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Access barrier
The right customers are hard to reach across geographies, languages, and seniority levels. Early research gets delayed or skipped.
AI platform for lean customer discovery
Validate what to build before AI helps you build it.
AI made it dramatically easier to ship software. It did not make teams dramatically better at knowing what customers actually need. LeanNav helps teams validate their riskiest assumptions in 1 week, not 3 months.
Problem discovery
Solution fit
Market fit signal
AI amplified the cost of building the wrong thing.
When building was slow, fewer bad bets shipped. Now validation is the bottleneck, and most teams still rely on scattered evidence, rushed interviews, and internal assumptions.
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Skill barrier
Teams can analyze data, but not every team can run non-leading customer interviews. Bad questions quietly corrupt discovery.
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Evidence barrier
Signals live in reviews, tickets, sales calls, and external sources. LeanNav turns scattered clues into a testable assumption.
Three stages of synthetic discovery.
LeanNav embeds Lean Startup logic into the workflow so teams stay focused on the riskiest assumptions before committing build time.
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Problem discovery
Interview 7 synthetic users per segment, grounded in real evidence, to get a validated problem statement before spending on research.
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Solution fit
Put a proposed solution in front of synthetic users before code is written. Surface objections and learn what actually lands.
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Market fit
Compare segments with the Evidence Resonance Score so teams see where demand is real and where it is not.
"LeanNav is assumption-first, evidence-grounded, and designed to upskill teams while they validate."
Built by Julia Armenat, Lean Startup Ambassador and innovation leader, with strategic access to the Lean Startup Co ecosystem.✓
In production
The MVP discovery loop is live on Vercel: Problem -> Synthetic users -> Interview bot -> Solution test -> Market signal.
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Paid pilot
LeanNav has a EUR5K paid pilot and is moving from service-led validation toward managed and platform offerings.
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Partner pipeline
Lean Startup Co provides access to 500+ enterprise innovation teams globally, with active commercial conversations underway.
18+Years of IT and innovation management experience behind the methodology.
7Evidence-backed synthetic personas per segment for early discovery.
500+Innovation teams reachable through the Lean Startup Co partnership.
1 weekTarget validation cycle for riskiest assumptions, instead of months of research delay.
Want to validate a product bet before the sprint starts?
Join the early tester group to try LeanNav with a real product assumption and help shape the next build cycle.