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Product Org OS

Intent → Decisions → Commitments → Execution → Outcomes → Learning

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Product Org OS is the open-source edition of the licensed ProductBeacon AI Agentic Workforce. It includes the PBAW harness and product team. The harness selects roles, loads their methods and knowledge, and guides the work. PBAW's additional specialist teams are not included in this free edition.

11 product roles • 125 methods and controls • 117 knowledge files • four governed workflows

What's New in v6.2.0 | Based on Vision to Value: A Blueprint for Product Organizations

Uses the Decision Provenance Standard to keep recommendations, evidence, ownership, and human acceptance distinct.

Your AI-Powered Product Organization

For product professionals at any level who want to drive outsized impact. Use the governed harness, apply proven product methods, and build institutional memory.

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11 Product Roles

CPO, VP Product, Directors, PMs, PMMs, BizOps, and more. Each role has a bounded remit, declared methods, and professional knowledge.

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Product Methods and Controls

Create a PRD, roadmap, business case, GTM strategy, pricing model, launch plan, and more through repeatable operating instructions.

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Local Context Layer

Accepted decisions, feedback, documents, and learnings can persist in your repository, where your team can inspect and control them.

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Quality Guardrails

Built-in validation for ownership, customer value, collaboration, and scalability. Catch issues before they become problems.

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End-to-End Coverage

From strategic intent to learning loop. Six phases covering every stage of the product lifecycle with appropriate skills.

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Scales With You

Junior PM? Get senior guidance. CPO? Amplify your reach. Works at every level and adapts to your context.

Use Cases

Install once in your repo. Everyone with repo access can use it through their AI coding assistant.

👤 Solo Product Professional

  • "I want /pbaw to turn this idea into a product brief."
  • "/plan how we turn this vision into a roadmap."
  • "Here's the PRD. /audit it against our customer research."
  • "We've agreed the direction. /context-harvest the decisions and why."
  • The harness brings the right product judgment to the request

👥 Product Team

  • "I want /pbaw to find the patterns in this customer feedback."
  • "/plan how we validate the riskiest assumption."
  • "/audit this recommendation against the research."
  • "The review changed our direction. /context-harvest what we learned."
  • Shared local context keeps the team aligned across sessions

🏢 Product Organization

  • "I want /pbaw to challenge our product strategy."
  • "/plan our next quarter around these priorities."
  • "/audit the finished roadmap against our plan."
  • "We've made the trade-off. /context-harvest the decision and why."
  • Named human owners keep authority over material choices

How to Use It

Invoke the harness, not a role handle. It plans substantial work, selects the right product specialists, audits evidence, and preserves accepted learning.

/plan

Use a proportionate written plan for non-trivial work. Scope, assumptions, decisions, recovery boundaries, and verification become visible before execution.

/plan the strategy update around this board feedback.
/plan how we turn this vision into a roadmap.
Our pricing needs a rethink. /plan how we explore the options.

/audit + /context-harvest

Audit a plan or completed result against evidence. Then preserve accepted decisions, feedback, assumptions, and learning in local context.

/audit this proposal against what customers actually asked for.
We've agreed the direction. /context-harvest the decisions and why.
The roadmap is ready. /audit it against our plan and research.

Your Product Org, Thinking Together

An illustrative conversation: bring the context, ask for help, and hear the product perspectives together.

Our strategy is to grow with enterprise customers. They keep asking for webhooks, while developers want a better SDK. We can only prioritise one. I want /pbaw to help me think it through.
VP Product

I'd start with the enterprise goal. Webhooks sound closer to it, but I want to see which customer workflows are blocked before we call this a priority.

Product Manager

I want to compare the customer evidence with the engineering work. If the SDK is blocking adoption, that could change the choice. Let's check both before committing.

Dir. Product Marketing

I can see an enterprise story for webhooks. I'd test that story with the customers asking for them and keep the claims tied to what we can demonstrate.

Alignment Webhooks may fit the enterprise goal; validate the need
Decision Compare the evidence before choosing
Next Steps /plan how we test the customer need and compare the work

Vision to Value

Six interconnected phases that transform strategic intent into business outcomes, feeding learning back into strategy.

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Strategic Foundation (Input Phase)

Establish the strategic context and market understanding that informs all downstream decisions.

