Traction Test Planner

Use this skill to design traction tests that create decision-quality evidence. It turns a candidate channel strategy into a scoped experiment with assumptions, metrics, budget, duration, and next-step rules.

Source Traceability

Primary source: Traction, chapters 3 and 4, plus the appendix.

• Chapter 3 defines the three core test questions for middle-ring channels. Authoring notes: converted lines 585-606.
• Chapter 4 distinguishes cheap channel tests from optimization and explains inner-ring testing. Authoring notes: converted lines 675-786.
• The appendix lists phase I test prompts for the 19 traction channels. Authoring notes: converted lines 3323-3372.

See middle-ring-test-prompts.md for paraphrased starter tests by channel.