# productisdead

> AI was supposed to kill product management. Essays arguing it did the opposite, plus a free hub of AI skills for the product people who refused to die.

## Skills

- [PRD Interrogator](https://productisdead.com/skills/prd-interrogator.md): Stress-tests a spec like a skeptical VP. Finds the riskiest assumption, the missing "no", and the metric that would prove you wrong.
- [Ruthless Prioritizer](https://productisdead.com/skills/ruthless-prioritizer.md): Scores a backlog with RICE, then argues with its own scores. Flags fake precision, sandbagged effort and pet projects.
- [Interview Synthesizer](https://productisdead.com/skills/interview-synthesizer.md): Turns a pile of customer interview transcripts into themes, evidence and, crucially, the one surprising outlier worth chasing.
- [PRD Chunker](https://productisdead.com/skills/prd-chunker.md): Breaks a long PRD into 5–12 shippable chunks a team can build, demo and ship on their own, ordered into a Gantt plan, and opens it with a plain-language "why we're doing this" that anyone outside the team can follow. Use when a PRD or spec is too long to read in one pass, when the user asks to break a spec into milestones, epics, phases or slices, to plan delivery from a PRD, or to turn a PRD into a roadmap or Gantt chart.
- [Product Vision](https://productisdead.com/skills/product-vision.md): Builds, rewrites or reviews a holistic product vision asset that tells one traceable story, from "why does anyone care" to "what we ship this quarter" (job → problems → counters → Hooked loop → key results → proof). Use when the user wants to create or critique a product vision, vision deck or strategy narrative, asks how to tell their product's story end to end, wants to connect customer problems to the roadmap or OKRs, or wants to apply Nir Eyal's Hooked model (trigger, action, variable reward, investment) to a product strategy. Not for reviewing a single feature spec or decomposing one metric.
- [Release Notes Writer](https://productisdead.com/skills/release-notes-writer.md): Converts a messy changelog, PR list or ticket dump into release notes that users actually read. Benefits first, jargon never.
- [Metric Tree Builder](https://productisdead.com/skills/metric-tree-builder.md): Decomposes a north-star metric into the input levers a team can actually move, with owners, guardrails and leading indicators.
- [Competitor Teardown](https://productisdead.com/skills/competitor-teardown.md): A structured, unsentimental teardown of a competitor's product, positioning and pricing, ending in what you should do (and not copy).

## Writing

- [PID #2: Does Anyone Actually Read My PRDs?](https://productisdead.com/writing/does-anyone-actually-read-my-prds): Spoiler Alert: only if they're short, funny, or spark heated debates in Slack.
- [PID #1: Is Product Dead or Evolving?](https://productisdead.com/writing/is-product-dead-or-evolving): Can AI replace the human touch in creating impactful products?