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🎯personal-productivity🎯Skill

Helps users manage time and tasks more effectively by applying practical productivity techniques from top leaders

personal-productivity
🎯writing-prds🎯Skill

Skill for writing effective product requirements documents using frameworks and insights from 11 product leaders, focusing on problem definition, success metrics, and actionable specs

writing-prds
🎯brand-storytelling🎯Skill

Helps craft compelling brand narratives by uncovering transformative stories, structuring memorable messaging, and positioning brands as leaders

brand-storytelling
🎯giving-presentations🎯Skill

Guides users in crafting compelling presentations by helping them develop clear narratives, engaging structures, and confident delivery techniques.

giving-presentations
🎯competitive-analysis🎯Skill

Competitive analysis skill using frameworks from 49 product leaders to evaluate market threats, find asymmetries, and position against competitors

competitive-analysis
🎯ai-product-strategy🎯Skill

AI product strategy skill using frameworks from 94 product leaders to guide architecture decisions, build-vs-buy evaluations, and AI roadmap planning

ai-product-strategy
🎯vibe-coding🎯Skill

Skill for guiding AI-assisted software building using insights from 3 product leaders, covering iterative prompting, goal breakdown, and expectation setting for prototypes and MVPs

vibe-coding
🎯startup-ideation🎯Skill

Skill for generating and evaluating startup ideas using frameworks from 2 product leaders, covering personal experience mining, information differentiation, and the Why Now test

startup-ideation
🎯user-onboarding🎯Skill

Guides product teams in designing frictionless user onboarding that rapidly reveals core product value and drives early user engagement.

user-onboarding
🎯founder-sales🎯Skill

Skill for helping founders close first customers and build repeatable sales processes using insights from 16 product leaders, covering outreach, discovery calls, and hiring timing

founder-sales
🎯systems-thinking🎯Skill

Helps users map complex systems by identifying players, incentives, interactions, and potential leverage points for strategic decision-making.

systems-thinking
🎯defining-product-vision🎯Skill

Helps product teams craft compelling, user-centric visions by guiding them to articulate transformative long-term aspirations beyond current technological constraints.

defining-product-vision
🎯behavioral-product-design🎯Skill

Helps design products using behavioral science principles to nudge user behavior, increase retention, and create more engaging user experiences.

behavioral-product-design
🎯technical-roadmaps🎯Skill

Guides users in creating structured, pragmatic technical roadmaps using frameworks that prioritize clear documentation, strategic simplicity, and focused engineering efforts.

technical-roadmaps
🎯content-marketing🎯Skill

Helps users develop targeted content marketing strategies by identifying goals, validating search demand, and creating content that solves specific professional pain points.

content-marketing
🎯positioning-messaging🎯Skill

Skill for crafting product positioning and messaging using frameworks from 58 product leaders, covering audience targeting, competitive framing, and differentiated value propositions

positioning-messaging
🎯writing-specs-designs🎯Skill

Guides users in crafting clear, collaborative technical specs and design documents by emphasizing prototyping, shared vision, and practical communication.

writing-specs-designs
🎯problem-definition🎯Skill

Helps users precisely define and validate product problems by uncovering struggling moments and separating real needs from premature solutions.

problem-definition
🎯design-systems🎯Skill

Skill for building and scaling design systems using frameworks from 4 product leaders at Figma and Airbnb, covering component libraries, design tokens, documentation, and adoption strategies

design-systems
🎯setting-okrs-goals🎯Skill

Skill for setting effective OKRs and goals using frameworks from 55 product leaders, covering company/team/individual objectives, key results definition, and goal alignment

setting-okrs-goals
🎯prioritizing-roadmap🎯Skill

Skill for prioritizing product roadmaps and backlogs using frameworks from 75 product leaders, covering incremental vs big bets, resource allocation, and stakeholder management

prioritizing-roadmap
🎯designing-growth-loops🎯Skill

Skill for designing growth loops using frameworks from 54 product leaders at Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Calendly, covering viral, paid, content, and product-led acquisition loops

designing-growth-loops
🎯sales-qualification🎯Skill

Helps sales professionals quickly and systematically qualify leads by defining clear disqualification criteria and efficient discovery processes.

