# Automation Hypothesis & Validation Canvas

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/resources/automation-hypothesis-canvas

Language: en

Entity ID: automationOpportunityCanvas

Turn existing journey, value, impact, domain, and capacity evidence into a testable automation decision.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- A focused decision or design artifact that reuses earlier evidence
- Earlier canvas outputs are referenced instead of repeated
- The next decision, design step, or readiness gap is explicit

## How to use

1. Reuse earlier canvas outputs. Record only the remaining hypothesis, uncertainties, validation, and decision.
2. Complete only the sections that add a new decision or refinement.
3. Carry the resulting decisions forward to the next station.

## Canvas guidance

Turn existing journey, value, impact, domain, and capacity evidence into a testable automation decision.

Reuse earlier canvas outputs. Record only the remaining hypothesis, uncertainties, validation, and decision.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Osaango Ltd

### Automation hypothesis

What work do we believe should be automated, and what outcome should it achieve?

### Reused evidence

Which earlier canvas outputs support the hypothesis?

### Critical assumptions

What could make the hypothesis wrong, unsafe, or unworkable?

### Validation experiment

What is the smallest useful test, evidence threshold, and stop condition?

### Decision

Proceed, revise, redesign the process, or stop?