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Prompt-Led Product | For PMs Building in the AI Era

Prompt-Led Product | For PMs Building in the AI Era
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DraftKit: The Async Collaboration Workspace Built for Substack Writers
Managing a guest post from pitch to published took me longer than writing the thing solo. DraftKit is the product I built to fix exactly that: one…
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DraftKit: How SMART Match and SMART Draft Work
Most collaboration tools stop at the introduction.
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DraftKit: The Assumption I Had Wrong About My Own Product
Before I wrote the first line of code, I had a clear picture of what DraftKit would be.
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AI Advent Challenge: 25 Days of Learning AI from 37 AI Experts.

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AI Advent Challenge: 25 Days. 37 AI Experts. 900 Participants.
Most AI learning content is passive. The AI Advent Challenge was designed around one principle: the only way to learn a skill is to try it.
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How I Measured the AI Advent Challenge with Pirate Metrics
The first version of my analytics dashboard showed one number prominently: task completion rate. It looked great. It told me almost nothing useful.
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The Architecture That Made 900 Participants Show Up Every Day
The hardest problem in a 25-day challenge is not day one. Day one is easy because it is new. The hard problem is day eight, when the novelty is gone and…
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The Prompts I Use to Ship Real Products are Yours Now.

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The Prompt Vault: The AI-PM Pattern Library You Can Query From Claude
Most AI-PM knowledge exists in a format that is nearly impossible to apply when you need it. The Vault is a structured, searchable, queryable pattern…
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The AEO Strategy Behind promptledproduct.com
Most Substack writers have an SEO problem they do not know about.
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The Audit Pipeline From Intake to Delivery
The Prompt-Led Product audit pipeline is built to close that gap with a structured status lifecycle, automated buyer communication, and a feedback loop.
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I Find the Exact Moment Your Users Quit.

I Break AI Tools So You Don’t Have To
Most AI products fail silently. The onboarding looks clean yet the database is completely empty. I find exactly where that happens, and I find it before…
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Slack Code's Whole Safety Pitch Is "Everyone Can See." Here's the Rule That Actually Stops an Agent.
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