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Product Management

Feature specs, metrics review, roadmaps, and product strategy

Product Management

Acquisition Channel Advisor

Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Decide whether to scale, test, or kill each channel with finance-backed reasoning.

10 minutes
Intermediate
Product Management

AI-Shaped Readiness Advisor

Diagnose whether your product work is 'AI-first' (efficiency) or 'AI-shaped' (strategic transformation). Score 5 competencies, identify gaps, and get a priority action plan.

15 minutes
Advanced
Product Management

Altitude & Horizon Framework (PM → Director)

Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude (scope) and horizon (time). Diagnose which of four transition zones is creating friction and apply the Cascading Context Map when direction from above is vague.

10 minutes
Intermediate
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SaaS Business Health Diagnostic

Diagnose SaaS business health across growth, retention, unit economics, and capital efficiency. Identify red flags by urgency and get a prioritized action plan with stage-specific benchmarks.

15 minutes
Advanced
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Context Engineering Advisor

Diagnose whether you're doing context stuffing (volume without intent) or context engineering (structure for attention). Build memory architecture, define context boundaries, and implement the Research → Plan → Reset → Implement cycle.

15 minutes
Advanced
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Customer Journey Map

Build a strategic customer journey map across Awareness → Consideration → Decision → Service → Loyalty — with actions, touchpoints, emotions, KPIs, business goals, and owning teams per stage.

20 minutes
Intermediate
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Customer Journey Mapping Workshop

Run a 5-question adaptive workshop to build a customer journey map — actor, scenario, phases, actions/emotions, and prioritized opportunities — that aligns cross-functional teams around real pain points.

15 minutes
Intermediate
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Director Readiness Advisor

Coach the PM-to-Director transition with 4 situational branches — preparing, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating — and deliver war-story-backed guidance calibrated to your specific stage.

10 minutes
Advanced
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Discovery Interview Prep

Design a customer discovery interview plan with the right methodology, questions, and bias guardrails — calibrated to your research goal, segment, and constraints via 4 adaptive questions.

15 minutes
Intermediate
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Discovery Process (End-to-End)

Run a complete 6-phase discovery cycle — frame, research, synthesize, generate, validate, decide — in 3-4 weeks. Orchestrates 10+ component skills for problem-to-validated-solution workflow.

30 minutes
Advanced
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End-of-Life (EOL) Message

Write a clear, empathetic EOL announcement with customer-benefit rationale, explicit impact acknowledgment, transition support, and specific timeline — maintaining trust through product retirements.

10 minutes
Beginner
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Epic Breakdown Advisor (Humanizing Work)

Break epics into user stories using the Humanizing Work methodology — INVEST validation, 9 splitting patterns applied sequentially, and evaluation criteria that expose low-value work.

15 minutes
Intermediate
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Epic Hypothesis (Lean UX)

Frame epics as falsifiable if/then hypotheses with tiny discovery experiments and 2-4 week validation measures — so you can kill bad ideas before committing engineering.

10 minutes
Intermediate
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VP/CPO Executive Onboarding Playbook (30-60-90)

Run the first 90 days as diagnosis, not execution — Month 1 Diagnose, Month 2 Validate, Month 3 Act with Evidence. Plus Phase 0 CEO interview questions for evaluating the offer.

25 minutes
Advanced
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Feature Investment Advisor

Evaluate whether to build a feature using revenue connection, cost structure, ROI, and strategic value. Delivers build / build-strategic / don't-build / build-later recommendations with supporting math.

15 minutes
Advanced
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Finance-Based Pricing Advisor

Evaluate pricing changes (increases, tiers, add-ons, discounts) using ARPU, conversion, churn risk, NRR, and CAC payback math — before you ship the change.

15 minutes
Advanced
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SaaS Finance Metrics Quick Reference

Cheat sheet for 25+ SaaS metrics: formulas, benchmarks, red flags, and decision frameworks for feature investment, channel scaling, pricing changes, and business health.

5 minutes
Beginner
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Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD)

Map customer jobs (functional, social, emotional), pains, and gains — a structured lens for discovery, positioning, and roadmap prioritization that looks beyond feature requests to real motivations.

10 minutes
Intermediate
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Lean UX Canvas (v2)

Jeff Gothelf's 8-box one-page tool for framing work around the business problem, not the solution — surface assumptions, write testable hypotheses, and plan the smallest experiment before committing to build.

20 minutes
Intermediate
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Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)

Teresa Torres' discovery framework: desired outcome → 3 opportunities → 3 solutions each → POC selection with feasibility/impact/market fit scoring and experiment design.

20 minutes
Intermediate
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PESTEL Analysis

Systematic macro-environmental analysis across Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal factors — for market entry, strategic planning, and risk assessment.

30 minutes
Intermediate
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Proof of Life Probe Advisor

Pick the right PoL probe (Feasibility, Task-Focused, Narrative, Synthetic Data, Vibe-Coded) based on hypothesis, risk, and timeline — match the cheapest prototype to the harshest truth.

10 minutes
Intermediate
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Proof of Life (PoL) Probe

Define and document a lightweight, disposable validation artifact designed to surface harsh truths before expensive development — the artifact template that pairs with pol-probe-advisor.

15 minutes
Intermediate
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Positioning Statement (Geoffrey Moore)

Fill in the For/that need/is a/that + Unlike/provides template from Crossing the Chasm — forces hard choices about target, category, need, and defensible differentiation.

