Looking for PM prompts? This free library contains 50 original AI prompts for product managers, organized across discovery, strategy, PRDs, prioritization, roadmaps, launches, growth and leadership. They work with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
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Discovery & research prompts
1. Turn raw interview notes into evidence-backed insights
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to turn raw interview notes into evidence-backed insights. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: [PASTE NOTES], research goal, participant segment, interview date. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Separate observations from interpretations; produce themes, supporting excerpts, contradictions, unmet needs and follow-up questions. Finish with a confidence rating and evidence-gap list.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
2. Design a customer interview guide
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to design a customer interview guide. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: research question, target segment, known assumptions, interview length. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create a neutral opening, behavior-based questions, probes and closing; flag leading questions. Finish with a bias audit.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
3. Build a jobs-to-be-done analysis
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to build a jobs-to-be-done analysis. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: customer situation, struggle, current workaround, desired outcome. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Produce job statement, functional/emotional/social dimensions, forces of progress and testable hypotheses. Finish with questions needed to validate each hypothesis.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
4. Synthesize support tickets without flattening minority pain
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to synthesize support tickets without flattening minority pain. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: [PASTE TICKETS], customer tier, product area, time window. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Cluster issues, quantify only from supplied data, retain outliers and map severity, frequency and business impact. Finish with a traceability table back to source IDs.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
5. Create a survey that measures a decision
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a survey that measures a decision. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: decision to make, audience, hypotheses, sample constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Draft concise questions, response scales, branching logic and an analysis plan. Finish with a survey-bias and privacy check.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
6. Map a customer journey
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to map a customer journey. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: persona evidence, trigger, current steps, channels and known pain points. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create stages, jobs, actions, emotions, friction, evidence, opportunities and measurable signals. Finish with the three riskiest assumptions.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
7. Plan a usability test
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to plan a usability test. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: prototype or flow, target user, critical tasks, session duration. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create task scenarios, moderator script, success criteria, observation sheet and synthesis rubric. Finish with a checklist preventing coaching or leading.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
8. Analyze churn evidence
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to analyze churn evidence. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: cancellation reasons, usage data summary, interviews and plan type. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Separate causes from correlations; identify patterns, segments, preventable triggers and experiments. Finish with confidence and data limitations.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
9. Turn sales calls into product signals
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to turn sales calls into product signals. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: [PASTE CALL NOTES], deal stage, segment, lost/won status. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Extract problems, objections, requested capabilities, urgency and evidence strength without treating every request as roadmap truth. Finish with a signal-versus-noise table.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
10. Create a continuous discovery cadence
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a continuous discovery cadence. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: team capacity, customer access, decisions ahead and research backlog. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Propose weekly activities, recruitment, repository structure, roles and decision gates. Finish with a 30-day adoption plan.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
Strategy & market prompts
11. Draft a product strategy that makes explicit choices
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to draft a product strategy that makes explicit choices. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: company goal, target customer, market evidence, capabilities and constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Write diagnosis, target segment, value proposition, advantage, strategic pillars, non-goals and measurable outcomes. Finish with a coherence test linking every initiative to the strategy.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
12. Stress-test a product vision
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to stress-test a product vision. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: vision statement, customer evidence, market change and company strengths. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Challenge desirability, feasibility, viability, differentiation and durability from optimistic and skeptical perspectives. Finish with a revised vision and invalidation conditions.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
13. Create a competitor analysis based only on supplied evidence
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a competitor analysis based only on supplied evidence. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: competitor URLs or notes, customer segment and buying criteria. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Compare positioning, workflow, strengths, gaps, switching costs and likely countermoves; distinguish facts from inference. Finish with an evidence-citation matrix.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
14. Define an ideal customer profile
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to define an ideal customer profile. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: customer data, best accounts, churned accounts, use cases and economics. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Produce firmographic/behavioral traits, pains, triggers, exclusions, qualification questions and confidence. Finish with tests that could falsify the ICP.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
15. Model strategic options
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to model strategic options. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: decision, constraints, current position and three candidate directions. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Compare options using customer value, strategic fit, defensibility, cost, time-to-learning and reversibility. Finish with a recommendation with explicit trade-offs.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
16. Write an opportunity-solution tree
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to write an opportunity-solution tree. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: desired outcome, research evidence and current ideas. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Map opportunities in customer language, sub-opportunities, solutions and assumption tests. Finish with gaps where evidence is insufficient.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
17. Create a platform strategy
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a platform strategy. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: ecosystem participants, core transaction, data assets, integrations and risks. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Define sides, value exchange, cold-start approach, governance, incentives and network-effect metrics. Finish with abuse and dependency risks.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
