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Build an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) to structure product discovery — map a desired outcome to customer opportunities, possible solutions, and experiments. Based on Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits. Use when the team is unclear what to build next, when multiple opportunities compete, or before writing a PRD for a complex feature space.
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What the file says
# Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)
Structures product discovery by connecting a desired outcome → customer opportunities → solutions → experiments. Prevents jumping to solutions before validating the problem space.
Based on Teresa Torres, *Continuous Discovery Habits* (2021).
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## The 4-level structure
```
┌─────────────────────┐
│ DESIRED OUTCOME │ ← single measurable metric
└──────────┬──────────┘
┌───────────────┼────────────────┐
┌──────┴─────┐ ┌──────┴─────┐ ┌──────┴─────┐
│Opportunity │ │Opportunity │ │Opportunity │ ← customer pain/need
│ A │ │ B │ │ C │
└──────┬─────┘ └──────┬─────┘ └────────────┘
┌──────┴───┐ ┌──────┴───┐
┌───┴──┐ ┌───┴──┐ ┌───┴──┐ ┌───┴──┐
│Sol 1 │ │Sol 2 │ │Sol 3 │ │Sol 4 │ ← possible solutions
└───┬──┘ └──────┘ └───┬──┘ └──────┘
┌────┴────┐ ┌───┴────┐
│ Exp 1 │ │ Exp 2 │ ← fast experiments
└─────────┘ └────────┘
```
**Key principles:**
- One desired outcome at a time — don't try to solve everything
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How to install
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Source
avelikiy/great_cto · 105 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
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