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Lean Canvas Workshop
20–30 min2–8 peopleRemote · Hybrid · In-person
Write a fast and effective business plan in under 20 minutes. Focus on the biggest risks first.
What is this workshop?
The Lean Canvas is a one-page business model designed for speed — not the hundred-page business plan nobody reads. This workshop walks your team through filling out all nine building blocks in under 20 minutes, starting with the riskiest assumptions. It's the fastest way to stress-test a new product idea or sanity-check a pivot before you commit to building it.
What's included
- 9-block Lean Canvas template
- Box-filling sequence guide
- Riskiest assumption identifier
- Validation experiment prompt
This is for you if…
- Founders or product leads stress-testing a new idea
- Teams evaluating a potential pivot before committing to it
- Anyone who needs to communicate a business model on one page
How to access this template
- 1Enter your email in the card — we'll send you the template link right away.
- 2Open the link and go to File → Make a copy → Entire presentation.
- 3Choose a destination folder in your Google Drive and click 'OK'.
- 4Your copy is ready — rename it and start editing.
How to run this workshop
- 1Make a copy of the Google Slides deck — go to File → Make a copy → Entire presentation.
- 2Start with the Problem box — write the top three problems your target customer faces.
- 3Move to Customer Segments: who has these problems most acutely?
- 4Fill in Unique Value Proposition, Solution, and Channels in order.
- 5Complete the Revenue Streams and Cost Structure boxes last.
- 6Identify the riskiest assumption on the canvas and decide how you'll test it first.
Tips for first-time facilitators
- Start with Problem, not Solution — even if the team already has a solution in mind, anchoring to the problem first produces a better canvas.
- Treat every box as a hypothesis. Write 'We believe that...' before each entry if the team states opinions as facts.
- Don't polish it. A messy canvas filled in honestly beats a clean one filled with aspirational nonsense.