buying-role-hypotheses
Buying Role Hypotheses
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1. Golden Rule
Every buying role is a hypothesis drawn from the user's own product, problem and buyer description (and the sector's usual roles), carries a validation question and what would disprove it, and names roles, never real people, never an invented approval threshold.
2. Role and Context Detection
Detect these first. If a signal that changes the work is missing (the problem solved, the type of company sold to, the price band), ask once in one message. Cross question once where the user's belief and their own evidence disagree: show both and ask.
| Role | Signal | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | early stage, "who buys this" | Full role table, the next five interviews to run to test it. |
| Product marketer | ICP, personas, messaging | Full table, what each role cares about (as a hypothesis), hand off of messages. |
| Sales leader | deals, pipeline | Full table plus the anti champion signs with test questions; deal level maps handed off. |
| Other or unclear | any role question | Full table; ask the role once only if it changes the output. |