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Opportunity solution trees, applied to SEO-GEO Optimizer - Product Thinking

Project · SEO-GEO Optimizer

How I stopped jumping to solutions and mapped the AI-search space into opportunities before writing any code.

When to use

When the team is arguing about solutions before agreeing on the outcome, or when a category is new and the mental model is fuzzy.

How I run it

  1. 01Named the outcome: ‘Sites cited by AI answer engines.’
  2. 02Mapped opportunities beneath it: structured data, answer-shape prose, llms.txt, freshness signals.
  3. 03Branched 2–3 solutions per opportunity, killed the ones that already had good OSS.
  4. 04Ran the riskiest assumption first (‘will devs install a package for this?’) before touching the JSON-LD generator.