prd-v10-mom-test-interview
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Apply Rob Fitzpatrick's Mom Test discipline to customer interviews during PRD v1.0 Market Adoption. Triggers on requests to interview customers, run discovery calls, validate ideas with users, or when user asks "how do I interview customers?", "Mom Test", "Rob Fitzpatrick", "customer interview", "user research without lies", "talking to humans", "discovery conversation". Outputs CFD-* discovery entries with Mom Test-calibrated confidence.
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