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Product Discovery 15 min

PRD First Drafts

Use AI to draft structure while keeping product judgment with the PM.

Learning Objectives

  • Create a PRD skeleton.
  • Make assumptions explicit.
  • Define non-goals and success metrics.

Use AI for structure, not product judgment

A PRD draft is helpful when it organizes context and surfaces tradeoffs. It is harmful when it invents certainty.

Ask the model to include problem, user, goals, non-goals, requirements, risks, assumptions, and success metrics. Non-goals are important because AI tends to expand scope unless you ask it to constrain.

Human-owned decisions

  • Which user matters most
  • What tradeoff is acceptable
  • Which risks are worth taking
  • What success metric is meaningful
  • What should be excluded

Use the first draft as a thinking aid. The PM owns the final call.

Examples

Scope control

A useful PRD prompt asks for non-goals before requirements so the model does not expand scope by default.

Practice Exercise

Draft a concise PRD

Paste feature context and ask for a first draft with assumptions, non-goals, risks, and success metrics.

  • Non-goals are explicit.
  • Risks include mitigation ideas.
  • Assumptions are labeled.

Mini Prompt Templates

PRD Draft

Context: [FEATURE_CONTEXT]
Task: Draft a concise PRD.
Format: Problem, User, Goals, Non-goals, Requirements, Risks, Success Metrics.
Constraints: Flag assumptions explicitly.
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