# Capability Value Proposition Canvas

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Language: en

Entity ID: capabilityValuePropositionCanvas

A technology-agnostic canvas for mapping consumer tasks, gains, pains, and candidate reusable capabilities before selecting an implementation style.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- Clear reusable capability value proposition
- Consumer tasks, gains, and pains captured without assuming a technology
- Candidate reusable capabilities identified for architecture evaluation

## How to use

1. List the consumer tasks and outcomes the capability should support.
2. Identify gain-enabling capability features.
3. Identify pain-relieving capability features.
4. Group the features into candidate reusable capabilities.

## Canvas guidance

Which reusable capability would create value for consumers without deciding yet whether it should be delivered as an API, event, file, stream, data product, or another implementation style?

Start from consumer tasks and outcomes. Capture gain-enabling and pain-relieving capability features, then describe candidate reusable capabilities without naming the technology too early.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Osaango Ltd

### Consumer tasks and outcomes

What are consumers, partners, users, systems, or teams trying to achieve?

### Gain-enabling capability features

What capability features would help consumers achieve better outcomes, speed, automation, insight, reach, or compliance?

### Pain-relieving capability features

What capability features would remove friction, manual work, errors, delays, risk, or uncertainty for consumers?

### Reusable capabilities

What reusable business or data capabilities could serve these tasks, gains, and pains across more than one consumer or use case?