Foundations
Build the first useful version on a real piece of work.
BUILD / BUILDER
Build an AI-Powered Product
Turn an AI product idea into a bounded product slice with real users, authority and failure states. Define what the AI is allowed to do, design the non-AI product around it, build a working vertical slice and test whether the feature creates value beyond an impressive demo.
Lab pickBuild somethingProven in the Lab
Founders building a first AI-enabled product or featureProduct managers turning AI concepts into implementable scopeAI-assisted builders who need product discipline around generated code
Advanced Pack
Turn it into a repeatable system with deeper implementation, reusable assets and harder operating decisions. Free during Early Access.
Final Lab
Test the capability in a practical scenario when you want another round.
YOU'LL LEAVE WITH
A result you can take back to real work.
A working vertical slice of an AI-powered product with explicit user job, AI authority, data/context flow, failure behavior, evaluation and deployment plan.
Turn one AI idea into a buildable vertical slice
Define the user job, AI responsibility, authority, inputs/outputs and failure behavior, then build one end-to-end candidate instead of a disconnected model demo.
Make the slice testable and production-shaped
Add evaluation, structured outputs, cost/latency controls, persistence, observability, model/version boundaries, safety gates and a release decision based on evidence.
WHAT ADVANCED ADDS
Take the method back to real work.
Advanced includes reusable artifacts, decision rules and implementation material designed to keep working after you close the Path.
AI Product Slice Brief
A bounded spec for user job, trigger, inputs, AI task, authority, outputs, fallback, data and measurable success before building the whole product.
Authority & Failure Matrix
A practical classification of suggest/draft/decide/act plus failure consequences and required human or deterministic checks.
Evaluation Set template
A small real-example test set with expected qualities, failure labels and regressions that lets the team compare product behavior across model/prompt changes.
PATH MAP
Build the first version. Then make it operational.
Foundations takes you through the first useful result. Advanced adds the implementation depth, harder cases and operating discipline needed to reuse it.
- 01Define the User Job Before the AI FeatureFree
- 02Bound the AI RoleFree
- 03Map Inputs, Context and OutputFree
- 04Design the Failure StateFree
- 05Build One Vertical SliceFree
- 01Create a Real Evaluation SetAdvanced
- 02Structure the AI ContractAdvanced
- 03Control Cost and LatencyAdvanced
- 04Persist Generation StateAdvanced
- 05Observe Product BehaviorAdvanced
- 06Make the Release DecisionAdvanced
The Demo-to-Product Gap
An AI prototype looks magical on curated examples but has unclear authority, expensive calls and ugly failure states. Turn it into a product slice you would let real users touch.
Complete Advanced, take on the scenario if you want to test the capability, and pass it to create a lightweight shareable record of the result.
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