> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.founder-sherpa.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Interview Guides

> Create structured interview guides to prepare for customer discovery sessions.

Interview Guides help you prepare for customer interviews by organizing hypotheses to test and questions to ask into a structured, reorderable plan.

## Creating a guide

1. Navigate to a persona's **Interview Prep** tab (or click **Prepare** from the Discovery Journey diagram)
2. Click **New Guide**
3. Enter a **name** (2–100 characters) and optional **description**
4. Select **hypotheses** to test during the interview — optionally add prep notes for each
5. Add **guide items** — either questions from your catalog or custom free-text notes
6. Reorder items by dragging them into your preferred sequence
7. Click **Save**

Each guide is scoped to a specific persona, ensuring your questions are targeted.

## Guide items

Guides contain two types of items:

| Type                 | Source                    | Description                                             |
| -------------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Catalog question** | From the Question Library | A question pulled from your workspace or system catalog |
| **Custom note**      | Free text                 | Your own notes, prompts, or follow-up reminders         |

Items can be freely reordered with drag-and-drop to create the flow you want.

## AI-suggested questions

While building a guide, click **Suggest Questions** to have AI generate interview questions based on:

* The selected persona's context
* The hypotheses you're testing
* Your project's problem statement

Each suggestion includes the question, a rationale for why it's relevant, and a category. You can:

* **Add to catalog** — Save it to your Question Library and add it to the guide
* **Add as note** — Insert it as a custom note item in the guide

## Using a guide

Open any guide to view it in read-only mode. The view includes:

* Guide name and description
* Selected hypotheses with prep notes
* Ordered list of questions and notes

Click **Print** to generate a printer-friendly version using the browser's print dialog.

## Managing guides

* **Duplicate** — Create a copy of an existing guide to use as a starting point
* **Edit** — Modify hypotheses, items, or ordering at any time
* **Delete** — Remove a guide permanently (requires confirmation)

Guides appear on the persona's Interview Prep tab and can also be accessed from the project's guide list.