Choose a niche to examine
Define a specific buyer, role, and recurring job. Compare candidate niches with the scorecard and keep unknowns visible as questions to investigate.
A PAID PILOT FOR ASPIRING FOUNDERS
Choose a niche with buyer evidence.
The Nichecraft Validation Sprint is guided work on niche choice, buyer interviews, and a willingness-to-pay test—grounded in the existing scorecard and field-guide prompts.
For founders working out which specific buyer and workflow to study.
THE GUIDED WORK
Three questions shape the sprint.
Each step follows the Nichecraft playbook: learn how a buyer works today before deciding what to build.
Talk with buyers
Use the field-guide prompts to ask about recent examples, current workflows, workarounds, and the consequences buyers actually experience.
Test willingness to pay
When a repeated problem and a clear owner emerge, ask about a specific next action at a stated price and record what the buyer does.
THE EXISTING NICHE SCORECARD
Make the comparison about evidence.
The eight criteria help compare learning priorities. The scorecard’s proposed bands are a decision aid, not a market-size forecast.
- 01Repeated pain
- 02Meaningful consequence
- 03Existing workaround
- 04Clear owner and budget path
- 05Buyer access
- 06Room in current alternatives
- 07Shared workflow across buyers
- 08Reason to act soon
PROMPTS FROM THE FIELD GUIDE
“Ask for a recent example and, when appropriate, an artifact such as a blank template or a redacted process document.”
“A compliment is a signal to ask a follow-up. A paid pilot, purchase step, or dated evaluation with the right people is stronger evidence.”Open the full scorecard and prompts
PAID PILOT INQUIRY
Tell us what you want to validate.
Share a little about the niche or idea you are considering. Nichecraft can follow up by email about the paid Validation Sprint.
No price is listed here. Pilot details are discussed after you get in touch.