The Product Gryz — Issue #1
Welcome
The Product Gryz is for product managers, founders, and builders who want a short read on strategy, tools, and execution in an AI-heavy industry — curated news, tool spotlights, and frameworks we actually use.
The brief
- Notion launches AI roadmapping. Auto-generates milestones from discovery notes.
- Linear raises $35M. Doubling down on frictionless issue tracking.
- Figma branching for PMs. Safer parallel exploration for research and docs.
Tools of the trade
ToolOpen in Miroverse
Miro's Product Discovery templates
Start early validation from a proven discovery map instead of a blank board.
Product insight
The shift from slides to systems
Roadmaps used to be static slides emailed quarterly. That world is gone. Today they have to:
- Live in real time — accessible to every stakeholder, not just whoever owns the deck.
- Connect to execution — synced with Jira, Linear, or GitHub.
- Measure impact — tied to product analytics, not just delivery.
Our take: the next generation of tools has to blur the line between planning and doing.
Quick hits
- Roadmaps are bets, not promises.
- Discovery is a team sport, not a PM solo act.
- A good roadmap says no more often than it says yes.
Next up: Cursor for PMs
A short series on using Cursor as a product manager:
- Going from PRD to prototype in minutes.
- The prompts that carry most of the weight.
- Workflows that unblock a team instead of just the PM.