How to automate your PM workflows, teach an agent your taste, and stop doing the work that doesn't need you.The software engineering job got automated faster than anyone predicted. Product management is next, and most PMs aren’t ready.Emma Burrows, ex-CTO of Stripe UK, has spent 18 months doing what
Mistral is building sovereign, open-weight AI for enterprises that care less about hype and more about control, cost, and deployment flexibility,Here’s the thing: while everyone is busy arguing about whether OpenAI or Anthropic hits 30 billion dollars in revenue first, a French upstart quietly 20x’d
Your LinkedIn feed is lying to you. One week it’s layoffs. The next, everyone’s celebrating new AI PM roles. The data tells a far more specific story and where you sit on the map changes everything.Last I checked, top 3 sources of audience on Productify is US (>25%), India (25%) and EU (10%).. so th
While AI rewrites how you build, it has not changed what you need to get right.I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next
Guide for Managers: How to run 1:1sThere are two quiet assumptions most managers carry into their 1:1s. One: Either it is their meeting, their agenda to drive. Second: Or the opposite, that the direct report is coming prepared, so there is nothing much to do except show up and respond.Both feel reas
Surprise surprise... AI doesn't make the trio obsolete.First of all lets understand why does PM-UX-Tech trio even exist in product organizations.Not because someone drew an org chart and decided to split the work three ways.Each role exists because building something useful for real people is genuin
And its open to first 100 test users :)Hey 👋 Today’s newsletter is a bit different from other editions, as I dive into a day-to-day problem I experience while discovering and reading newsletters.Something interesting is happening quietly all around us.Our own personal problems we used to shelve, the
Moving fast without asking Why is the most expensive mistake product teams make.Most teams that want to move fast believe they need the same set of things. A clear owner of the work. Faster decisions. Everyone aligned. Requirements locked. Delivery on time. If you have spent enough years in a compan
When AI can help you build anything, the real competitive edge is knowing exactly what’s worth building.The goal of a PRD is simple: to align a team on what to build and why. Yet, somewhere along the way, we started worshipping the artifact instead of the outcome.We’ve all seen PRDs go wrong. Massiv
Product teams are under constant pressure to answer big, messy questions: who their real competitors are, what customers truly care about, how market trends are shifting, and where opportunities or risks are emerging. Too often, they turn to AI hoping for a shortcut and instead get confidently wrong
A pause button for teams tempted to copy competitors without clear strategic intent.It isn’t enough for product managers and leaders to know what customers want and where the market is heading; they also need a clear view of how competitors move. Competitive awareness informs positioning, pricing, m
Scalability is about making choices today that won’t require complete rewrites tomorrow.Every product manager has been there. Six months after launch, your team is frantically refactoring code, redesigning APIs, or worse explaining to stakeholders why that “temporary solution” now requires three qua
Today’s newsletter is a collaboration post from Brian Balfour, who is the founder and CEO of Reforge, which has recently launched several AI-native SaaS tools for product teams. One of those is Reforge Build, an AI prototyping tool built for PMs. It’s designed for prototyping based on your real prod
AI agent doesn’t experience a moment of “Oh, I love this design!” Instead, it follows an algorithm. How to design around it?From our partner:Reforge Build is the AI prototyping tool for product teamsVibe coding is fun, but AI prototyping is changing product development. Reforge Build is designed aro
Basics of how NLP, RAG, and MCP can help product managers build AI systems that stay factual, grounded, and trustworthy.Imagine this: you’re a product manager at a company building an AI-powered customer support chatbot. Your team spent months training it on company policies, product documentation,
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,
