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Baseline
The measured value of a metric before a change, used as the point of comparison to show whether the change helped.
Say it to an AI
Draft a one-screen product proposal that leads with a problem statement: who has the pain point, what it costs today with baseline numbers, and why it matters. Only then propose the smallest fix that addresses it.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Q4 product proposal”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A property-management startup's founder posts next quarter's plan in the team chat before briefing a dev agency.
Why: A's 13% lost and 3.2 days are today's measured numbers that the new form can be measured against; B gives nothing to compare with.
More ways experts use it
Write this experiment's hypothesis as a falsifiable statement: the change, the audience, one primary metric with its baseline and target, a guardrail metric, and the threshold and duration at which we call it wrong.
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