sales-qualification
🎯building-with-llms🎯Skill

Skill for building effective AI applications using techniques from 60 product leaders, covering LLM prompting, RAG architecture, agent design, and eval-driven quality improvement

building-with-llms
🎯planning-under-uncertainty🎯Skill

Helps users navigate uncertain product and strategy planning by adapting frameworks, building flexibility, and creating resilient decision-making processes.

planning-under-uncertainty
🎯written-communication🎯Skill

Helps users craft clear, concise, and persuasive written communications by applying strategic writing frameworks and principles.

written-communication
🎯conducting-user-interviews🎯Skill

Skill for running better customer discovery interviews using techniques from 43 product leaders, covering question design, participant selection, and insight extraction

conducting-user-interviews
🎯enterprise-sales🎯Skill

Guides users through enterprise sales strategies, helping them navigate complex deal cycles, buying committees, and procurement challenges with expert frameworks.

enterprise-sales
🎯launch-marketing🎯Skill

Helps users strategically plan and execute product launches with expert-backed strategies for maximum visibility and impact.

launch-marketing
🎯pricing-strategy🎯Skill

Helps users design optimal pricing strategies by assessing value, understanding customer segments, and creating adaptable monetization models.

pricing-strategy
🎯measuring-product-market-fit🎯Skill

Helps entrepreneurs validate product-market fit by diagnosing current stage, applying targeted assessment frameworks, and guiding strategic iteration or scaling decisions.

measuring-product-market-fit
🎯design-engineering🎯Skill

Helps organizations bridge design and engineering by defining roles, reducing handoff friction, and creating teams that combine design sensibility with production coding skills.

design-engineering
🎯usability-testing🎯Skill

Guides users through conducting effective usability tests by clarifying goals, selecting test methods, designing scenarios, and extracting actionable product insights.

usability-testing
🎯product-led-sales🎯Skill

Guides users in transforming product-led growth into strategic sales motions by defining PQLs, designing sales handoffs, and converting product usage into enterprise contracts.

product-led-sales
🎯platform-infrastructure🎯Skill

Guides engineering teams in strategically designing, scaling, and optimizing internal technical platforms and shared infrastructure for maximum developer productivity.

platform-infrastructure
🎯product-taste-intuition🎯Skill

Skill for developing product taste and intuition using frameworks from 10 product leaders, covering deliberate product analysis practice, gap identification, and gut-trust building

product-taste-intuition
🎯writing-north-star-metrics🎯Skill

Helps product teams define a clear, actionable North Star metric that measures genuine customer value and drives strategic alignment.

writing-north-star-metrics
🎯analyzing-user-feedback🎯Skill

Extracts actionable product insights by synthesizing customer feedback across channels, identifying patterns, and translating signals into strategic recommendations.

analyzing-user-feedback
🎯evaluating-trade-offs🎯Skill

Skill for evaluating trade-offs between competing options using mental models from 40 product leaders, covering speed vs quality, short-term vs long-term, and constraint analysis

evaluating-trade-offs
🎯startup-pivoting🎯Skill

Skill for deciding when and how to pivot a startup using frameworks from 2 product leaders, covering traction assessment, possibility exhaustion, and pivot magnitude evaluation

startup-pivoting
🎯ai-evals🎯Skill

Guides users in systematically designing, implementing, and measuring AI evaluation frameworks to define and validate model performance and quality.

ai-evals
🎯community-building🎯Skill

Skill for building and scaling product communities using frameworks from 18 product leaders at Notion, Figma, and WordPress, covering community types, sharing mechanics, and listening strategies

community-building
🎯conducting-interviews🎯Skill

Guides users in designing structured, behavioral-based interview processes to effectively evaluate candidates and make high-quality hiring decisions.

conducting-interviews
🎯working-backwards🎯Skill

Guides users through systematically defining product ideas by starting with customer problems, writing press releases, and developing FAQs to clarify value propositions before building.

