Radical Product Canvas
Use it when you need to align your team on a clear product vision and validate your riskiest assumptions before you write a single line of code.
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What is it?
The Radical Product Canvas is a one-page strategic template designed to compress your product vision, customer insights, key metrics, and riskiest assumptions into a single, actionable view.
By blending elements of Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas, it forces you to articulate the core problem you're solving, your unique value proposition, target segments, channels, and the metrics that matter. On one side you map customer jobs, pains, and gains; on the other you lay out your solution hypothesis, revenue streams, and experiment backlog. Underneath, you capture leap-of-faith assumptions and prioritized risks.
It's built for founders, PMs, and indie hackers who need to move fast, make data-informed decisions, and keep every stakeholder rowing in the same direction.
Why it matters?
By collapsing vision, metrics, and riskiest assumptions into one visual tool, the Radical Product Canvas accelerates alignment, slashes wasted work, and focuses your team on validated learning. That clarity drives faster iteration, higher product–market fit, and sustained growth, because you're no longer guessing at what matters to users.
How it works
Growth co-pilot turns your toughest product questions into clear, data-backed recommendations you can act on immediately.
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Gather the Crew
Assemble a cross-functional squad, product, design, growth, and tech, to bring diverse perspectives. Use sticky notes so everyone's voice shows up visually.
2
Define the Vision
In the top section, write a concise mission statement and desired impact. This anchors every decision to your north star.
3
Map Customer Insights
List customer segments, jobs to be done, pains, and gains. Focus on real user interviews or survey data, not assumptions.
4
Craft the Value Proposition
Translate insights into your solution hypothesis. Spell out how your product alleviates pains and amplifies gains.
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Set Key Metrics
Identify one north-star metric and supporting KPIs. Tie each metric back to specific parts of your canvas, no vanity metrics allowed.
6
Surface Assumptions
Underneath your solution, list leap-of-faith assumptions about users, tech feasibility, or business model risks.
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Prioritize Risks
Rank assumptions by impact and uncertainty. High-impact, high-uncertainty items become your first experiments.
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Plan Experiments
For each top risk, define a quick test, prototype, landing page, or A/B experiment, and assign owners and deadlines.
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Review & Iterate
Share the canvas with stakeholders, gather feedback, and update weekly. Treat it as a living document, not a poster.
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Integrate Learnings
After each experiment, record outcomes, update assumptions, and adjust your vision or roadmap accordingly.
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Growth co-pilot turns your toughest product questions into clear, data-backed recommendations you can act on immediately.
You've distilled your product vision, risks, and metrics with the Radical Product Canvas. Now plug your prioritized experiments into CrackGrowth to diagnose hidden friction and turn insights into rapid, data-backed optimizations.