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measuring-product-market-fit applies sean ellis survey methodology and retention curves to help founders distinguish genuine product-market fit from vanity metrics across four maturity levels.

problem-definition guides users through articulating problems clearly rather than jumping to solutions, using frameworks and diagnostic questions to uncover struggling moments, validate urgency, and avoid solution-first thinking.

ai-evals helps users build systematic evaluation frameworks for AI products by designing rubrics, test cases, and scoring criteria aligned with user needs rather than just technical metrics.

writing-prds helps teams structure product requirements by leading with problem context, defining success metrics upfront, and matching format (docs, prototypes, evals) to product type. draws on frameworks from 11 product leaders.

running-offsites provides framework-based guidance for planning team retreats and strategy sessions, emphasizing purpose clarity, team readiness assessment, structural design, and logistics. covers remote-first quarterly in-person bursts and calls out common pitfalls like overpacked agendas.

designing-growth-loops helps structure viral and product-led acquisition by categorizing loop types, identifying sharing moments, and applying compounding principles drawn from practitioner experience.

planning-under-uncertainty guides product teams through ambiguous futures using adaptive frameworks. covers uncertainty diagnosis, decision triggers, and flexibility patterns drawn from 44 product leaders. avoids over-planning and analysis paralysis.

technical-roadmaps guides users through structured roadmap creation using the Rumelt framework (diagnosis, guiding policies, actions) and emphasizes documentation as a prerequisite for strategy alignment and iteration.

sales-compensation provides lightweight guidance on designing sales comp plans through business model assessment, problem identification, and incentive alignment. references two product leaders but lacks procedural depth and decision frameworks.

written-communication — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users make better decisions between competing options. Use when someone is weighing pros and cons, comparing alternatives, struggling with a difficult…

Help users build and scale product operations functions. Use when someone is scaling a product team, struggling with cross-functional coordination, needs to…

writing-specs-designs — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users develop product taste and intuition. Use when someone wants to improve their product judgment, struggles to evaluate design quality, needs to make…

Help users build and grow product communities. Use when someone is starting a community, scaling an ambassador program, driving community-led growth, or…

Help users conduct effective usability testing. Use when someone is planning user tests, designing prototype validation, preparing usability studies, or trying…

Help users build effective AI applications. Use when someone is building with LLMs, writing prompts, designing AI features, implementing RAG, creating agents,…

Help users implement product-led sales motions. Use when someone is transitioning from pure PLG to sales-assisted, defining PQLs, building sales handoff…

Help users design effective surveys. Use when someone is creating customer surveys, NPS measurements, product-market fit surveys, or feedback collection…

Help users improve retention and engagement metrics. Use when someone is dealing with churn, optimizing activation flows, building habit-forming products, or…

Help users understand and build design engineering capabilities. Use when someone is creating a design engineering function, hiring design engineers, or…

Help users navigate career changes and pivots. Use when someone is considering a new role, transitioning into product management, evaluating job offers, taking…

Help users run better customer and user interviews. Use when someone is preparing for user research, planning discovery interviews, writing interview…

Help users plan and execute product launches. Use when someone is planning a product launch, preparing PR outreach, coordinating a go-to-market campaign,…

Help users design and optimize pricing strategies. Use when someone is setting prices for the first time, considering freemium vs paid models, optimizing…

Help users design effective product onboarding. Use when someone is creating first-user experiences, trying to improve activation rates, designing the first 30…

Help users synthesize and act on customer feedback. Use when someone is analyzing NPS responses, processing support tickets, reviewing user research,…

design-systems — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users navigate enterprise sales. Use when someone is closing large deals, managing complex buying committees, handling procurement, or converting PLG…

Help users prioritize product roadmaps and backlogs. Use when someone is deciding what to build next, sequencing features, allocating resources across…

Help users create compelling product visions. Use when someone is writing a vision statement, defining a long-term product direction, aligning teams on the…

Help users qualify sales leads effectively. Use when someone is wasting time on bad leads, struggling with low conversion rates, needs to build a qualification…

Help users set effective OKRs and goals. Use when someone is creating quarterly objectives, defining key results, setting team goals, planning annual targets,…

behavioral-product-design — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users think in systems and understand complex dynamics. Use when someone is dealing with multi-stakeholder problems, trying to understand second-order…

Help users craft product positioning and messaging. Use when someone is launching a product, differentiating from competitors, writing marketing copy,…

founder-sales — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users create and deliver compelling presentations. Use when someone is preparing a talk, building a slide deck, dealing with presentation anxiety,…

Help users define AI product strategy. Use when someone is building an AI product, deciding where to apply AI in their product, planning an AI roadmap,…

Help users generate and evaluate startup ideas. Use when someone is brainstorming business ideas, trying to find a startup concept, evaluating whether an idea…