working-backwards
🎯platform-strategy🎯Skill

Skill for designing platform business strategies using frameworks from 24 product leaders, covering marketplaces, API platforms, multi-sided network effects, and developer ecosystems

platform-strategy
🎯running-design-reviews🎯Skill

Guides teams in conducting structured, value-focused design reviews by establishing clear feedback frameworks and quality standards.

running-design-reviews
🎯building-sales-team🎯Skill

Skill for building and scaling sales organizations using frameworks from 14 product leaders, covering first hire timing, compensation structures, and founder-led sales transition

building-sales-team
🎯shipping-products🎯Skill

Skill for shipping products faster using frameworks from 47 product leaders, covering scope management, quality trade-offs, dependency resolution, and maximally accelerated timelines

shipping-products
🎯managing-tech-debt🎯Skill

Skill for managing technical debt strategically using insights from 18 product leaders, covering legacy systems, refactoring decisions, rewrite vs incremental fixes, and getting stakeholder buy-in

managing-tech-debt
🎯retention-engagement🎯Skill

Skill for improving retention and engagement metrics using frameworks from 29 product leaders, covering churn analysis, aha moment identification, habit formation, and retention loops

retention-engagement
🎯designing-surveys🎯Skill

Skill for designing effective surveys using frameworks from 9 product leaders, covering NPS, CSAT, product-market fit surveys, question design, and respondent targeting

designing-surveys
🎯evaluating-new-technology🎯Skill

Skill for evaluating emerging technologies using frameworks from 22 product leaders at Google and Shopify, covering problem-first assessment, maturity analysis, and build vs buy decisions

evaluating-new-technology
🎯coaching-pms🎯Skill

Guides managers in developing product managers through structured competency assessment, vision alignment, and targeted growth plans.

coaching-pms
🎯stakeholder-alignment🎯Skill

Skill for achieving stakeholder alignment and buy-in using frameworks from 88 product leaders, covering pre-alignment, motivation analysis, and influencing without authority

stakeholder-alignment
🎯building-a-promotion-case🎯Skill

Skill for building a promotion case using strategies from 17 product leaders, covering visibility, advocacy, blocker diagnosis, and framing advancement as solving company problems

building-a-promotion-case
🎯post-mortems-retrospectives🎯Skill

Skill for running post-mortems and retrospectives that drive genuine learning using frameworks from 11 product leaders, covering success and failure analysis with blame-free framing

post-mortems-retrospectives
🎯managing-timelines🎯Skill

Skill for setting and hitting realistic project timelines using approaches from 13 product leaders, covering estimation accuracy, scope management, and stakeholder pressure navigation

managing-timelines
🎯writing-job-descriptions🎯Skill

Skill for writing effective job descriptions using frameworks from 6 product leaders, focusing on success definition, spike identification, and progress-oriented role framing

writing-job-descriptions
🎯organizational-design🎯Skill

Helps design organizational structures by analyzing trade-offs between centralization and decentralization, guiding teams to optimize for speed, coherence, and strategic goals.

organizational-design
🎯career-transitions🎯Skill

Skill for navigating career changes using frameworks from 76 product leaders, covering role/function/industry pivots, motivation assessment, and readiness signals evaluation

career-transitions
🎯running-decision-processes🎯Skill

Skill for running effective decision-making processes using frameworks from 65 product leaders, covering DACI/RAPID frameworks, reversibility assessment, and commitment building

running-decision-processes
🎯running-effective-meetings🎯Skill

Skill for running more effective meetings using frameworks from 40 product leaders, covering necessity assessment, purpose clarification, agenda design, and follow-through

running-effective-meetings
🎯having-difficult-conversations🎯Skill

Skill for navigating tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict using frameworks from 43 product leaders, covering preparation, delivery techniques, and firing conversations

having-difficult-conversations
🎯evaluating-candidates🎯Skill

Skill for making better hiring decisions using frameworks from 94 product leaders, covering resume screening, work sample review, reference checks, and hiring bar calibration

