MAPS Intelligence
Startups only

Pivot Lab

Who to be, and for whom. Before you choose.

A startup has several possible positionings and several markets to try them in. Pivot Lab puts them in a matrix: every hypothesis, adapted to every market — what the customer gets out of it, the proof you need, the objections and the answers, who they compare you with, how well it holds up. The example is the Pivot Lab of MAPS itself.

1 · The hypotheses

Positioning theses,
put to the test.

You write the hypotheses, the AI proposes them, or they come from your material — a pitch, a document. Each one can be improved, varied, or debated with an AI partner that takes its weak points apart: what holds up, what doesn’t, what an investor would ask you. Then you apply.

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Four positioning hypotheses for MAPS, with the AI partner’s objections and the answers

Under each hypothesis, in yellow, what the AI partner doesn’t find convincing; in green, how the thesis responded.

2 · The markets, 3 · the matrix

Every hypothesis,
on every market.

Choose the markets to test — mid-sized agencies, SMBs, companies with international clients, brand managers… — or let them be proposed. Then “Expand row”: the hypothesis is translated for each market, with its own message and its fit. You see right away where a thesis works and where it doesn’t.

The target markets in MAPS’s Pivot Lab
The hypothesis × market matrix, with each cell’s message and fit
Each cell: the message for that market and the fit, from 0 to 100.
Inside a cell

What it takes
to win over that market.

The job the customer needs to get done, the value proposition, what’s in it for them, the arena where they compare you, the proof you need, and the objections with the answer ready.

The detail of a cell: jobs, value proposition, what’s in it for me, arena, proof, objections and answers
And then

Every pivot stays.
And gets compared with the others.

Vary in real time

A chat next to the matrix: “what if we spoke to CFOs?”, “make the thesis more concrete” — and you watch it change.

Versions

Every pivot is saved as a version: you reopen them, and compare them to see what changed from one idea to the next.

In memory

Hypotheses, markets and versions enter the chat’s memory: “which hypothesis did we drop, and why?”.

Toward the value proposition

The hypotheses become directions for the Value Proposition scenarios: from the chosen positioning, what to offer.

Pivot on paper.
Before you pivot in the market.