/strategic-intent /market-analysis /competitive-landscape /vision-statement /market-segment /assumption-map /opportunity-tree /experiment-design
2

Strategic Decisions (Commercial Filter)

Make critical business decisions that determine commercial viability and positioning. Not all initiatives pass this gate.

/business-case /pricing-strategy /positioning-statement /strategic-bet /decision-record
3

Strategic Commitments (Point of No Return)

Convert decisions into commitments: roadmaps, GTM plans, and requirements that the organization will execute.

/product-roadmap /gtm-strategy /launch-plan /prd /commitment-check
4

Coordinated Execution (The Doing Phase)

Execute the plan with cross-functional coordination. Marketing campaigns, sales enablement, and launch readiness.

/campaign-brief /sales-enablement /launch-readiness /stakeholder-brief
5

Business & Customer Outcomes (Output Phase)

Realize the promised value and track outcomes. Are customers getting what we promised?

/onboarding-playbook /value-realization-report /customer-health-scorecard
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Learning & Adaptation Loop (System Brain)

Extract learnings, validate assumptions, and feed insights back into Phase 1. The organization gets smarter.

/outcome-review /retrospective /decision-quality-audit /context-save /feedback-capture /compound

11 Product Roles

Each role declares its remit, core skills, mandatory workflows, knowledge packs, and delegation patterns in structured metadata.

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Chief Product Officer

Runtime-selected role

Executive product strategy, organization design, portfolio decisions, and board communication.

decision-record strategic-bet portfolio-tradeoff vision-statement
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VP of Product

Runtime-selected role

Product vision, roadmap accountability, pricing strategy, and org structure guidance.

vision-statement pricing-strategy product-roadmap
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Director of Product Management

Runtime-selected role

Roadmap governance, team coordination, requirements processes, and delivery planning.

product-roadmap roadmap-theme prd
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Director of Product Marketing

Runtime-selected role

GTM strategy, positioning, competitive intelligence, and launch coordination.

gtm-strategy positioning-statement launch-plan
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Product Manager

Runtime-selected role

Feature specs, user stories, delivery planning, and backlog management.

prd feature-spec user-story
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Product Marketing Manager

Runtime-selected role

Campaigns, collateral, customer research, and sales enablement materials.

campaign-brief sales-enablement competitive-analysis
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Business Operations

Runtime-selected role

Business cases, financial analysis, KPI tracking, and QBR preparation.

business-case business-plan qbr-deck
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Value Realization

Runtime-selected role

Success metrics, ROI analysis, adoption tracking, and customer outcomes.

value-realization-report customer-health-scorecard outcome-review
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Competitive Intelligence

Runtime-selected role

Competitor analysis, win/loss analysis, market research, and trend monitoring.

competitive-landscape competitive-analysis market-analysis
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Business Development

Runtime-selected role

Partnership strategy, market expansion, deal structuring, and ecosystem plays.

market-segment business-case strategic-bet
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Product Operations

Runtime-selected role

Process optimization, launch coordination, tooling, and cross-team facilitation.

launch-readiness retrospective stakeholder-brief

Product Methods and Controls

The verified public inventory includes product roles, governed workflows, methods, and supporting controls. The selected methods below show the breadth of the shipped package.

📄 Documents

11 skills
/prd
Full Product Requirements Document
/product-roadmap
Product roadmap with phasing
/business-case
Investment business case
/business-plan
Comprehensive business plan
/gtm-strategy
Go-to-market strategy
/pricing-strategy
Pricing with packaging
/competitive-landscape
Competitive landscape analysis
/market-analysis
Market analysis document
/launch-plan
Product launch plan
/qbr-deck
Quarterly business review
/prd-outline
PRD outline/structure

🧠 Context Layer

11 skills
/context-save
Save decisions, bets, learnings
/context-recall
Query past decisions by topic
/interaction-recall
Query past conversations by topic, agent, or date
/portfolio-status
View current strategic bets
/handoff
Capture context for delegation
/relevant-learnings
Find applicable learnings
/feedback-capture
Capture product feedback
/feedback-recall
Query feedback by topic
/roi-report
View ROI dashboard and time savings
/index-folder
Index folder contents for fast retrieval
/compound
Extract and compound learnings

💡 Operating System

8 skills
/strategic-intent
Strategic intent document
/strategy-communication
Strategy comms package
/campaign-brief
Marketing campaign brief
/sales-enablement
Sales enablement materials
/onboarding-playbook
Customer onboarding playbook
/value-realization-report
Customer value report
/customer-health-scorecard
Customer health metrics (Lincoln Murphy / Gainsight)
/retrospective
Structured retrospective (Agile / Scrum community)

