market-driven-feedback-synthesis
Installation
SKILL.md
Overview
A "10x Product Manager" achieves high leverage not through execution efficiency, but by finding reliable, differentiated value that the company can uniquely deliver. This skill shifts your focus "outside the building" by creating a Feedback River—a continuous flow of customer, competitor, and market data—and using AI to identify where your current strategy fails to meet market reality.
The Framework
1. Build the "Feedback River"
Surround yourself with a constant flow of raw qualitative and quantitative data. A great PM should spend 80% of their mental energy thinking about things outside the building.
- Source Mix: Aggregated customer interviews, Gong/sales calls, NPS comments, support tickets, and competitor public positioning documents.
- The Nielsen Rule: Stop at the sweet spot. Interviewing fewer than 7 people provides insufficient data; more than 14 leads to diminishing returns. Aim for 7-14 high-quality interactions per research cycle.
2. AI-Driven "Antithesis" Analysis
Most PMs use AI to confirm their existing beliefs. To find an "edge," use LLMs to find the counter-factual.
- The "Not" Prompt: Feed your strategy and raw customer transcripts into an LLM.
- Instruction: "Based on these 10 customer interviews, identify exactly where my current product strategy DOES NOT fit what these customers are asking for. Highlight the gaps, the friction points, and the unmet needs my strategy ignores."
- Competitor Reverse-Engineering: Feed a competitor's public documentation or pricing pages into an LLM.
- Instruction: "Summarize the underlying business rules and strategy this competitor is likely following. Based on the customer feedback I provided, is their strategy a better fit for the market than mine? Why?"