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On AI-native product development, feedback loops, specs and shipping.
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Feb 2026 · Product update
I spent nearly 20 years building spreadsheets. Then I automated them.
For two decades, I synthesised customer signal in spreadsheets because nothing else went far enough. Then AI made building cheap — and exposed the layer that had always been missing.
Mar 2026 · Product update
The whole team, one direction
Projects, Ask Circuit, multi-language support, a free plan. March was about making Circuit work for teams — organised, unified and moving in the same direction.
Apr 2026 · Product update
What product intelligence becomes
Three layers. Voice, behaviour, ambient. Layer 01 is live. Here's where product intelligence goes from here.
How to close the loop on customer feedback
Somewhere in your backlog is a feature a customer asked for six months ago. You built it. They never found out. Here's how to fix that.
Apr 2026·7 min readUsing Cursor and Claude Code with a product management system
AI coding tools are fast. The quality of output is proportional to the quality of context. Here's how to connect customer feedback to your editor via MCP.
Apr 2026·8 min readAI product management tools in 2026: a comparison
Most tools use AI somewhere in the pipeline. Few cover the whole loop. A comparison of what's available, organised by where each tool fits.
Apr 2026·9 min readHow to turn customer feedback into build-ready specs
AI coding tools are fast. The missing piece is knowing what to build — and having a spec ready when the AI asks.
Mar 2026·12 min readThe bottleneck moved
AI coding tools changed the build economics. The constraint shifted from engineering to product decisions — and most teams haven't caught up yet.
Mar 2026·8 min readWhy solo founders ship the wrong things
The signal is usually there. The problem is what happens to it between arriving and becoming a decision.
Mar 2026·7 min readThe first time you don't have to stop
Good enough and shipped always beat perfect and not live. That principle hasn't changed. What changed is where the ceiling is.
Mar 2026·7 min readWhat good product specs look like now
The PRD format had everything except the thing that mattered. A good spec is a precisely framed human problem, with the context to act on it immediately.
Mar 2026·7 min readHow to prioritise a product backlog without a meeting
The prioritisation process hasn't changed. What's changed is how long it takes. You no longer need a meeting to get to the answer.
Mar 2026·7 min read