A discovery sprint is a short, structured engagement — typically one to two weeks — that turns a product idea into an evidence-based scope: the audience, the core workflow, the riskiest assumptions, and what to build first.
The output is decisions, written down — not a slide deck.
Development is the most expensive way to discover you scoped the wrong thing. A sprint costs days and routinely removes weeks from the build by cutting features that never needed to exist.
Practical answers
One to two weeks: a workshop, async research and interviews, then a written scope and recommendation.
If the product is genuinely simple, the sprint is short and confirms it cheaply. The expensive surprise is the 'simple' product that wasn't.
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