AI Opportunity & Model Strategy
Opportunity identification for AI Interview Questions
23 questions. All 23 carry a written answer.
- #1What characteristics make a workflow a good candidate for AI? List five.ConceptFoundational
- #2Describe a method for finding AI opportunities inside an existing product without starting from the technology.CaseIntermediate
- #3How do you distinguish a problem AI solves from a problem AI merely touches?ConceptIntermediate
- #4Rank these by AI suitability and justify: expense approval, contract review, invoice matching, hiring decisions.CaseIntermediate
- #5Explain why high-volume, low-stakes, tolerant-of-error tasks are the best first targets.ConceptFoundational
- #6Your support team handles 8,000 tickets a month. Structure a discovery process to find the AI opportunity.CaseIntermediate
- #7What signals in user research suggest an AI solution rather than a better interface?ConceptIntermediate
- #8Describe how you would size an AI opportunity before knowing whether it is technically feasible.CaseAdvanced
- #9Explain the difference between automating a task and augmenting a person doing it.ConceptFoundational
- #10Which is the better first AI feature: one that saves users time or one that unlocks a new capability? Defend it.InterviewIntermediate
- #11How do you find opportunities where AI changes the unit economics rather than just the experience?ConceptAdvanced
- #12Describe the jobs-to-be-done framing for an AI writing assistant.CaseIntermediate
- #13What is the risk of picking your first AI feature based on what is easiest to build?ConceptIntermediate
- #14Your company has no AI features. Propose a sequence of three, and explain the order.CaseAdvanced
- #15How would you evaluate an AI opportunity in a market where every competitor already has the feature?CaseAdvanced
- #16Explain how the cost of being wrong should shape which opportunities you pursue first.ConceptIntermediate
- #17Describe how you would use support tickets, search logs and abandoned sessions as an opportunity source.CaseIntermediate
- #18What makes an internal AI opportunity more attractive than a customer-facing one for a first project?ConceptIntermediate
- #19Build a scoring rubric for ranking ten candidate AI features.Artifact critiqueAdvanced
- #20How do you avoid the trap of building an AI feature that demos well and gets no repeat usage?ConceptAdvanced
- #21Identify an AI opportunity in a business you know nothing about, using only first principles.InterviewAdvanced
- #22What role should competitor pressure play in AI opportunity selection?ConceptIntermediate
- #23Pitch me an AI feature for a product I use daily, and tell me why it has not been built yet.InterviewAdvanced