Product & AI Blog
Notes on building AI products, making trade-offs, and deciding what comes next.
60 articles
The Security Questions Enterprise Buyers Ask About AI Products
Questions enterprise security and procurement teams ask about AI products, covering data use, retention, model providers, access control and incident handling.
4 min read · AI & LLMs
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
The Blank Prompt Problem: Onboarding Users to an AI Feature
Why an empty AI input box leads to low adoption and how to fix it: starter prompts, task-based entry points, examples from the user's own data and progressive guidance.
4 min read · AI & LLMs
Product Launch Checklist: Everything Outside the Code
A go-to-market launch checklist for product managers: positioning, sales and support readiness, pricing, documentation, internal comms and the post-launch review.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
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
From AI Pilot to Production: Why Enterprise AI Pilots Stall
Why enterprise AI pilots get stuck and how to plan one that can scale: agreed success criteria, real users, integration, ownership and a decision date.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Execution & Delivery
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
Retention Cohort Analysis: How to Read a Cohort Table Without Fooling Yourself
How to build and read a retention cohort table: choosing the cohort and the return event, spotting real changes, and the traps that make retention look better.
4 min read · Metrics & Analytics
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
The Recommendation Cold Start Problem: What to Show Someone You Know Nothing About
Product approaches to the recommendation cold start problem for new users and new content: onboarding signals, editorial picks, context and fast learning.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Metrics & Analytics
When a Partner API Goes Down: Designing for Third-Party Failure
Product decisions for when a supplier or partner API fails: timeouts, fallbacks, stale data, partial results, user messaging and reviewing incidents with the partner.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery