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# DAOhaus Summoner Research Guide
## Business / Product Questions 
`The actionable takeaways we want to generate from this research`

1. What are the main problems facing DAO summoners and members today? How are DAOs currently addressing them?
1. How does the DAOhaus/pokemol platform stack up to other DAO frameworks? Is there anything we need to change or improve?
1. What Boosts are most important to our users /  community? Which should we make available first?

## Research Questions
`The questions we should ask to get answers to the Business / Product Questions`

* How intensely are they involved in DAOs?
* Number of DAOs as member
* Membership in which DAOs
* Number of DAOs as summoner
* Frequency of DAO activity
* What kinds of activities are they engaging in with their DAOs?
* What DAO frameworks have they used? What do they like and not like?
* What is the goal/purpose of the DAO their most involved in?
* What tools and technologies does the DAO use today (outside of the DAO UI itself)?
* What are the potential barriers to the DAO achieving that purpose? Which are most impactful?
* How is the DAO addressing those issues today?
* What would help the DAO better overcome those barriers and/or make it more likely to achieve its goal? Which of these things would be most impactful?


## Interview Guide
`Specific questions and prompts for the interview`

#### Intro / Screener
0. How did you get into DAOs?
1. Which DAOs are you currently involved in? How long have you been a member of those DAOs?
2. Were you the summoner or a "founding member" of any of them?

#### DAO intensity
3. How frequently do you participate in your DAOs? Participation can mean engaging in any activity related to your DAOs.
4. What proportion of your time is spent on DAO-related activities?


#### DAO activities
5. Thinking back to participating in DAOs. What does this mean to you? What kinds of activities does that involve?
    - capture as much detail here as possible. prompts, if needed:
        - proposals: creating / voting / sponsoring / processing
            - get details on which types of proposals
        - summoning / initiating
        - discussion / debate
        - DAO improvements or processes
        - Doing work for / on behalf of the DAO
        - Cross-DAO interaction
        - social connection / hanging out with DAO members
        - Exiting / ragequitting 

#### DAO frameworks
6. What DAO frameworks have you used?
    - prompts, if needed:
        - moloch / DAOhaus/pokemol
        - Aragon
        - DAOstack
        - Compound-style token governance

7. What do you like and not like about each?
8. What changes or new stuff would you like to see from DAOhaus/pokemol?

#### DAO tools & technologies
9. Outside of the DAO ui itself, what tools and technologies does the DAO use?
    - prompts, if needed:
        - asynchronous communication
        - synchronous communication
        - social media
        - data or file storage / sharing
        - interacting with other smart contracts
        - offchain voting
        - swag (physical or digital)
        - access control
        - others?


> For the next set of questions, think about the DAO you're most involved in or that you care the most about.

#### DAO goal / purpose
10. What is the goal or purpose of that DAO?
    - prompts, if needed:
        - product
        - guild
        - venture
        - grants
        - club
        - non-profit / impact
        - protocol governance
        - something else?

#### DAO barriers to success
11. What are the barriers the DAO faces (or could face) that might prevent it from achieving that goal? 
    - Which are the most impactful? 
    - Which concern you the most?
    - prompts, if needed:
        - communication
        - concentration of power
        - visibility into operations
        - accessibility for new members
        - culture / customization
        - UX / operational support
        - member management / motivation
        - something else?

#### DAO solutions
12. What is the DAO doing today to address those barriers and concerns?
13. What do you think it should be doing that it's not?
14. Is there anything that would help the DAO better address them or make it more likely to achieve its goal?
    - Which would be the most impactful?
    - Would your DAO be open to paying for some of these solutions?

#### Close and thank you
15. Is there anything else you'd like to discuss?
16. How else can we help you and your DAO?