Miatz playground

The Job Behind the Ask

Sort real quotes, spot the feature request in disguise.

Browser (JS)Productpm
The Demystify signature

the red-herring lane is the twist — learners reliably sort obvious jobs correctly but get caught by a quote that looks like a job while really being a solution in disguise, and the reveal names the exact tell

How it works

What goes in, what comes out

What it does

Learner sorts 12 anonymized, paraphrased customer quotes into a three-lane board — functional job, emotional job, social job — plus a red-herring lane for quotes that are just feature requests wearing a JTBD costume, against a hidden expert-authored mapping.

You bring

drag each quote card into its lane; submit the board

You get

a scored reveal board showing every miscategorized quote with a one-line explanation of the disguised feature-request pattern the learner missed

You control

quote-set picker (3 seeded sets across different product types); difficulty (obvious quotes vs ambiguous with a red-herring ratio)

Where it's used

free TOFU glossary page for 'Jobs-to-be-Done' + Module 'Prompting for Product Sense' L1 reading-to-lab bridge

Jobs-to-be-Donefunctional/emotional/social jobsstated want vs underlying jobfeature-request laundering

Concepts click when you open the machinery.

Three labs are already live and free — the same hands-on style this playground brings to its module.