Evidence board and ideas guide

The Canvas view

The Evidence board has four views: Cards, By complaint, Timeline and Canvas. Canvas is a pan and zoom surface for the problem, evidence, ideas, assumptions and decision. See the Ideation canvas guide.

The Research tab

Pick a source, fill in the form and press Run. Results land on the Evidence board, and you can attach them to an idea while you run. Recent research lists each job with its progress and a Stop button. Reddit needs Clipper paired. The sources are in Research sources.

The Evidence board

Everything collected for the project is here: Reddit threads, pages you clipped, notes, pinned keywords and saved reviews. Search it, filter by kind or source, and use the counts by kind to see what you have. Reviews, Suggestions and Rankings each have their own list.

• Open original goes to the source page.
• Attach to idea links the item to an idea. Remove from idea unlinks it.
• Ask the chat about this adds the item to your chat as a chip.
• Delete removes it for good. Complaint groups that already counted it keep their counts.
• Items with instruction-like wording show a flag. They are shown as plain text only.

Reviews, suggestions and rankings

• Reviews: filter by app and by star rating, or show low rated only. Press Save as evidence to keep one.
• Suggestions: the autocomplete lists you collected, by source: Google, YouTube, Amazon and Google Play.
• Rankings: the store ranking snapshots from App Store and Google Play searches. Open one to see the ranked apps.

Complaints

Reddit threads, clipped pages and low rated reviews count as complaints. Press Find complaints and your AI groups them by the underlying problem. The app then counts each group itself and ranks them, so the numbers are real counts, not the AI's guesses. Choose the highest star rating to include, and run for the whole project or one idea.

• Each group shows its rank, its count and share, quotes and sources.
• See all opens every item in the group.
• Make idea turns a group into an idea card. The label becomes the title and the summary becomes the problem.
• The banner shows how many items the run was based on and how many did not fit a group.

Ideas

An idea card has a title, a status (New, Researching, Validated or Dropped) and four fields: Problem, Demand proxy, Competition and Wedge. Evidence links show everything attached. An existing competitor is validation, so use Competition to note what they miss and whether their users can be won.

Your AI can read and write the same cards through the idea tools. The built-in Validate an idea and Evidence board write-up skills use them. See Skills.

A simple flow

1. 1

   Collect

   Ask your AI or use the Research tab to pull Reddit threads, app reviews, trends and suggestions.

2. 2

   Group

   Press Find complaints on the Complaints tab.

3. 3

   Decide

   Make an idea from the top group. Fill in demand proxy, competition and wedge.

4. 4

   Write up

   Run the Evidence board write-up skill for a short, sourced summary.