After months of product manager surveys, analysis, and cleanup, the Productify State of Product Strategy 2025 Report is here! It is a 27 pages of comprehensive look at how product leaders are navigating strategy in today’s fast-evolving landscape. (Download link at bottom)Based on insights from 200+
Remember When You Knew Every Customer by Name?If there’s one pattern I’ve seen repeat across every stage of company growth from early-stage scrappiness to scaled execution it’s this: as companies grow, distance creeps in.The same happens to leaders. The closer they get to managing outcomes, the furt
The hardest part of feedback isn’t collecting it ....it’s connecting it.As product leaders, we’re flooded with feedback across emails, Slack threads, call notes, surveys all pointing in different directions. The real challenge isn’t collecting it; it’s connecting it. That’s where AI starts to shine:
Product managers need to ensure their AI-powered products deliver real value, perform reliably, and maintain user trust.Imagine this: an e-commerce platform launches an AI-powered search bar designed to understand shopper intent and surface highly relevant products. But users soon notice the AI hall
Turn your strategy into machine-readable context.We are entering a moment where every organization, whether it realizes it or not, is being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence. AI tools are creeping into the workflows of engineers, marketers, analysts, and even customer-facing staff. In many cases,
The Hidden Patterns Behind Viral AI Products (and What’s Next)If you haven’t heard it yet, the "Nano Banana" trend is going viral because it allows anyone to easily create hyper-realistic, miniature 3D figurines from photos using Google's Gemini AI, requiring no technical skills and being free to us
With AI in the mix, PMs can’t rely on PRDs and decks alone — they need to demo, prototype, and bring ideas to life to earn alignment.There are two narratives ongoing for Product Managers in the industry:PMs, UX and Engineers all three would be able to do each other’s jobs. This means that each of th
AI will sharpen the divide between Real PMs who drive strategy and impact, and Title-Only PMs who focus on process and delivery.If it comes down to going all-in on AI today, it can now support Product Managers (PMs) across nearly every step of the product lifecycle: automating customer interviews, s
AI has taken the hard part of building software and made it feel easy. But it hasn't touched the harder part of understanding if the software will make money.If you've ever shipped a product or owned a software business, you know this: writing code isn't the real bottleneck for business, of-course t
Welcome to 2025, where AI in product management is no longer hype. It’s the infrastructure. PMs who get it? They're compounding returns. PMs who don't? Well, the bus is leaving the station.This piece is for product leaders ready to embrace AI not just as a tool, but as a co-pilot across the messy, m
Profitability isn’t a quarterly review slide. It’s baked into the choices you make daily as a PM.If you’re a Product Manager reading this, chances are someone (maybe your CEO/CFO, maybe your OKRs) has nudged you to “think profitability” And if you're like most PMs, you're probably asking: "Okay, but
And Why it should matter to you as a Product Manager or a Leader.If you have read my last post The Unhappy Path of Product Strategy, you would know that I am a big supporter of Product Managers (and other builders/operators of the company) to map out the (if not all, some of the) unhappy paths the s
Product Strategy should also cover aspects about having pivot points, focusing better, avoiding distractions, needing support and goal orientation on what is called the “Operational Discipline”There are some parallels between a strategy exercise and product creation.One of them is optimism.Pick a pr
A good first step for Product Managers of today to start combining product metrics with financial metrics and think of them as two sides of the same coin. I call it growth + financial impact duo.Welcome to this week’s edition of Productify. Before we get started on todays topic, did you know that:on
Last couple of months on Productify, I have been researching and writing about how Product Managers can start applying AI in their day-to-day work. If you missed the action, here are some links to what was published:Top 10 AI tools for Product ManagersHow to experiment in the world of AIAI tools fo
In November last year, I wrote about how KPIs you track as product builder have been evolving as products have moved to include predictive AI and Generative AI elements into them.One of the most adopted GenAI powered product has been the chatbot. Generative AI has democratized chatbot development, e
Strategy Lab is your one-stop strategy brainstorming partner fit for product and business builders. You can get your strategy documents reviewed, or you can get them rated.Getting to a Strategy is a complex process.Not only because you need to understand how to write it down in a way it makes sense
AI is transforming product management by automating routine tasks and enhancing productivity, but understanding customer needs remains paramount.I recently had the pleasure of joining Beyond Coding podcast for a deep dive into how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping product management. This wa
Do not spend weeks and months in research, spend minutes now with these 5 handpicked AI market research and competition analysis tools.Whether you're looking to stay ahead of market trends or streamline your product discovery and exploration workflow, this edition of Productify provides 5 valuable A
AI is being much talked about. But the best way to learn it is experiencing it. Here is the list of 10 AI tools you can get started on!AI is being much talked about. And for Product Managers and leaders, there’s a world to explore out there.And the first step to understanding the spectrum of AI appl