⚖ Decisions

3 skills
/decision-record
Structured decision record (Michael Nygard, ADRs)
/decision-charter
Charter for recurring decisions
/escalation-rule
Escalation rules definition

⚡ Strategy

6 skills
/strategic-bet
Define bet with assumptions
/assumption-map
Map and prioritize assumptions
/opportunity-tree
Opportunity solution tree
/experiment-design
Design validation experiments
/commitment-check
Pre-commitment readiness
/portfolio-tradeoff
Portfolio-level tradeoffs

📦 Assets

8 skills
/vision-statement
Product vision statement
/roadmap-theme
Roadmap theme definition
/roadmap-item
Individual roadmap item
/gtm-brief
Shorter GTM brief
/pricing-model
Pricing model definition
/positioning-statement
Market positioning (April Dunford)
/competitive-analysis
Single competitor analysis
/market-segment
Market segment definition

📋 Requirements

2 skills
/feature-spec
Feature specification
/user-story
User story with acceptance

✅ Principle Validators

5 skills
/ownership-map
Map end-to-end accountability
/customer-value-trace
Trace work to customer value
/collaboration-check
Validate RACI and stakeholders
/scale-check
Assess scalability at 2x, 10x, 100x
/phase-check
Assess Vision to Value phase status

🚀 Operations

3 skills
/launch-readiness
Launch readiness checklist
/stakeholder-brief
Stakeholder briefing
/outcome-review
Post-launch outcome review

📊 Assessment

3 skills
/maturity-check
Product org maturity assessment
/pm-level-check
PM competency assessment
/decision-quality-audit
Decision quality audit

🎯 Strategy Frameworks

21 skills
/porter-five-forces
Industry competitive analysis (Porter, 1979)
/blue-ocean
Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005)
/swot-analysis
SWOT analysis (Humphrey, 1960s)
/pestle-analysis
PESTLE macro-environment analysis (Aguilar, 1967)
/business-model-canvas
Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010)
/lean-canvas
Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya, 2012)
/ansoff-matrix
Ansoff Growth Matrix (Ansoff, 1957)
/bcg-matrix
Growth-Share Matrix (BCG, 1970)
/dhm-analysis
Delight, Hard-to-copy, Margin-enhancing (Gibson Biddle)
/four-risks-check
Four Big Risks (Marty Cagan / SVPG, 2017)
/growth-model
Growth Loops + Racecar (Brian Balfour / Reforge, 2018)
/prioritize-features
RICE, Kano, MoSCoW, WSJF multi-framework prioritization
/bias-check
Cognitive bias audit (Kahneman, Heath brothers)
/press-release-faq
Working Backwards / PRFAQ (Amazon / Bezos)
/pretotype
Pretotyping validation (Alberto Savoia, 2019)
/north-star-metric
North Star Framework (Sean Ellis / Amplitude, 2017)
/product-teardown
Structured product teardown analysis
/stakeholder-map
Power/Interest matrix (Mendelow, 1991)
/interview-synthesis
Thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, Teresa Torres)
/customer-journey-map
Customer journey mapping (Adaptive Path, 2007)
/competitive-battlecard
Competitive battlecards (B2B standard)

⚙ Governed Workflows

4 workflows + 1 control
/pbaw
Assign the right product role with bounded context and declared knowledge
/plan
Plan non-trivial work and surface owner decisions before execution
/audit
Review a proposed plan or completed result against evidence
/context-harvest
Preserve accepted decisions, assumptions, feedback, and learning locally
/verification-before-completion
Require observed evidence before a completion claim

