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Value Proposition

Describe an offering — get a Value Proposition Canvas with a fit read and a value-prop statement.

How it works

Corpus-grounded (Osterwalder's Value Proposition Design via the marketing cluster). Builds the customer profile (jobs/pains/gains) and the value map (products & services / pain relievers / gain creators), assesses fit (flagging unaddressed top items), distills a value-proposition statement, and surfaces the riskiest assumptions.

You bring

{ offering, segment?, cluster? }

You get

{ offering_summary, customer_profile{jobs[],pains[],gains[]}, value_map{products_services[],pain_relievers[],gain_creators[]}, fit_assessment, value_proposition_statement, riskiest_assumptions[], grounded_in, provenance }

Use it for

See it work

example output

Offering: a self-serve, regression-based pay-equity audit tool, built for the customer segment of HR leaders at 200–1,000-person companies with no comp analyst.

Value Proposition Canvas — PayLens (self-serve pay-equity audit)

Offering: A self-serve tool that runs a regression-based pay-equity audit from an HR team's existing compensation export — no analyst required. Segment: People/HR leaders at 200–1,000-person companies with no dedicated comp-analytics headcount.

Customer Profile

  • Jobs: Prove pay is fair before it becomes a lawsuit or a headline · answer the CFO's "are we exposed?" · file required pay-data reports on time.
  • Pains: Can't run the statistics in-house · consultant audits cost $30–80k and take weeks · spreadsheets don't control for legitimate factors, so the result isn't defensible.
  • Gains: A board-ready number · confidence the model controlled for role/level/tenure · a re-runnable audit, not a one-off deck.

Value Map

  • Products & services: Upload-and-run audit · controlled regression with explained drivers · remediation-cost estimator.
  • Pain relievers: Removes the need for an analyst or a $50k engagement · controls for legitimate factors so the residual gap is defensible · re-run anytime as comp changes.
  • Gain creators: Plain-language driver breakdown · an audit trail for legal/regulators · flags the specific roles driving the residual gap.

Fit assessment

Strong fit on the top job (a defensible audit without an analyst) and the top pain (cost and turnaround of consultant audits). Unaddressed: the "file required reports on time" job — the tool audits but doesn't yet emit regulatory filing formats. That's the gap to close or message around.

Value proposition statement

For HR leaders who can't staff comp analytics, PayLens turns your existing compensation export into a defensible, board-ready pay-equity audit in an afternoon — the rigor of a consultant engagement, re-runnable anytime, at a fraction of the cost.

Riskiest assumptions

  • That teams will trust a self-serve regression over a named consultant's signature.
  • That the typical comp export carries the fields the model needs (level, tenure, function).

Grounded in: Osterwalder, Value Proposition Design (Strategyzer) — customer profile / value map / fit.

Run it now

Map your value proposition

Run the Value Proposition Canvas: your customer's jobs, pains, and gains mapped against your products, pain relievers, and gain creators — with a fit read and a value-prop statement.

Prefer code? Call it over the API or hand it to your AI agent via MCP — POST /api/bicycle/value-proposition · build_value_proposition. API & agent access →

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