Hands-on · Workshop 08

Experiment Design Workshop

A big bet is a slow, expensive way to discover you were wrong. A small experiment is a cheap way to find out this week. This workshop runs one idea through a repeatable loop: frame it as a falsifiable hypothesis, decide whether it is even testable, set the one metric that confirms it and the guardrail that protects you, name the riskiest assumption and the smallest test of it, mark where a human reads the result, and write the decision rule before you start. You leave with a one-page experiment card and a go or no-go you wrote in advance, so the result decides, not the room.

Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Level: All levels
Tools: An idea you want to test, a doc or card, and an AI assistant to pressure-test your thinking
Outcome: A repeatable way to turn one idea into an experiment you could run next week, and a decision you set before the result

You will leave with

A one-page Experiment Brief you fill in before you run anything
A Hypothesis and Metric Card with the success metric, the guardrail, and the decision rule
A Riskiest-Assumption and Smallest-Test worksheet
A Read-the-Result Checklist that names who reads it and when
A pack of reusable prompts that pressure-test an experiment
The Experiment Loop, hypothesis to decision, on one line