18. Evaluate build, buy or partner
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to evaluate build, buy or partner. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: capability, strategic importance, urgency, vendors, cost ranges and team capacity. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create weighted criteria, scenario analysis, hidden costs, lock-in risks and recommendation. Finish with conditions that would reverse the decision.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
19. Prepare a market-entry brief
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to prepare a market-entry brief. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: new market, target segment, evidence, regulations, channels and constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Cover demand, localization, competition, distribution, operations, risks, staged entry and success gates. Finish with a pre-mortem.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
20. Translate company goals into product outcomes
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to translate company goals into product outcomes. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: company objectives, baseline metrics, customer problems and constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create outcome tree with leading/lagging indicators, owner, cadence and guardrails. Finish with a check against output-only metrics.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
PRDs & execution prompts
21. Write an evidence-led PRD
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to write an evidence-led PRD. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: feature concept, customer evidence, business goal, constraints and dependencies. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Include problem, users, evidence, outcomes, non-goals, scope, user flows, requirements, edge cases, analytics, rollout and open questions. Finish with a requirement-to-evidence traceability table.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
22. Turn a vague request into a crisp problem brief
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to turn a vague request into a crisp problem brief. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: stakeholder request, user evidence, business context and deadline. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Separate requested solution from underlying problem; define affected users, current behavior, impact, constraints and next discovery step. Finish with a list of assumptions requiring validation.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
23. Write testable user stories
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to write testable user stories. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: workflow, actors, business rules, edge cases and accessibility needs. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Produce stories with acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then form, dependencies and negative cases. Finish with a testability and ambiguity audit.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
24. Plan an MVP without disguising low quality as minimal
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to plan an MVP without disguising low quality as minimal. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: target outcome, riskiest assumptions, deadline, team capacity and constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Define smallest learning loop, must-have experience, exclusions, instrumentation, quality bar and exit criteria. Finish with what the MVP cannot prove.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
25. Create a release plan
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a release plan. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: scope, environments, dependencies, users, risk level and target date. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Build phased rollout, readiness criteria, owners, communications, monitoring, rollback and support plan. Finish with go/no-go questions.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
26. Run a pre-mortem
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to run a pre-mortem. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: initiative, plan, dependencies, assumptions and organizational context. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Assume failure; identify plausible causes across customer, product, technical, legal, operational and adoption risks. Finish with ranked mitigations with owners and trigger signals.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
27. Design product analytics instrumentation
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to design product analytics instrumentation. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: user journey, decisions, existing events, privacy rules and tools. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create event taxonomy, properties, identity rules, funnels, quality checks and dashboards tied to decisions. Finish with a data-governance checklist.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
28. Triage a backlog
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to triage a backlog. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: backlog items, strategy, customer evidence, effort estimates and constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Classify by outcome, evidence, urgency, risk and dependency; identify duplicates and stale items. Finish with recommended keep, discover, defer and remove decisions.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
29. Prepare sprint goals from outcomes
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to prepare sprint goals from outcomes. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: roadmap outcome, candidate work, capacity, dependencies and risks. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Draft a single sprint goal, supporting work, exclusions, success evidence and contingency scope. Finish with a check that the goal is not merely a task list.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
30. Write a decision record
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to write a decision record. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: decision, alternatives, evidence, constraints, participants and date. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Document context, criteria, alternatives, decision, trade-offs, risks, dissent and revisit trigger. Finish with a concise stakeholder summary.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
Prioritization & roadmaps prompts
31. Prioritize opportunities with RICE without false precision
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to prioritize opportunities with RICE without false precision. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: opportunities, reach evidence, impact assumptions, confidence and effort ranges. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Calculate transparent ranges, show sensitivity, flag weak inputs and compare qualitative strategic factors. Finish with a recommendation robust to uncertainty.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
32. Build a now-next-later roadmap
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to build a now-next-later roadmap. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: strategy, desired outcomes, evidence, dependencies and capacity. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Organize outcome-led bets with rationale, learning milestones, confidence and explicit non-commitment language. Finish with roadmap risks and review cadence.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
33. Compare prioritization frameworks
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to compare prioritization frameworks. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: decision context, portfolio size, data quality, governance and urgency. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Recommend RICE, WSJF, Kano, opportunity scoring or weighted scoring; explain fit and failure modes. Finish with a worked example using supplied inputs.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
34. Evaluate a feature request
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to evaluate a feature request. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: request, requester, evidence, segment, strategy, technical context and alternatives. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Assess problem strength, frequency, strategic alignment, revenue risk, opportunity cost and solution alternatives. Finish with discovery or delivery recommendation.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
35. Create a portfolio allocation model
