Most PMs use AI like a search engine: one vague question, one generic answer, close the tab. This course teaches the opposite motion: treating Claude like a sharp junior PM who drafts, and you direct.
The three jobs Claude is great at
- Structuring mess: turning call notes, Slack threads and founder rants into briefs with named sections.
- First drafts: PRDs, user stories, launch notes: 70% quality in 2 minutes, which you edit to 95%.
- Critique: attacking your own spec for gaps, edge cases and untested assumptions before engineering does.
Try this now
You are a senior product manager. Here are my raw notes about a feature idea: [paste notes]. Extract: the target user, their pain, the promise, what's in scope, what's explicitly out of scope, and 3 open questions I haven't answered.
Always give Claude a role and an output format. "You are a senior PM… extract into these 6 sections" beats "summarize this" every time.