Maximize Continuous Learning
To Drive Sustained Growth
Eric Brousseau
MetaforIQ Founder
Quantifiable Magnitude
Impact across Complex Domains
Principles & Philosophy
Quality over QuantityEffective over EfficientOutcomes over Output
The Scientific Method
Product strategy is executed as a series of experiments designed to transform assumptions into validated knowledge. By formulating testable hypotheses at the onset, critical risks are isolated and mitigated before significant resources are committed. This ensures the product remains anchored to proven customer value and viable business outcomes.
Systems Thinking
Product excellence requires looking beyond surface-level symptoms to understand the end-to-end holistic process. By reading between the lines of market signals and user behavior, the goal is to identify the root causes of friction rather than just treating the effects. Analyzing these interdependencies allows for moving past incremental changes to discover the high-leverage opportunities that drive meaningful business outcomes.
Cross-Functional Synthesis
Innovation is driven by the deliberate integration of diverse functional perspectives. By actively sharing deep experience across product, engineering, design, and data science, a shared technical and strategic language is established. This alignment eliminates departmental friction, allowing disparate disciplines to navigate complex trade-offs and execute as a singular unit.
The Product Loop
Discover
High-leverage opportunities are identified through customer discovery, stakeholder alignment, and the synthesis of empirical evidence. This phase focuses on isolating critical variables and validating the core vision through hypothesis testing before significant capital is committed.
Design
This phase ensures strategic intent is translated into a defined solution through cross-functional shaping and outcome-based metrics. By optimizing for user viability, technical feasibility, and business alignment, the product is structured to solve core needs while remaining technically sound and commercially sustainable.
Deliver
Execution is focused on high-integrity delivery and the rapid deployment of incremental value. The primary focus is maintaining the strategic intent of the solution throughout the build cycle, leveraging incremental improvements to accelerate time-to-learning and gather empirical feedback.
Operate
The loop is completed by evaluating how the product performs in a real-world environment. By synthesizing quantitative usage data with qualitative insights from surveys and interviews, the actual user experience is measured against the initial hypothesis to calibrate the next sequence of strategic product bets.
Navigating Complexity with Strategic Intent
Explore the portfolio of AI/ML and zero-to-one initatives driven by empirical evidence and systems thinking.