Putting it together

You started with forty ideas and a lot of hype. What's the disciplined path from here to something that actually ships?

The scoping method

Discovery and scoping isn't a brainstorm — it's a filter. In five short moves you've turned a noisy backlog into a shortlist, a fit, and a scope tight enough to ship.

• —Find — score every idea on value and feasibility; start where both are high.
• —Map — match the solution shape (rules, predictive, generative, agentic) to the problem.
• —Beware theater — a demo isn't a milestone; scope to production from day one.
• —Ground it — scope against real usage data, not assumptions.
• —Narrow it — give the feature one clear, testable job.

The one habit to keep

If you remember one thing: scope small and grounded, ship a real slice, then widen. Pick the idea where value and feasibility meet, ground it in real usage, narrow it to one job, and ship the smallest version that proves the value. Everything else is theater.