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14 posts · since 2026
Product Craft·7 min·Mar 2026

How 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.

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Product Craft·7 min·Mar 2026

What 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.

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Product Craft·7 min·Mar 2026

The 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.

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Product Craft·7 min·Mar 2026

Why solo founders ship the wrong things

The signal is usually there. The problem is what happens to it between arriving and becoming a decision.

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Product Craft·8 min·Mar 2026

The 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.

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Product Craft·12 min·Mar 2026

How 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.

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Product update·10 min·Feb 2026

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.

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Product Craft·9 min·Apr 2026

AI 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.

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Product Craft·8 min·Apr 2026

Using 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.

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Product Craft·7 min·Apr 2026

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.

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