Living Playbook · 2026-07-14 · Failed test
Quiz to recommendation
Failure mode: looking personalized while being generic. Expertise requires honest branching.
- Hypothesis
- If founders answer stage/constraint questions, personalized system recommendations will raise engagement vs browsing alone.
- Experiment
- Ship a growth quiz that maps answers to systems and companies.
- Spend / time
- 0 paid media · ~8 founder hours
- Result
- First version returned a hardcoded answer and taught us the UX mattered more than the model.
- What we would repeat
- Yes, but only with real constraint mapping — fake personalization destroys trust.