evaluating-candidates
🎯scoping-cutting🎯Skill

Skill for scoping projects and cutting features effectively using frameworks from 15 product leaders, covering MVP definition, scope creep prevention, and hypothesis-driven shipping

scoping-cutting
🎯delegating-work🎯Skill

Skill for delegating work effectively using frameworks from 38 product leaders, covering energy audits, delegation style matching, and balancing hands-on vs hands-off leadership

delegating-work
🎯cross-functional-collaboration🎯Skill

Skill for cross-functional collaboration using frameworks from 57 product leaders at Linear and Airbnb, covering PM-engineering relationships, role clarity, and product trio building

cross-functional-collaboration
🎯product-operations🎯Skill

Streamlines product team operations by creating systems, managing cross-functional coordination, and enabling product managers to focus on strategic work.

product-operations
🎯energy-management🎯Skill

Helps users optimize personal energy, identify energy drains/boosters, and design productivity rhythms aligned with their strengths.

energy-management
🎯fundraising🎯Skill

Guides founders through strategic fundraising by challenging assumptions, crafting compelling pitches, and preparing for investor interactions.

fundraising
🎯negotiating-offers🎯Skill

Guides users through strategic job offer negotiations by understanding their situation, reframing compensation, and preparing collaborative negotiation approaches.

negotiating-offers
🎯building-team-culture🎯Skill

Helps teams articulate, document, and reinforce their unique cultural values to create high-performing, psychologically safe work environments.

building-team-culture
🎯engineering-culture🎯Skill

Guides engineering teams in building high-performance cultures by diagnosing challenges, designing practices, and balancing structure with developer autonomy.

engineering-culture
🎯managing-imposter-syndrome🎯Skill

Helps professionals overcome self-doubt by reframing imposter syndrome as a growth signal and providing confidence-building strategies.

managing-imposter-syndrome
🎯managing-up🎯Skill

Skill for working effectively with managers and executives using strategies from 35 product leaders, covering communication styles, alignment building, and visibility improvement

managing-up
🎯dogfooding🎯Skill

Guides teams in implementing rigorous dogfooding practices to deeply understand product user experiences and drive meaningful improvements.

dogfooding
🎯running-effective-1-1s🎯Skill

Guides managers in conducting purposeful, empowering one-on-one meetings by providing structured frameworks for career development, emotional support, and team growth.

running-effective-1-1s
🎯organizational-transformation🎯Skill

Guides organizations in transforming product development practices by designing targeted, strategic change approaches that respect existing structures and culture.

organizational-transformation
🎯finding-mentors-sponsors🎯Skill

Skill for finding mentors and sponsors using approaches from 19 product leaders, covering mentor vs sponsor vs coach distinctions, candidate identification, and relationship building

finding-mentors-sponsors
🎯marketplace-liquidity🎯Skill

Guides marketplace builders in diagnosing liquidity constraints, defining key metrics, and strategically balancing supply and demand across market segments.

marketplace-liquidity
🎯team-rituals🎯Skill

Helps teams design purposeful, templated rituals that drive specific cultural and operational outcomes with clear expectations and easy adoption.

team-rituals
🎯onboarding-new-hires🎯Skill

Guides users in creating comprehensive, empathetic onboarding plans that help new hires quickly integrate, learn, and contribute effectively.

onboarding-new-hires
🎯media-relations🎯Skill

Helps users craft compelling media pitches, identify target journalists, and build strategic press relationships for effective coverage.

media-relations
🎯partnership-bd🎯Skill

Helps users strategically build business development partnerships by crafting compelling pitches, assessing network dynamics, and negotiating mutually beneficial deals.

partnership-bd
🎯running-offsites🎯Skill

Guides teams in designing purposeful, high-impact offsites that balance strategic work, team connection, and creative collaboration.

running-offsites
🎯sales-compensation🎯Skill

Designs sales compensation plans that align sales incentives with business goals, addressing challenges like retention, quota-setting, and motivational structures.

sales-compensation