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My Essential AI Toolbox for Product Managers: Tested Picks, Prompts, Workflows + Checklists
Read more: My Essential AI Toolbox for Product Managers: Tested Picks, Prompts, Workflows + ChecklistsThis guide distills what actually works when applying AI to product management, from discovery to delivery. I share my tested picks, when to use each tool, and the prompts and workflows that turn ideas into repeatable practices. You’ll get screenshot checklists for fast onboarding and better stakeholder alignment. The playbook emphasizes AI Strategy, governance, and…
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Fin for Sales: Instantly Engage, Qualify, and Close High‑Intent Leads with an AI Customer Agent
Read more: Fin for Sales: Instantly Engage, Qualify, and Close High‑Intent Leads with an AI Customer AgentFin for Sales brings an AI Customer Agent to the very start of your funnel, engaging prospects instantly, guiding discovery, and qualifying in real time with full CRM integration. It follows your Playbook, leverages your Knowledge, enriches buyer context, and uses Memory to continue conversations without starting over. Fin books meetings via Chili Piper or…
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Why Your Product Needs a Smarter Support Agent: Data-Driven, Agentic AI That Truly Helps
Read more: Why Your Product Needs a Smarter Support Agent: Data-Driven, Agentic AI That Truly HelpsSupport that merely surfaces articles is no longer enough. I look for an assistant that knows the user’s context, can act on their behalf, and proves its impact with hard data. By grounding agentic AI in behavioral analytics and a unified analytics platform, we can deliver targeted in-app guides, resolve issues end-to-end, and accelerate activation.…
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How AI Product Leaders Drive Better Products: My Take on Amplitude’s Mission and Impact
Read more: How AI Product Leaders Drive Better Products: My Take on Amplitude’s Mission and ImpactThis piece offers a concise take on how Amplitude’s AI focus translates into practical AI Strategy for behavioral analytics, Amplitude analytics, and product-led growth. Drawing on hands-on leadership experience, I outline patterns that pair A/B testing with eval-driven development and LLMs for product managers. I also highlight essential guardrails—build vs buy, privacy-by-design, and data governance—that…
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AI Now Approves Our Pull Requests—Safely: Inside an Agentic, Auditable Review Engine
Read more: AI Now Approves Our Pull Requests—Safely: Inside an Agentic, Auditable Review EngineAI now approves a growing share of our PRs, and the results are safer, faster releases—not shortcuts. By decomposing review into specialized, agentic checks, enforcing small batches, and building a fully auditable pipeline, we cut downtime from breaking changes by 35% while doubling deployments. In controlled pilots, AI-approved PRs had zero reverts and 6–16x faster…
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Forget Crystal Balls: How Scenario Planning Helps Me Ship Smarter in the Age of AI
Read more: Forget Crystal Balls: How Scenario Planning Helps Me Ship Smarter in the Age of AIAI is changing fast, but single-point predictions are a trap. In this first-person reflection, I share how scenario planning helps me avoid costly bets, cut through hype, and ground my product strategy in signals and invariants that matter. You’ll learn why early adopters don’t represent everyone, how to translate multiple futures into adaptive roadmaps, and…
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Inside Artemis’ AI vs AI Security War: Hiring at Speed, PMF Signals, and Founder-Led Sales
Read more: Inside Artemis’ AI vs AI Security War: Hiring at Speed, PMF Signals, and Founder-Led SalesArtemis emerged from stealth with $70M in combined seed and Series A funding, built a 30-person team in seven months, and committed to “stay on a texting basis with every customer, even at scale.” In this first-person analysis, I break down why AI-native companies are outperforming their AI-enabled counterparts and how to interview for true…
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From 70 Employees to Dominance: My Playbook for Hypergrowth, Focus, and Top-Down Goals
Read more: From 70 Employees to Dominance: My Playbook for Hypergrowth, Focus, and Top-Down GoalsScaling an atoms-based marketplace demands a different kind of product leadership. In this first-person playbook, I share how I apply a simple “plate spinning” framework to focus executive attention, why top-down goal setting protects ambition, and how to hire builder-executives who outlearn domain veterans. I cover staying close to product details without micromanaging, the role…
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Build to Learn vs. Build to Earn: My Proven Playbook for Outcomes Over Output in the AI Era
Read more: Build to Learn vs. Build to Earn: My Proven Playbook for Outcomes Over Output in the AI EraThere are two essential modes of product development: build to learn and build to earn. I use continuous discovery—customer interviews, prototypes, and A/B testing—to reduce uncertainty before scaling. When the evidence is strong, I switch to outcome-driven delivery using outcomes vs output OKRs and disciplined roadmapping. Product trios keep discovery and delivery in sync, while…
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Build vs. Buy for Churn Prediction: My Proven Playbook for Faster Retention and ROI
Read more: Build vs. Buy for Churn Prediction: My Proven Playbook for Faster Retention and ROIChurn prediction only creates value when it’s fast to deploy, accurate on your unique signals, and tightly integrated into activation workflows. I use a pragmatic framework: buy for speed and coverage, build for differentiation, and blend to get the best of both. With a vendor, you can operationalize insights quickly through in-app guides and product…
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From Brain Dump to Done: How Todoist’s Ramble Captures Tasks in Real Time with AI
Read more: From Brain Dump to Done: How Todoist’s Ramble Captures Tasks in Real Time with AIRamble turns stream-of-consciousness voice notes into structured tasks in real time by skipping transcription and using a Gemini live audio model. The Doist team pairs instant tool calls with thoughtful audio/visual confirmations for high-friction contexts like driving. They kept the model literal through temperature tuning, solved tricky date handling across locales, and built an LLM-judge…
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Inside Amplitude’s AI Platform: Powerful Lessons for Product Leaders Shaping Analytics
Read more: Inside Amplitude’s AI Platform: Powerful Lessons for Product Leaders Shaping AnalyticsA single line about building foundational AI platforms reveals what it really takes to scale AI analytics: trusted data, rigorous model operations, and self-serve tools with strong guardrails. I share how this platform mindset fuels empowered product teams, faster learning loops, and durable product-led growth. You’ll see why Amplitude analytics and behavioral analytics benefit from…
