Playbooks
A tool review tells you what something does. A playbook starts from the struggle eating your week and chains the right tools — with the exact prompts, the honest time math, and where it breaks. Every one is field-tested before it ships, and every one has to teach you something you didn’t already know. Run one this week.
Frontier
The job you don’t yet know is yours. The bar for this tier: a good senior PM at a good company does not do this today.
“Every AI session starts with the same 400 words about what your product is, who uses it, and what you already decided not to build — and the output is still generic.”
Build the context pack so you stop re-explaining your product every session
“Someone asks whether the AI feature is good enough to ship, and the honest answer is that you tried it eleven times and it felt fine.”
Write the eval set that defines "done" for your AI feature
“The thing your support team asks for every month is two days of engineering work, and it has been sitting at position fourteen on the roadmap for a year.”
Ship the small internal tool yourself instead of filing a ticket nobody picks up
Foundation
A job you already do, done properly — the right tools in the right order, with the verification step you’d have skipped.
“Your roadmap gets re-litigated from scratch in every exec review.”
From a roadmap that gets re-litigated to a review that ends in a decision
“The weekly status deck eats three hours — and nobody reads slide 4.”
From a three-hour status deck to a one-page memo they actually read
“The data team's queue is two weeks deep — and your decision is today.”
From a two-week data queue to a same-day decision memo
“You learned about your competitor's launch from the deal your team just lost.”
From competitor surprises to a 30-minute weekly sweep sales actually reads
“Eight discovery interviews are sitting unwatched in your drive — and the PRD you're writing this week cites none of them.”
From unwatched interview recordings to an evidence-backed PRD
“Your PRD gets taken apart in the review over three objections you could have found yourself the night before.”
The PRD that survives the review