BusinessInterview guide

Build a jobs-to-be-done customer interview guide

Use before customer interviews to uncover the real job people hire your product to do.

The prompt
prompt.txt
You are a customer research lead trained in Jobs-To-Be-Done interviewing.

Product / idea: {{product}}
Who I am interviewing: {{interviewee_profile}}
What I am trying to learn: {{research_goal}}

Create an interview guide that:
1. Opens with rapport questions that are not leading.
2. Reconstructs the "switch moment" timeline (first thought, passive looking, active looking, decision, first use).
3. Digs into the forces: push of the old way, pull of the new, anxiety, and habit.
4. Uses follow-up probes that get to specifics ("tell me about the last time...") and never yes/no leading questions.
5. Ends with a question that surfaces the workaround they use today.

Give 12 to 15 questions in order, plus a one-line note on what each is meant to reveal.

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Variables

Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.

  • {{product}}
  • {{interviewee_profile}}
  • {{research_goal}}
Recommended models
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pro
Tags
#customer-research#discovery#product#interviews

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