About this Event
This hands-on, 2-hour workshop is part of Invest Ottawa’s Startup Fundamentals series, designed to help early-stage founders move from idea to evidence.
If you’ve completed Build Your Lean Canvas and Customer Discovery, this session is your next step: learning how to use AI to quickly test your assumptions and bring your idea to life.
Who This Is For
Idea-stage founders (especially first-time or non-technical)
Founders who have completed:
- Build Your Lean Canvas
- Customer Discovery
What You’ll Learn
This session focuses on thinking, not tools. You’ll learn how to use AI as a partner to:
Make Sense of What You’ve Learned Through Customer Discovery
- Synthesize customer interview insights into clear patterns
- Pressure-test your assumptions
- Identify the riskiest thing you still need to prove
Design the Right Experiment
- Define the cheapest, fastest test of your idea
- Explore multiple ways to validate before committing
- Focus on learning — not building a perfect product
Build a Lightweight Prototype with AI
- Turn insights into a simple test (landing page, mockup, flow, or MVP concept)
- Use AI tools to rapidly create and iterate
- Understand what to measure and how to interpret results
Event Details
- Duration: 2 hours
- Format: Interactive, in-person workshop at Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Rd.
- Capacity: Limited to 25 participants
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cours Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Road, Ottawa, Canada
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