Growth idea action plan
Pilot scorecard with quantitative deltas and user quotes
Present four or five side-by-side pilot improvements with a short participant quote beside each number before asking leadership to approve the wider rollout.
Why this can grow a startup
Raw anecdotes rarely survive leadership review, but spreadsheets alone can sound bloodless or easy to dismiss. Linear recommends pairing a handful of the clearest survey comparisons with a quote from a pilot participant. That makes the operating gain legible and human at the same time, which is often what gets a migration over the line.
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where pilot scorecard with quantitative deltas and user quotes can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Product Ops and Internal Comms channel.
- Use the evidence from linear.app to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
Linear tells teams to present four or five of the strongest baseline-versus-pilot comparisons and pair each one with a participant quote.
Source: Linear Pilot Guide (linear.app)
GrowthDex source hub: Linear Pilot Guide
Last checked: 2026-05-28
Adjacent tactics in the same lane
If this page is close to your problem, these tactic pages usually belong in the same working set.
- Influential, high-friction teams first in an internal pilot same source · 2 shared channels · 2 shared stages
- Baseline and post-pilot survey for switch proof same source · 1 shared channel · 2 shared stages
- Cutover runbook and rollback plan before support launch 1 shared channel · 1 shared stage
- Internal transition guide with pilot findings and team quotes 1 shared channel · 1 shared stage
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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