Field Notes
The only PM blog written by someone who still ships code every week. Failed experiments included. Agent recipes you can fork.
The CFO Conversation: Defending a 20-Point Margin Drop
The single most important conversation of the entire pricing migration. The script, the part that almost didn't land, and the seven leading indicators.
Field Report: What Broke When We Killed Our Per-Seat Tier
Migration drift, an unexpected churning cohort, a unit definition that broke at scale, dispute volume at 12x projection. After-action from the sunset day.
Kill the Feature Request Queue. Your Backlog Is a Signal, Not a Command.
Your 847-item backlog is a rationing artifact from when engineering was scarce. Three replacements: signal synthesis, prototype-first investigation, and an outcome bet ledger.
The PM-to-CPO Bridge in 2026
Most PM-to-CPO advice is generic. The 2026 CPO seat demands business-model literacy, agent fleet operations, and public strategic posture. The 12-month track.
Direction Dashboard Agent
Compiles seven leading indicators every morning, predicts outcomes 4-8 weeks ahead, runs a weekly Goodhart audit. Direction at AI-native velocity.
Outcome Accountability Is a Luxury Good. Measure Direction.
Outcome-driven roadmaps assume 6-12 month measurement cycles. Agents iterate ten times a week. The dual-cadence direction-metric system that closes the gap.
Field Report: 90 Days Inside a SaaS-to-Agents Transition
What we believed, what we did, what broke, what we changed. An anonymized after-action report from the first 90 days of a $30M ARR cannibalization.
Continuous Discovery Doesn't Scale for AI-Native Products
Teresa Torres' continuous discovery is the right answer for human-centric SaaS and the wrong answer for agent products. The punctuated discovery alternative.
Renewal Risk Agent for Migration Cohorts
Catches the accounts whose operational dashboard says fine but whose qualitative signals say otherwise. Three-dimension scoring, 90 days before renewal.
The Jevons Cliff in Outcome Pricing
Inference costs drop 50% per year. Your $0.50/resolution price is a moving target. Hold or pass? The framework nobody has published until now.
Kill the APM Program. Hire, Train, Promote Builders.
LinkedIn's CPO killed the APM program. Here's the 12-week Product Builder apprenticeship that replaces it: four prototypes, one production ship, named tools, no rotation.
Margin Watch Agent
Tracks gross margin per outcome daily, classifies compression cause, and forecasts the Jevons cliff. Pricing reviews stop being post-mortems.
The Pricing Migration Sequence: An 18-Month Quarterly Playbook
Per-seat is dying, but it pays your payroll. The quarter-by-quarter playbook for moving $20M ARR to hybrid outcome pricing without crashing NRR.
Board Narrative Drafter Agent
The most expensive document in product management compiled while you sleep. Quarterly board updates from data sources, comp set, and last quarter's narrative.
The AI Noise Tax. Three Patterns Killing Product Credibility.
Three AI patterns I'm done with: LinkedIn 'Claude superpowers' posts, SaaS apps with bolted-on AI sidebars, and PMs claiming prototyping kills empathy.
The Triad Is Dead. Pods Are Dead. Agent Departments Now.
Forrester still talks about human-with-agent teams. Wrong unit. Agents form their own departments and interface with human departments on exception.
The Dual Transformation Operating Model
Two clocks, one product org. Run a legacy SaaS on a six-week rhythm and an agent-native successor on a one-week rhythm without tearing the team apart.
Pricing Migration Tracker Agent
Watches every account on the migration plan daily, classifies drift type, and recommends a specific intervention. Catch quiet drifters in week one, not week six.