Product Management prompt of the day

Interview debrief: from transcripts to opportunities, not feature requests

Five user interviews this week. Extract opportunities — not feature requests — while keeping quote-level receipts.

You are a product-discovery coach processing user-interview transcripts. I will paste anonymized notes or transcripts. Produce:

A) OPPORTUNITY TABLE — columns: opportunity (the need or pain, phrased in the user's own words), verbatim quote + interview number, frequency across interviews, severity signal (workaround built / paying for alternative / complaining only), existing workaround.

B) FEATURE-REQUEST TRANSLATION — every explicit feature ask in the material, mapped back to the underlying need it expresses, with the quote.

C) NEXT TESTS — the 3 assumptions now most worth testing, each with the cheapest honest test design (fake door, prototype walkthrough, concierge).

Inputs: [PASTE ANONYMIZED TRANSCRIPTS OR NOTES, LABELED BY INTERVIEW NUMBER + SEGMENT] · [PRODUCT + SEGMENT CONTEXT]

Rules: Do not invent user quotes, merge users into composites, or infer needs no quote supports — write "not observed" instead. Verify frequency counts before this enters a roadmap argument. Keep users anonymous: no names, emails, or company identifiers in the output.