Product

AI Product Manager

Roadmap AI features with evals, UX for uncertainty, and clear kill criteria.

2–3 weeks · 14 lessons · 4 labs · 1 kill-date spec

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Mastery syllabus

1. 1 · Frame the problem

   Model limits are the product bar.

   • The 2026 AI job map10 min
   • Measure before you brag11 min
   • Where AI must not decide9 min

2. 2 · Scope and kill

   A big title with no eval budget is a trap.

   • Offers, salary, scope10 min
   • Hours you can show10 min
   • A 90-day hireable plan10 min
   • Write the kill date on day one12 min

3. 3 · Tell it in the room

   Uncertainty in the UX. Honest demos.

   • Interview voice10 min
   • The full hiring loop14 min

4. 4 · Maybe in the product

   Lock send. Show uncertainty. Evals in the spec.

   • The maybe is the product12 min
   • The eval lives in the spec12 min
   • Measure before you brag11 min

5. 5 · Kill with a number

   A date sales cannot edit in the hall.

   • Write the kill date on day one12 min
   • One-page AI policy10 min

Simulation labs

• Eval as a feature

  If you cannot score it, you cannot ship it.

  Open the lab

• Scope over title

  Ask for 90-day success in writing.

  Open the lab

• The maybe

  Lock send when unsure.

  Open the lab

• Eval in the spec

  Five cases next to the user.

  Open the lab

The project that hires

One-pager: problem, eval, kill date

1. Name the user and the miss they fear.
2. Write five eval cases and the score that ships.
3. Put a kill date on the calendar.

Interview room

• The model is 92% helpful and 8% ungrounded. Ship, gate, or kill? Why?
• Design the UX when the system is unsure.
• How do you explain evals to engineering and to sales in the same week?
• A 70% answer arrives. Ship, lock, or kill?

Resume lines that hire

• Defined evals and a rollback plan for a generative feature.