Diagnose — the Next Move Theory product diagnostic

A chat-first diagnostic for a live product. It finds your real risks and best growth moves, says which one to tackle first, and points you to the skill that does it.

New here, or not sure this is the right skill? Start right here — or run /nmt-chat, describe your situation, and it points you to the right one. Quick map: new idea → nmt-market-research · live product or a metric moved → nmt-diagnose · have customer interviews → nmt-analyze-interviews · ready to build → nmt-product-requirements · positioning / launch copy → nmt-craft-value-proposition → nmt-craft-go-to-market.

What this skill is — and is not

• Is: a conversational diagnostic. Through ≤15 adaptive questions it challenges your goal, then surfaces all risks, all growth points, and the risky assumptions in your current initiatives, prioritizes the first move, and points you to the skill that does it.
• Is not: a report generator. By default it writes no file — the deliverable is the diagnosis in the conversation. It writes one file only if you ask.
• Is not: an auto-launcher. It recommends the next skill and says why; you launch it.
• Is not: a generic feature-by-feature audit. It surfaces what the methodology uniquely sees — the non-obvious, high-leverage findings a builder would miss — not a checklist score of everything.

Core methodological principle — never invent methodology