Product Market Fit Readiness Gate

A go/no-go gate that determines whether a product has achieved must-have status before the team invests in scaled growth experimentation. Produces a structured verdict with evidence and, for failing products, a concrete remediation protocol.

When to Use

Use this skill at the moment a growth team is deciding whether to shift from product development into high-tempo experimentation. Typical triggers:

• The team is about to hire growth engineers, spin up an ads budget, or launch a referral program
• Experiments are running but results feel inconclusive or disappointing
• Leadership is asking "are we ready to scale?" or "why isn't acquisition converting?"
• A new growth lead has joined and needs a baseline readiness assessment

Do not use as an ongoing monitoring tool once growth is already at scale — at that stage, retention dashboards and North Star metrics replace this gate.

Context & Input Gathering

Begin by reading the product brief. Then check whether survey data and cohort retention data are available.