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Tactic.

The named, reusable method that a move applies; what works is learned tactic by tactic; the catalogue of the standard mechanisms people use to find product-market fit is rows of this register, each with the phase of the search it serves

Figure 1Tacticspecified
TACTICrow at platform scopenametextforecasts_against_effe…[id]the phase of the search for product-market fit it serves; absent for a tactic of the plays alonephaseenum:find the market…optionalwhat the tactic does, in the field's termsmechanismtextoptionalthe number that says it worked, and its bardeciding_numbertextoptionalthe control read in the same runcontroltextoptionalthe way it goes wrong, and the answerknown_failuretextoptionalempty means every kindapplies_to_kinds_of_of…[KindOfOffering]optionalthe vertical families it fits, by name; empty means every verticalapplies_to_verticals[text]optionalthe method of the methodology library it runs, by name, where one existslibrary_methodtextoptionalKINDOFOFFERINGthrough applies_to_kinds_of_offering
Tactic is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.
kind
row
scope
platform
key
its name
store
postgres
family
strategy

Fields#

fieldtyperequirednote
nametextyes
forecasts_against_effects[id]yes
phaseone of find the market | sculpt the offering | test the fit | build a beachhead | engineer demand | find demand | grow in a market | hedgenothe phase of the search for product-market fit it serves; absent for a tactic of the plays alone
mechanismtextnowhat the tactic does, in the field’s terms
deciding_numbertextnothe number that says it worked, and its bar
controltextnothe control read in the same run
known_failuretextnothe way it goes wrong, and the answer
applies_to_kinds_of_offeringKindOfOfferingnoempty means every kind
applies_to_verticals[text]nothe vertical families it fits, by name; empty means every vertical
library_methodtextnothe method of the methodology library it runs, by name, where one exists

Routes that use it#

No route takes or returns Tactic directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.