How to use the Opportunity solution tree template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Opportunity solution tree template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Opportunity solution tree”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Start from one measurable outcome. Opportunities are customer needs in their words; test the riskiest assumption first.”
Fill in each part
- Outcome
- Opportunities
- Solutions
- Experiments
- Raise week-2 retention from 35% to 45% Branches: I don’t know where to start on an empty board · My team never comes back to the board · Sharing with clients is awkward
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Opportunity solution tree board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Assumption map
Sort what you believe about an idea by how much it matters and how much evidence you have, then test the risky ones first.
Opportunity scoring
Find under-served needs: score how important each outcome is to customers and how satisfied they are today, then chase the biggest gaps.
Assumption test plan
For each risky assumption behind a plan: how we will test it, what we will measure, where the pass line is and what we found.
Customer problem ranking
Rank the problems customers bring up by how many have them, how much they hurt and how well we could solve them.
Hypothesis tracker
Keep every working hypothesis in one table with the evidence for and against, how confident you are and the next test.
Problem statement builder
Write a problem worth solving before anyone suggests a solution: who has it, when, what it costs them and how we know.