🔗 Additional Product Methods

20 selected methods
/seven-powers
Assess durable strategic advantage
/wardley-map
Map value chains, evolution, and strategic movement
/design-sprint
Structure rapid problem framing, prototyping, and learning
/kano-analysis
Classify needs by their effect on customer satisfaction
/heart-metrics
Frame user-experience measurement across HEART dimensions
/pirate-metrics
Map acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue
/ooda-loop
Improve decision speed through observe, orient, decide, act
/shape-up
Shape a bounded problem before committing delivery capacity
/theory-of-constraints
Identify and manage the constraint limiting system performance
/operating-calendar
Define a practical product operating cadence
/messaging-architecture
Connect audience, value, proof, and message hierarchy
/launch-narrative-brief
Shape the customer and market story behind a launch
/win-loss-decision-signal
Turn win-loss evidence into product decision signals
/partnership-architecture
Design a partnership model around mutual value and governance
/saas-health-check
Review the evidence behind a SaaS product's operating health
/okr-writer
Write outcome-focused objectives and measurable key results
/bet-invalidation-checkpoint
Define evidence that should stop or revise a strategic bet
/daci
Clarify decision driver, approver, contributors, and informed parties
/present
Turn an approved narrative into a reviewable HTML presentation
/writing-plans
Turn approved requirements into an executable implementation plan

Product Knowledge

Skills explain what to do. Knowledge packs supply the professional methods and reference material needed to do it credibly. Product roles declare the packs they load for a task.

📚 Product & Commercial Knowledge

18 packs
Prioritization · Pricing frameworks
Trade-offs, sequencing, packaging, and value metrics
Discovery methods · User research
Customer discovery, interviewing, and synthesis
Metrics frameworks · SaaS metrics
Product measurement, funnels, retention, and commercial health
Competitive frameworks · Market research
Market structure, alternatives, competitors, and evidence
GTM playbooks · Content marketing
Go-to-market design, launches, messaging, and content
Growth frameworks · GEO playbook
Growth systems and generative-engine visibility
Stakeholder management · Program management
Alignment, communication, dependencies, and execution
Financial modeling · Partnership models
Business cases, economics, and partnership structures
Customer success · Value-score design
Adoption, outcomes, customer health, and realized value

🔗 AI, Operations & Specialist Knowledge

18 packs
Agentic commerce · Agentic security
Agent-mediated buying, controls, risks, and trust boundaries
AI agent supervision · AI research synthesis
Oversight patterns and evidence-led research workflows
MCP architecture · Generative UI
Tool-connected agent systems and adaptive interfaces
Compliance frameworks · Contract templates
Compliance context and common agreement structures
NDA review · HR AI governance
NDA patterns and responsible AI use in people processes
Change management · Incident response
Adoption, organizational change, and operational response
Operations playbooks · Design systems
Repeatable operating practices and coherent experience systems
M&A value stack · Venture innovation
Value creation, diligence, and venture-building patterns
PR communications · SEO frameworks
External communications and search visibility

The Context Layer

Build local institutional memory that remains inspectable and under your control. Recall only what a task needs, then preserve accepted outcomes after review.

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Decisions

Track decisions with options, rationale, and success criteria

DR-2026-001
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Strategic Bets

Explicit bets with assumptions and checkpoints

SB-2026-003
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Assumptions

Testable assumptions with validation methods

A-015
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Learnings

Organizational insights with application guidance

L-042
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Feedback

Customer feedback with full metadata and analysis

FB-2026-001
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Documents

PRDs, roadmaps, and strategic docs tracked by type

PRD-2026-001
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Interactions

Retain useful interaction summaries locally when the operating workflow calls for them.

IX-2026-00042
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Local, Inspectable Memory

The installer creates an empty context/ structure in your workspace. Product Org OS does not ship a remote memory service or require your business material to leave that workspace.

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Recall Selectively

Load only the decisions and evidence relevant to the assignment

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Keep Ownership Clear

Separate an agent recommendation from a human-owned decision

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Harvest After Review

Save accepted decisions, assumptions, feedback, and learning

// Repository-owned memory
context/{documents,decisions,bets,assumptions,learnings,feedback}/

8 Operating Principles

Every skill and agent operates within these principles from the Vision to Value Operating System.

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End-to-end Ownership Is Non-Negotiable

Product org accountable from strategy through customer outcomes.

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Strategy Precedes Structure

Organizational design follows strategic priorities, not the reverse.

3

Product Leadership Is About Decision Quality

The core metric for product leadership effectiveness.

4

Alignment Beats Consensus

Right people, right inputs, right time - but decisions need single owners.

5

Go-to-market Is a Strategic Choice, Not a Handoff

GTM is integral to product strategy, not an afterthought.

6

Execution Is a Leadership Discipline

Leaders stay engaged through delivery, not just planning.

7

Scale Changes the Nature of the Work

What worked at one stage must evolve as the organization grows.

8

Organizations Learn Through Outcomes

Systematic capture and application of learnings from real results.

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