Get your product team AI-ready
in 8 weeks.

In 8 weeks we embed AI-native workflows into your team's product work. Live coaching, video lessons, sparring on your real products.

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Markus Ellmer Produktmanager
300+ PMs have been through the Masterclass · Bosch, zooplus, Fraunhofer and more
Product Masterclass coach working with a product team
Product teams that have trained with us
Siemens
Danfoss
Hoffmann Group
LaVita
Trafineo
Xempus
Baloise
The challenge

Three patterns that show up with almost every product lead.

AI Pace

I should be doing more.

New AI tools every week, new model releases, too much news. Your team is as overwhelmed as you are. Block calendar time? No time. Go deep? No time. The feeling that stays: everyone else is pulling ahead, I'm falling behind.

Spot fixes, not structure

We use ChatGPT. But how we work hasn't changed.

Your team uses AI tools individually. ChatGPT for PRDs, Copilot for refinement. Everyone prompts on their own, no one changes the shared method. You're faster on isolated tasks, not as a team. That's tool use, not a workflow shift.

Velocity vs. Outcome

We ship more. Nothing changes.

With Cursor, engineering is 6× faster. Features explode. NPS flat, revenue flat. Then the line lands in a meeting: “Engineering delivers, product makes no difference.” And you don't have a clean answer for why that is.

Sound familiar?
A 30-minute conversation. No pitch. We'll look at where your team stands.
Voices

What product leaders say about the Product Masterclass

Leading by Example
Training vs. coaching

8 weeks. Your whole team. A curriculum with AI built into every part.

Product Masterclass is a dedicated program. Over 8 weeks we work with your product team to embed AI workflows into daily work.

AI workflow vs. prompting

Your team already prompts. An AI workflow is what changes the daily routine. We build it together with you.

Coaching vs. one-day training

Classic trainings give you a day of input, then you're alone again. We work with your team for eight weeks on your real projects. Sparring, coaching, and iteration every week.

Your product vs. case studies

Other trainings practice on fictional SaaS cases. We practice on your real backlog, your discovery, your roadmap. What you build lands in the next sprint.

Tool stack

The tools your team learns to work with.

Not a tools course. We use the stack that actually moves the needle in product teams today. You learn when to reach for what.

Claude
LLM

Custom Skills, code agents, long-form outputs

Week 0–8
ChatGPT
LLM

Custom GPTs as team skills, browser automation

Week 0–8
Gemini
LLM

1M-token context, Deep Research

Week 0–8
NotebookLM
Research

Source-grounded notes & briefs

Week 1, 5
Dovetail
User Research

Insight management, patterns

Week 1–2
Condens
User Research

Interview synthesis

Week 1
Cursor
AI Code Editor

Vibe coding, prototypes

Week 3, 6
Claude Code
Agentic CLI

Vibe coding, prototypes, tickets & specs

Week 3, 6, 7
Lovable
Builder

Functional mockups, no dev

Week 3
n8n
Automation

Agents that take on real work

Week 7

Tools change. The framework underneath stays. You learn the decision pattern, not the click paths.

Protect · Augment · Automate

Not everything should be automated. Learn what to master as a PM, what to leverage with AI, and what to automate entirely.

Protect

PM Principles

Deepen the core PM skills that make you valuable

Understanding Customers
Strategic vision & roadmapping
Stakeholder management
Decision-making processes
Product sense & judgment

Augment

Multiply Your Impact

Use AI to amplify your PM capabilities and work 10x faster.

Research synthesis
Competitive analysis & pattern detection
Strategy scenario exploration
Interview clustering & insights
Rapid prototyping & testing
Data analysis & anomaly detection

Automate

Free Up Your Time

Stop wasting time on repetitive tasks that don't require human judgment.

Documentation drafts & updates
Status reports & stakeholder updates
Acceptance criteria generation
Research tagging & organization
Routine follow-ups & reminders

8 Weeks That Transform How Your Team Works

Deepen your team's PM foundation, then learn to leverage AI and automate repetitive work.

Week 0

AI in Product Fundamentals

AI is going to change how your team works fundamentally in the next 3 years, but not everything will change. Some things need to stay human for your team to be successful. We are looking at our protect, augment, automate framework to help your team understand how AI changes what it does today.

What Your Team Will Master

• Identify which tasks to protect, augment, or automate in your daily work
• Build your personal AI productivity stack
• Know exactly when to use human judgment vs. AI tools

Tools: Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT

Week 1

Problem-Space Interviews

Great product decisions still start with real human conversations.
AI helps your team prepare, synthesize, and spot patterns without losing empathy.
The result: clearer insights with far less manual effort.

