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How to use Claude Projects and Skills to Monitor your Product’s Health
🧠 New year, new systems. A step-by-step guide to building a reusable product health system with Claude Projects and Skills. Knowledge Series #96
 • Rich Holmes
How to test a new AI Model to get up to speed with its capabilities quickly
🧠 And why “Model Sense” is being described as the new “Product Sense” . Knowledge Series #95
 • Rich Holmes
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Explained - a simple guide for product teams to get up to speed quickly
🧠 Tactics, terminology and tools for navigating AI Search. Knowledge Series #94
 • Rich Holmes
How to use Claude Code for non-engineering use cases
🧠 Claude Code without the Code: Agents for PRDs, Jira tickets, SEO analysis, creating a second brain, editing spreadsheets and more. Knowledge Series…
 • Rich Holmes
How to Identify Opportunities for AI Automation - a Framework for Product Teams
If automation is AI’s superpower, when and where should you use it? Figuring out what to automate and why. Knowledge Series #93
 • Rich Holmes
The AI Playground: 10 new ways to get hands-on experience at work
🧠 Gemini 3.0 for learning and vibe coding, Claude customer persona research cards, Agentic browsing for job applications, Technical architecture…
 • Rich Holmes
What is parallel AI agent coding? An in-depth guide for product teams
🧠 “A recipe for insane development speed”. Why tech leaders at Chrome, Cursor and more believe this is the next big shift in software development…
 • Rich Holmes
How to do AI-powered product discovery sprints
🧠Your ultimate guide to running super fast product discovery with the help of AI tools. Market analysis, user research, testing assumptions and more.
 • Rich Holmes
What are Claude Skills and how can you use them for product-related work?
🧠 “Maybe bigger than MCP”. Build product metric spreadsheets, automate your product development cycle and more. Knowledge Series #89
 • Rich Holmes
What is ACP? Agentic Commerce Protocol from Stripe and OpenAI Explained
🧠 What it is, how it works, why it matters to product teams. Your guide to the essentials. Knowledge Series #88.
 • Rich Holmes
Practical ways to use MCP at work
🧠 Market analysis, create design-grade prototypes, test your product’s APIs, build your own Chief of Staff and more…
 • Rich Holmes
Agentic Workflows Explained - an in-depth but simple guide for Product Teams
🧠 Google’s AI Product Leader says this is one of the essential new skills for PMs that less than 75 people in the world have. Knowledge Series #86
 • Rich Holmes
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