Help users build software using AI coding tools. Use when someone is using AI to generate code, building prototypes without deep technical skills, or exploring…

Help users build content marketing strategies. Use when someone is starting a blog, building SEO, creating thought leadership content, or deciding on content…

Help users craft compelling brand narratives. Use when someone is defining brand strategy, writing company positioning, creating pitch narratives, developing…

Help users understand and respond to competition. Use when someone is positioning against competitors, evaluating market threats, running competitive war…

Help users manage their time and tasks more effectively. Use when someone is overwhelmed with work, struggling with focus, trying to balance multiple…

team-rituals — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users build and manage marketplace liquidity. Use when someone is working on a marketplace business, struggling with supply/demand balance, trying to…

Help users ship products faster and with higher quality. Use when someone is planning a launch, struggling to release features, dealing with shipping velocity…

Help users write effective job descriptions. Use when someone is creating a job posting, defining a new role, preparing to hire, or trying to attract the right…

Help users work through feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Use when someone feels like a fraud, doubts their qualifications, is anxious about being "found…

Help users apply the working backwards methodology. Use when someone is defining a new product, writing a PR/FAQ, planning from a future state, or trying to…

Help users build relationships with journalists and get press coverage. Use when someone is pitching reporters, preparing for media outreach, trying to get…

Help users decide when and how to pivot their startup. Use when someone is questioning their current direction, seeing poor traction, considering a major…

Help users run effective one-on-one meetings. Use when someone is a new manager setting up 1:1s, struggling to make 1:1s productive, wants to improve career…

Help users define their North Star metric. Use when someone is choosing their primary success metric, trying to align the team around a key measure, struggling…

Help users work effectively with their manager and executives. Use when someone is struggling with their manager relationship, needs to influence leadership,…

running-effective-meetings — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users build relationships with mentors and sponsors for career growth. Use when someone is looking for career guidance, wants to find a mentor, needs an…

dogfooding — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users build and maintain strong team culture. Use when someone is defining team values, creating psychological safety, onboarding to a new team,…

stakeholder-alignment — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users get promoted at work. Use when someone is preparing for a promotion conversation, building their case for advancement, trying to understand what's…

Help users build strong engineering culture. Use when someone is improving developer experience, fostering technical excellence, designing engineering…

Help users transform organizations toward modern product practices. Use when someone is trying to shift from feature teams to product teams, introduce…

Help users onboard new team members effectively. Use when someone is planning onboarding for a new hire, starting a new job themselves, designing a…

Help users negotiate job offers and compensation. Use when someone is negotiating salary, equity, or other terms of a job offer, preparing for a compensation…

Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs.…

Help users set and hit realistic deadlines. Use when someone is planning project timelines, struggling to hit deadlines, dealing with timeline pressure from…

Help users build strategic partnerships and business development deals. Use when someone is pursuing a partnership, negotiating a BD deal, working with…

delegating-work — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users evaluate emerging technologies. Use when someone is assessing new tools, making build vs buy decisions, evaluating AI vendors, or deciding on…

Help users run effective design reviews and critiques. Use when someone is giving design feedback, establishing design review processes, struggling to evaluate…

Help users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation,…

scoping-cutting — an installable skill for AI agents, published by refoundai/lenny-skills.

Help users develop and coach product managers. Use when someone is managing PMs, creating development plans, running performance reviews, or trying to level up…

Help users build and scale their sales organization. Use when someone is hiring their first salespeople, deciding when to bring on sales leadership,…

Help users manage their energy for sustained performance. Use when someone is feeling burned out, trying to find their zone of genius, scheduling for…

Help users run effective post-mortems and retrospectives. Use when someone is reviewing a project that succeeded or failed, wants to establish learning…

Help users run effective decision-making processes. Use when someone is facing a high-stakes decision, dealing with analysis paralysis, needs to align…

Help users make better hiring decisions. Use when someone is evaluating job candidates, making hiring decisions, conducting reference checks, reviewing work…

Help users work effectively across functions. Use when someone is navigating PM-engineering relationships, resolving cross-team conflicts, building product…

Help users design effective organizational structures. Use when someone is thinking about team structure, deciding between functional vs. divisional models,…

Help founders raise capital and build investor relationships. Use when someone is preparing a pitch deck, deciding whether to raise venture capital, meeting…

Help users build and scale internal platforms and technical infrastructure. Use when someone is deciding whether to build vs buy tooling, designing developer…

Help users conduct effective hiring interviews. Use when someone is designing an interview loop, crafting interview questions, evaluating candidates in…

Help users design and execute platform business strategies. Use when someone is building a marketplace, creating an ecosystem, deciding on API strategy,…