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Strongest signal
Product Lever looks like your strongest signal.
What this means
Product Lever is the gap between what you sell and what your market wants. It accumulates in two ways. The first is rigidity: part of the product range is kept alive because removing it would be disruptive, even when it's clear that it no longer earns its keep. The cost of maintenance is real; the cost of the conversation required to retire it is higher.
The second is drift: the business is selling broadly the same product or service it was selling 18 months ago despite evidence that what customers need has shifted. This isn't a failure of ambition — it's usually a failure of bandwidth. Adaptation takes headroom, and most growing businesses don't have any to spare.
Product Lever is the category most likely to mask as other problems. Underperformance gets attributed to sales, to marketing, to the team — when the real issue is a product-market fit that has quietly eroded. It's worth ruling out before looking elsewhere.
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