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a portfolio allocation model. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: strategic horizons, budget, teams, obligations and risk tolerance. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Allocate capacity across core, growth, bets, reliability and compliance with ranges and rationale. Finish with scenario changes for upside and downside.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
36. Facilitate roadmap trade-offs
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to facilitate roadmap trade-offs. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: candidate initiatives, constraints, stakeholder positions and company goals. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create neutral agenda, shared criteria, option matrix, decision rules and unresolved tensions. Finish with a decision log template.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
37. Identify roadmap dependencies
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to identify roadmap dependencies. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: initiatives, systems, teams, vendors and milestones. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Map hard/soft dependencies, critical path, coordination risk, sequencing options and decoupling opportunities. Finish with early-warning indicators.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
38. Create outcome-based milestones
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create outcome-based milestones. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: initiative, baseline, target outcome, hypotheses and delivery constraints. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Define learning, adoption, behavior and business milestones with evidence required at each gate. Finish with kill, pivot or scale criteria.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
39. Audit a roadmap for strategy drift
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to audit a roadmap for strategy drift. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: roadmap, strategy, customer evidence, commitments and capacity. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Trace every item to outcomes, find orphan work, overloaded periods and hidden maintenance. Finish with specific cuts and questions for leadership.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
40. Prepare a roadmap narrative
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to prepare a roadmap narrative. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: audience, strategy, evidence, outcomes, sequencing and uncertainty. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Write an executive narrative explaining choices, trade-offs, confidence and what changed. Finish with likely objections and concise responses.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
Launch, growth & leadership prompts
41. Create a product launch plan
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a product launch plan. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: product, audience, positioning, channels, readiness, date and budget. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Cover audience, message, enablement, content, lifecycle communications, operations, metrics and owners. Finish with launch gates and rollback plan.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
42. Define activation and aha moments
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to define activation and aha moments. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: product behavior data, interviews, value proposition and retention cohorts. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Generate candidate activation events, evidence, time-to-value, friction and experiments. Finish with a plan to validate causal relevance.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
43. Design an ethical onboarding experiment
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to design an ethical onboarding experiment. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: new-user journey, drop-off data, segment, constraints and guardrails. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Propose hypothesis, variants, success metrics, guardrails, sample assumptions and analysis. Finish with dark-pattern and accessibility review.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
44. Write a positioning brief
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to write a positioning brief. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: target customer, alternatives, unique capability, proof and category. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Create positioning statement, value pillars, evidence, objections, message hierarchy and excluded claims. Finish with claims needing substantiation.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
45. Analyze a funnel
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to analyze a funnel. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: stage counts or rates, segment, time period, instrumentation notes and changes. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Find largest credible opportunities, distinguish measurement issues, segment effects and behavioral hypotheses. Finish with ranked experiments with expected learning.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
46. Prepare a stakeholder update
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to prepare a stakeholder update. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: audience, goal, progress, evidence, risks, decisions and asks. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Write an executive-first update with outcomes, changes, confidence, risks, decisions and owners. Finish with a version under 150 words.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
47. Handle conflicting stakeholder requests
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to handle conflicting stakeholder requests. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: requests, goals, evidence, authority, constraints and deadlines. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Map underlying interests, shared outcomes, conflicts, options and decision process. Finish with a neutral meeting script.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
48. Run a product retrospective
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to run a product retrospective. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: goal, result, timeline, incidents, feedback and team observations. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Separate outcomes, process and luck; identify wins, misses, root causes and experiments. Finish with owners and due dates without blame.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
49. Coach a product manager through a decision
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Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to coach a product manager through a decision. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: decision, evidence, options, constraints and personal concerns. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Ask diagnostic questions first, then provide frameworks and challenge reasoning without taking ownership away. Finish with a decision-quality checklist.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
50. Create a 30-60-90 day PM plan
Copy/paste prompt
Act as a senior practitioner. Your task is to create a 30-60-90 day PM plan. Context: [PRODUCT/PROJECT], [CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER], [BUSINESS MODEL], [STAGE], [MARKET]. Use these inputs: role level, product stage, team, company priorities and known challenges. State assumptions and identify missing evidence before proceeding. Do not invent customer facts, market data, dates or metrics. Structure learning, relationships, product understanding, early wins, operating cadence and measurable outcomes. Finish with anti-goals that prevent premature solutioning.
Best used when: you can supply real evidence and need a decision-ready artifact, not generic brainstorming.
Frequently asked questions
What does “PM prompts” mean?
PM can mean product manager or project manager. This page focuses on product management. See our project-management prompt library for delivery, risk and stakeholder workflows.
Which AI tools can use these prompts?
The templates are model-agnostic and can be adapted for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and similar assistants. Outputs vary by model and by the evidence you provide.
Can AI replace a product manager?
No. AI can accelerate synthesis and drafting, but product judgment, customer accountability, privacy review and business decisions remain human responsibilities.
How are these better than one-line prompts?
They specify the objective, real inputs, constraints, output structure and a verification step. That makes the result easier to inspect and reuse.
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