Product & AI Blog
Notes on building AI products, making trade-offs, and deciding what comes next.
8 articles in Strategy & Roadmaps
Outcome-Based Product Roadmap: An Example That Still Helps a Team Plan
Connect outcomes to practical delivery with a now-next-later roadmap, evidence gates, real commitments and a learning-product example.
3 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps
B2B Marketplace Product Management: Serving Buyers and Suppliers at Once
Product decisions in a B2B marketplace: balancing buyers and suppliers, trust and verification, complex quotes, offline relationships and liquidity metrics.
4 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps
Product Localization for International Markets: More Than Translation
Product decisions when launching in new countries: translation, local payments, pricing and currency, content availability, date formats and regional testing.
4 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps, Growth & Monetization
Product Strategy vs Roadmap: What Each One Should Answer
The difference between a product strategy and a roadmap, what a one-page strategy should contain, and how to tell when a roadmap has no strategy behind it.
4 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps
How to Validate a B2B Business Model Before Building the Product
Early validation for a B2B product: separating user, buyer and approver, testing willingness to pay, finding the budget line and spotting false signals.
4 min read · Discovery & Research, Strategy & Roadmaps
Build vs Buy for LLMs: Hosted API, Open-Weight Model or Something in Between
How to choose between a hosted LLM API and running an open-weight model: quality, cost at scale, data control, latency, team capacity and switching cost.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Strategy & Roadmaps
API Partnership Strategy: Evaluating a Third-Party Integration Before You Sign
How to evaluate an API partner before integrating: data quality, commercial terms, technical fit, support and the cost of maintaining the integration later.
4 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps
OKRs for Product Teams: Examples, and the Mistakes I Keep Seeing
Product team OKR examples with outcome-based key results, plus common mistakes like output KRs, too many objectives and grading that rewards sandbagging.
4 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps, Career & Teams