BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY WORKSHEET
Space Office | Original planning template | 2026-10-26
Guide: https://www.spaceoffice.ai/blog/business-development

1. GROWTH HYPOTHESIS
Current business constraint or opportunity:
Target customer and observed problem:
Proposed route: new segment / partner / offer extension / existing customer:
Why the route could create mutual value:
Assumptions: demand / suitability / access / capacity / economics:
Next decision / explicit exclusions / owner:

2. EVIDENCE LOG
Claim | source URL or approved record | date | scope | owner
Observed fact:
Inference and why it follows:
Unanswered question / evidence needed / responsible person:
Current alternatives and customer workflow:
Conflicting or stale evidence to recheck:
Data minimization and permitted sources:

3. ACCOUNT AND PARTNER QUALIFICATION
Account | source-backed fit | need | readiness | unknowns | next action
Supported scope and suitable item or use case:
Appropriate contact and authorized route:
Agreed conversation or other next step:
Delivery capacity / effect on existing promises:
Partner benefit / duties / support / commercial terms to resolve:
Hold or stop reason:
Segment fit does not establish permission to contact or readiness to buy.

4. EXPLORATORY CONVERSATION
Current process / what works / friction / alternatives:
Who evaluates a change / evidence they need:
Compatibility, quantities, timing and support questions:
What would make the offer unsuitable:
Agreed next step / owner / date / approval to share:

5. PILOT CHARTER
Specific assumption and question:
Participants / sample / supported scope / exclusions:
Time / spending / effort limits / delivery owner:
Responsibilities and commercial terms approved by:
Acceptance evidence / observation method / raw feedback:
Stop conditions / escalation owner:
Review date / final decision-maker:
The guide's two studios, ten inserts, four weeks and twelve hours
are fictional boundaries to illustrate a charter, not universal targets.

6. REVIEW
Activity: researched / conversations / samples sent:
Qualification: evidence-backed fit / agreed next steps:
Commercial: trial orders / completed delivery / repeat demand:
Costs: materials / preparation / delivery / support / partner arrangements:
Capacity and effect on existing customers:
Unknowns, small-sample limits and unfulfilled obligations:
Decision: continue / revise / pause / stop:
Evidence and reason / next commitment / owner / due date:

7. HANDOFF AND SPACE OFFICE PACKET
Approved offer, constraints, hypothesis, sources and minimized examples:
Oxygen: growth route, assumptions and qualification logic:
Iron: source-backed prospect and account research:
Hydrogen: coordination and review:
Human: verifies evidence, authorizes contact, approves pilot and terms:
Receiving owner accepts customer need, evidence, scope, permissions,
unresolved questions and next action: