RefoundAI/lenny-skills

AI Evals helps teams build robust evaluation infrastructure for measuring, monitoring, and iterating on AI product performance using human, code-based, and LLM-as-a-judge methods.

AI Product Strategy helps product teams decide where to apply AI effectively, manage the shift from deterministic to probabilistic software, and build defensibility through verticalization and proprietary data.

AI-Assisted Prototyping helps product leaders build functional prototypes from natural language or visual mocks using AI coding tools. Use it to validate ideas, bypass engineering bottlenecks, and hand off high-fidelity reference code.

AI-Native UX Design guides product teams in designing AI-native interfaces that handle non-deterministic outputs, balance automation with user control, and structure conversational interactions.

Acquisition Channels helps identify unique distribution advantages and master the lifecycle of acquisition channels to build a sustainable engine for growth and retention. Use it to audit channel health, optimize content strategy, and sequence growth hiring based on revenue motion.

Analyzing User Feedback helps product teams turn large volumes of qualitative and quantitative feedback into high-confidence product decisions by categorizing signals, assessing representativeness, and applying AI synthesis.

Breaking Into Product Management helps users identify the most viable path into product management, assess role fit, and execute a transition strategy through internal mobility, APM programs, or startup roles. Use it for guidance based on Lenny's Podcast insights.

Building With AI Agents helps users transition from manual coding to directing a parallel team of autonomous AI agents, using precise instructions, parallel tasking, and automated review.

Building a Growth Team helps determine when to hire growth talent, which profiles to prioritize, and how to structure the team around product-market fit and bottlenecks. Use it to map growth needs to roles, org models, and hiring sequence.

Building a Promotion Case helps users document their impact, identify skill gaps, and collaborate with managers to secure a promotion by proving they are operating at the next level.

Career Transitions helps users evaluate new opportunities, manage professional identity shifts, and transition into roles that maximize impact and personal fulfillment. Use it when considering a job change or planning a move to a new role or industry.

Coaching And Talent Development helps leaders shift from solving problems to growing people through skill-gap assessment, reflection, and stretch assignments. Use it to coach direct reports, set growth plans, and avoid becoming the bottleneck.

Competitive Strategy helps users identify sources of durable competitive power, evaluate market threats, and design uniquely differentiated products. Use it to guide product strategy discussions with frameworks from Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

Continuous Discovery helps product teams build a sustainable habit of regular customer interaction so product decisions are driven by real-world needs rather than internal assumptions. Use it to audit current feedback loops, set up recurring customer interviews, and map unmet needs into an opportunity solution tree.

Customer Interviews helps product teams run high-impact customer interviews that uncover root emotional frustrations and causal triggers rather than surface-level feature requests. Use it to draft unbiased guides, synthesize findings, and spot genuine user pull.

Defining ICP helps users identify their most high-value customers by defining a hyper-specific ideal customer profile based on insights from Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. Use it to narrow focus, validate segments through cold outreach signals, and plan strategic expansion.

Defining Product Strategy helps product leaders turn ambitious goals into a rigorous diagnosis of challenges and a clear, actionable plan for winning in a specific market, using insights from Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. Use it when you need to identify the primary obstacle, define where and how to compete, structure a strategic narrative, or stress-test a plan.

Engineering Health helps users build a sustainable engineering culture by measuring team health with frameworks like Core 4 and DORA, managing technical debt as leverage, and optimizing development workflows with AI tools. Use it to baseline performance, identify delivery bottlenecks, and justify technical investments.

Enterprise Sales Motion provides frameworks and playbooks from Lenny's Podcast to help founders build a repeatable enterprise sales process, covering discovery, procurement, hiring, and governance.

Evaluating Startup Ideas helps users distinguish deceptive tarpit ideas from high-potential opportunities by applying rigorous frameworks for market timing, business math, and user demand.

Evaluating Trade-Offs helps product teams weigh competing priorities, calculate long-term value, and choose build-vs-buy or technical investment paths. Use it to surface hidden costs and communicate tradeoffs to leadership.

Executive Communication helps users master high-stakes communication for executive reviews, board meetings, and strategic decisions with clarity and confidence. Use it to structure narratives, frame tradeoffs, and deliver bad news to leadership.

First B2B Customers guides founders through the manual, unscalable journey of finding and closing their first ten paying B2B customers using personal networks, design partners, and high-touch early user success.

Fixing Underperforming Teams helps users identify why a team is struggling and implement a structured recovery plan addressing leadership gaps, individual performance, and structural misalignments.

Founder Psychology helps users navigate the emotional burdens of leadership by cultivating emotional awareness, reframing failure, and building sustainable mental health practices. Use it to diagnose stress, reframe setbacks, and apply somatic techniques for high-pressure decision-making.