How to build a Strategy Thought Partner Grounded in Product Frameworks with Claude Code

🧠 A new tool grounded in over 25 frameworks like the Kano Model, Jobs to be done, Pre-mortems, Porter’s Five Forces and more.

Earlier this month, Adobe’s former Chief Product Officer warned that “cognitive offloading” where we outsource critical tasks to AI is eroding our thinking abilities. Instead, he argues that “cognitive expansion” where we use AI as a thought partner to develop our thinking, is a better way to use AI in the long term at work.

In this Knowledge Series, we’re going to take that principle and build a product strategy thought partner you can use at work. This tool lets you run ideas past structured frameworks, stress-test decisions, and evaluate new features in a conversation – so you’re working with AI to think more clearly, not asking it to think for you.

The product strategy thought partner is grounded in over 25 practical, real world frameworks like the Kano Model, Jobs to be done, Pre-mortems, Porter’s Five Forces and more.

Once you’ve stepped through the different parts of the framework and your strategic analysis is complete, you can generate a visual asset and use it in presentations or elsewhere.

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The Knowledge Series

Here’s what we’ll build together:

The Strategy Thought Partner builds upon the tool we created in a previous Knowledge Series which allows you to stress-test features against a panel of user personas.

Now, you can import feature ideas and run them through multiple different frameworks at once to analyze them across different lenses.

The frameworks library has over 25 different product frameworks and tools you can use split across 6 distinct categories including:

• Discovery

• Strategy

• Prioritization

• Delivery

• Decision making

These include things like Opportunity Scoring, MosCow, North Star Metrics, Impact / Effort matrices and more.

If you’re not sure what framework to use, it also includes a framework recommendation feature which lets you describe your situation or decision you’re trying to make and picks the top 3 most practically applicable frameworks:

The strategy thought partner uses your selected framework to ground your conversation and walk through its core components. Once the analysis is complete, you can generate visual assets from the session that you can reuse elsewhere.

In this Knowledge Series, you’ll get:

• a pre-built version of this app

• step by step instructions and prompts you can use to create your own version in Claude Code.

Getting set up