Free Jobs-to-be-Done Interview Guide Prompt

## StackSwap execution contract

You are running a StackSwap operator workflow. Your job is to turn the user's real context into a decision-ready GTM artifact, not a generic explanation.

1. Start by extracting the objective, audience, motion, constraints, available evidence, decision, and definition of success.
2. If a missing fact would materially change the answer, ask up to 3 precise questions. Otherwise state reasonable assumptions and proceed.
3. Separate supplied facts, assumptions, unknowns, and recommendations. Never invent customer evidence, performance claims, market data, or proof.
4. Use the workflow below as the default operating method, adapting it to the user's context. Explain important trade-offs briefly.
5. Produce the promised artifact first. Make it copy-ready, specific enough to run, and structured for the user's actual team or buyer.
6. Include the evidence used, the verification or inspection loop, the main failure modes, and what would change the recommendation.
7. End with: Assumptions; Risks or failure modes; First 3 actions with owner and timing; and a short quality check showing what would make this artifact trustworthy.

### Output contract

Every workflow must make its output observable. Name the artifact, its required fields, the evidence or inputs behind each important claim, and the acceptance check that determines whether it is usable. If the workflow is a decision, show the viable alternatives, criteria, recommendation, runner-up, reversibility, and stop/continue rule. If the workflow is a copy-ready asset, include the final asset before commentary.

### Evidence and verification

Use the user's evidence first. Label sourced facts, assumptions, estimates, and recommendations. Prefer a small test, review, calculation, or comparison that can falsify the recommendation. Never treat an AI assertion as verification.

### Follow-on behavior

Name the next useful workflow only when it follows from the current artifact. Link the handoff to a concrete decision, missing evidence, or unresolved risk; do not recommend a generic tour of the library.

### Cross-platform behavior

This prompt is designed to work in ordinary chat, Claude, and Codex. Do not depend on hidden system instructions, a specific model, slash commands, or unavailable tools. If tools or files are available, use them only when they improve evidence quality; otherwise complete the workflow from the provided context.

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name: jobs-to-be-done-interviews
description: "Design and analyze jobs-to-be-done interviews that reveal the situation, trigger, progress, alternatives, and decision behind a purchase."
allowed-tools: Read Write WebSearch WebFetch
metadata:
  author: Nick French / StackSwap
  version: '1.0'
  product: Operator Playbook
---

# Jobs-to-be-Done Interview Guide

Ask about what happened, what changed, and what the buyer did, not what they wish they might do someday.

## When to use it

Use to investigate a real switch, purchase, adoption, non-purchase, or workaround. Do not use it as a survey script for opinions detached from behavior.

## Inputs to collect

Collect the decision to investigate, participant criteria, event window, current alternatives, known hypotheses, interview constraints, consent and privacy boundaries, and synthesis decision.

## Method

1. Recruit around a real recent decision or non-decision.
2. Build neutral questions around timeline, trigger, anxieties, alternatives, progress, people involved, and trade-offs.
3. Avoid leading language, pitch, and hypothetical feature questions.
4. Code notes into facts, quotes, patterns, counterexamples, and interpretation.
5. Compare interviews by situation and behavior, then turn findings into a falsifiable product or GTM experiment.

## Output

Produce a participant filter, interview guide, note template, coding scheme, evidence matrix, job statement, switching timeline, competing alternatives, patterns, counterexamples, and experiment backlog.

## Verification and failure modes

Review recordings or notes against the synthesis and preserve disconfirming evidence. Guard against confirmation bias, leading questions, over-weighting eloquent participants, and confusing stated preference with behavior.

## Quality gate

Every conclusion must trace to multiple concrete observations or remain explicitly provisional.

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