15 minutes
Intermediate
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Positioning Workshop

Run a structured 5-question discovery (target → need → category → benefit → differentiation) that outputs a Geoffrey Moore positioning statement — not a brainstorm, a forcing function for hard choices.

90 minutes
Intermediate
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PRD Development

Build a structured PRD that connects problem, users, solution, and success criteria across 8 phases — from scattered Slack threads to engineering-ready document for major initiatives.

2-3 days
Intermediate
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Press Release (Amazon Working Backwards)

Write a customer-perspective press release before building — Amazon's Working Backwards forcing function for clarity. If you can't write a compelling PR, the idea may be weak.

60 minutes
Intermediate
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Prioritization Framework Advisor

Pick the right prioritization framework (RICE, ICE, Value/Effort, Kano, Buy-a-Feature) based on product stage, team context, decision needs, and data availability — avoid framework whiplash.

30 minutes
Intermediate
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Problem Framing Canvas (MITRE)

Run MITRE's three-phase canvas — Look Inward (your biases), Look Outward (who's affected and who's left out), Reframe (problem + How Might We) — to solve the right problem before solutions.

60-90 minutes
Intermediate
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Problem Statement (User-Centered)

Write an empathy-driven problem statement (I am / Trying to / But / Because / Which makes me feel) that frames product work around user outcomes — not feature requests or business symptoms.

30 minutes
Beginner
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Product Sense Interview Answer

Six-part spine (clarify → rationale → goal → segmentation → pain → solution) for PM product-sense interviews — sound thoughtful out loud instead of over-scripted on paper.

20-30 minutes per practice answer
Advanced
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Product Strategy Session

End-to-end product strategy workflow orchestrating positioning, problem framing, discovery, prioritization, and roadmap across 6 phases over 2-4 weeks — with explicit decision points.

2-4 weeks
Advanced
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Proto-Persona

Create a lightweight, hypothesis-driven persona in hours from existing research, market signals, and team knowledge — a working customer profile before deeper validation.

60 minutes
Beginner
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Recommendation Canvas (AI Product)

10-component canvas for evaluating AI product proposals — business + customer outcomes, hypothesis with tiny experiments, PESTEL risks, value justification, SMART metrics, and next steps.

90-120 minutes
Advanced
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Roadmap Planning

Build an outcome-driven roadmap across 5 phases (gather inputs → define epics → prioritize → sequence → communicate) with hypotheses, RICE scores, and stakeholder alignment.

1-2 weeks
Intermediate
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SaaS Economics & Efficiency Metrics

PM-focused reference for unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback, contribution margin) + capital efficiency (burn, runway, OpEx) + ratios (Rule of 40, magic number) — with cash-trap pitfalls.

30-60 minutes
Advanced
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SaaS Revenue & Growth Metrics

PM reference for revenue + retention metrics — MRR/ARR, ARPU/ARPA, ACV, churn (logo + revenue), NRR, expansion, quick ratio — with cohort analysis and 10 most common pitfalls.

30-60 minutes
Intermediate
Product Management

Skill Authoring Workflow

Turn raw PM content into a compliant, publish-ready Claude skill via 6 phases (preflight → generate → tighten → validate → integrate → package) using repo-native scripts.

60-90 minutes per skill
Intermediate
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Storyboard (6-Frame Narrative)

Create a 6-frame visual storyboard (character → problem → "oh crap" moment → solution → "aha" moment → life after) — narrative for stakeholder alignment, concept reviews, and empathy-building.

60-90 minutes
Intermediate
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TAM/SAM/SOM Calculator

Calculate Total Addressable Market, Serviceable Available Market, and Serviceable Obtainable Market with explicit assumptions, citations, and 1-3 year projections — defensible market sizing for investors, execs, and PMF validation.

60-90 minutes
Intermediate
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User Story Mapping Workshop

Facilitated 5-question Jeff Patton story mapping workshop — backbone activities, prioritized tasks, walking-skeleton MVP, and 3 release slices for end-to-end incremental delivery.

90-120 minutes
Intermediate
Product Management

User Story Mapping (Component)

Hierarchical story map template — segment → persona → narrative → activities → steps → tasks — left-to-right user journey with vertical priority for MVP planning and gap identification.

60-90 minutes
Intermediate
Product Management

User Story Splitting (8 Patterns)

Break epics and oversized stories into independently deliverable slices using the Lawrence & Green 8-pattern framework — workflow, business rules, data, AC complexity, major effort, dependencies, DevOps, TADs.

30-45 minutes
Intermediate
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User Story (Mike Cohn + Gherkin)

Translate user needs into testable, outcome-focused user stories combining Mike Cohn's "As a / I want / so that" with Gherkin Given/When/Then acceptance criteria.

15-30 minutes
Beginner
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VP/CPO Readiness Advisor

Adaptive coaching for the Director-to-VP and VP-to-CPO transition — Three Ps diagnostic, Empowerment Myth, paradigm shift, alliance building, and 4 branches (preparing, interviewing, newly landed, recalibrating).

20-30 minutes
Advanced
Product Management

Workshop Facilitation Protocol

Canonical multi-turn facilitation pattern for interactive PM workshops and advisors — one question per turn, progress labels, entry modes, and decision-point recommendations.

varies by workshop
Intermediate
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Product Metrics Reviewer

Product metrics review with trend analysis, anomaly detection, and scorecard generation

10 minutes
Intermediate
Product Management

Product Spec Writer

Write feature specifications and PRDs from problem statements with user stories and acceptance criteria

10 minutes
Intermediate

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