
- [Name of the AI product or service]

### Business Outcome
- [Direction][Metric][Outcome][Context][Acceptance criteria]

### Product Outcome
- [Direction][Metric][Outcome][Context][Acceptance criteria]

### The Problem Statement
- [2-3 sentence narrative from the persona's POV]

### Solution Hypothesis
**If we** [action or solution]
**for** [target persona]
**Then we will** [desirable outcome]

**Tiny Acts of Discovery:**
- [Experiment 1]
- [Experiment 2]
- [Add more as needed]

**Proof-of-Life:**
Within [timeframe], we observe:
- [Quantitative outcome]
- [Qualitative outcome]

### Positioning Statement
**For** [target customer/persona]
**that need** [underserved need]
[product name]
**is a** [product category]
**that** [benefit statement]

**Unlike** [primary competitor or alternative]
[product name]
**provides** [unique differentiation]

### Assumptions & Unknowns
- **[Assumption/Unknown 1]** - [Description]
- **[Assumption/Unknown 2]** - [Description]

### Issues/Risks to Investigate (PESTEL)
- **Political:** [Risk]
- **Economic:** [Risk]
- **Social:** [Risk]
- **Technological:** [Risk]
- **Environmental:** [Risk]
- **Legal:** [Risk]

### Issues/Risks to Monitor (PESTEL)
- **Political:** [Risk]
- **Economic:** [Risk]
- **Social:** [Risk]
- **Technological:** [Risk]
- **Environmental:** [Risk]
- **Legal:** [Risk]

### Value Justification
**Is this Valuable?** [Absolutely yes / Yes with caveats / No]

**Solution Justification:**
1. **[Justification 1]** - [Description]
2. **[Justification 2]** - [Description]

### Success Metrics
1. **[Metric 1]** - [Description]
2. **[Metric 2]** - [Description]
3. **[Metric 3]** - [Description]

### What's Next
1. **[Next step 1]** - [Description]
2. **[Next step 2]** - [Description]
3. **[Next step 3]** - [Description]

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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Provenance

Signed by skilld at b68bf96. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

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Activeupdated 2 months ago

Capability

argument-hint
[AI product idea]
type
component
theme
validation-experiments
Other metadata
intent
Evaluate and propose AI product solutions using a structured canvas that assesses business outcomes, customer outcomes, problem framing, solution hypotheses, positioning, risks, and value justification. Use this to build a comprehensive, defensible recommendation for stakeholders and decision-makers—especially when proposing AI-powered features or products that carry higher uncertainty and risk.
best_for
[
  "Deciding whether an AI product idea deserves real investment",
  "Surfacing the risks and hypotheses behind an AI feature request",
  "Comparing AI solution options on outcomes rather than novelty"
]
scenarios
[
  "Leadership wants an AI feature and I need to evaluate whether it's worth building",
  "I have three AI solution options and need to compare them on outcomes and risk"
]
estimated_time
30-45 min

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