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01Can they see the value before they commit?
Test: Can a stranger explain it back to you after ten seconds?
Four questions. Pick the one answer that sounds most like your product. Your four answers multiply — 1 to 625 — so one weak gate caps the whole score.
When everyone can build it, working is no longer the point. Minimum Viable Value is the smallest complete outcome whose benefit is obvious, believable and fast enough to be worth a stranger's attention. Four gates. Score each one honestly.
Can they see the value before they commit?
Test: Can a stranger explain it back to you after ten seconds?
Do they believe it applies to them specifically?
Test: Is your proof made of their material, or yours?
Does the payoff arrive before attention expires?
Test: How long from first click to a result they'd mention to a colleague?
Is it a whole outcome, not a fragment?
Test: After using it, do they finish the job somewhere else?
Score each gate 1–5. The four numbers multiply, not add. The range is 1 to 625.