What Your Team Will Master

• Prepare and run customer interviews that uncover real problems
• Use AI to synthesize interviews into clear patterns and insights
• Translate qualitative insights into confident product decisions

Tools: Condense, Dovetail, Claude Code,

PROTECT: Interview technique & human connection, Reading behavior, not just answers
AUGMENT: Interview preparation & multi-interview synthesis, Insight clustering & pattern detection
AUTOMATE: Transcription, tagging, scheduling & follow-ups
Week 2

AI-Assisted Product Discovery & Insight Management

Most organizations do not do a lot of discovery. We show your team how AI makes discovery possible with far less effort — and which parts your team still has to drive itself.

What Your Team Will Master

• Build a continuous discovery workflow for your product
• Leverage AI for Insights Management
• Synthesize Data into Patterns

PROTECT: Problem framing & risk prioritization, Deciding what is worth exploring, Synthesize Insights into actionable patterns
AUGMENT: AI-supported hypothesis & opportunity discovery, Pattern recognition across internal & external data
AUTOMATE: Structuring & documenting discovery insights, Reusable discovery templates
Week 3

Vibe Coding for Product Managers

Vibe Coding enables your product people to test solutions faster than ever. It makes your team more independent of developers & designers and lets it iterate in hours instead of weeks.

What Your Team Will Master

• Build functional prototypes in hours instead of weeks
• Code your own prototypes without waiting for developers or designers

Tools: Lovable, Claude Code

PROTECT: Deciding when building helps learning, Build-to-learn vs. build-to-ship judgment
AUGMENT: Rapid prototyping of flows & variants, Exploring solution spaces through building
AUTOMATE: Creating and discarding prototype variants quickly, Reusable experiment setups
Week 4

Stakeholder Management

Whether your organization is already great at product or not, AI is already changing it today. We show your team the timeless tools that help drive decisions across teams & stakeholders. The focus is on storytelling, convincing & decision-making.

What Your Team Will Master

• Align executives, sales, and engineering without endless meetings
• Defend product decisions with clear reasoning stakeholders buy into
• Use AI to turn stakeholder chaos into clarity

Tools: Your own AI Strategy Repository

PROTECT: Decision ownership & lateral leadership, Stakeholder Management
AUGMENT: Decision Documentation, Stakeholder Meeting Prep
AUTOMATE: Status updates & decision memos, Stakeholder communication routines
Week 5

Vision, Strategy & Roadmapping

AI is reshaping how vision, strategy, and roadmaps are created and communicated. This week, your team uses AI to sharpen strategic thinking, tell clearer stories, and make stronger prioritization decisions. The focus is on clarity and alignment, not prettier slides.

What Your Team Will Master

• Turn your roadmap into a compelling strategic narrative
• Build and leverage your own AI Strategy Repository
• Leverage AI for prioritization decisions

Tools: Your own AI Strategy Repository

PROTECT: Product Vision, Roadmap Ownership & Longterm Direction, Decisions
AUGMENT: Drafting & Refining Strategy, Adapting Roadmaps for different audiences
AUTOMATE: Roadmap explanations and status updates
Week 6

Context Engineering & Requirements

Ticket writing is a task of the past. Your team creates context for the LLM by combining architecture information from GitHub, UI design systems, product strategy and direction. AI does the writing. Your PMs stay accountable for the decisions, documentation is automated.

What Your Team Will Master

• Build an AI Brain for your product
• Make existing strategy, roadmaps etc. AI usable
• Generate great requirements from your AI Brain

Tools: Your Own Agents, BMad Method

PROTECT: Deciding what to build and why, Clarity over goals, context & success
AUGMENT: Writing & refining requirements, Edge-case identification & spec reviews
AUTOMATE: Structuring requirements & acceptance criteria, Context summaries for delivery teams
Week 7

From Manual Work to Automation Mindset

AI-native companies expect automation skills from every product team. That is why we show your team how to automate repeating tasks and build the mindset to spot them.

What Your Team Will Master

• Build automations that eliminate busy work
• Spot automation opportunities in your daily workflow
• Ship working automations using no-code tools that free up time to ship value

Tools: N8N, Make, Zapier, Build your own Agents

PROTECT: Judging what should (and shouldn’t) be automated, Quality control & human oversight
AUGMENT: Breaking work into automatable patterns, Designing simple, reliable workflows
AUTOMATE: Repetitive PM tasks, Personal productivity automations
Week 8

Build Your AI Workflow

By now, the question is no longer whether to use AI, but how to make it work in your team's real, messy day-to-day product work. In this final week, your team turns everything it learned into practical AI workflows that fit your roles, your tools, and your organization. The goal is not more tools, but a setup that actually survives internal constraints.

What Your Team Will Master

• Apply the learnings of the last 8 weeks directly to your workflow
• Integrate into your existing tech & tool stack
• Learn how to manage around internal obstacles

Right curriculum for your team?
A 30-minute conversation. No pitch. We'll find out if it fits.

3 hours per week.
For 8 weeks.

Not a college lecture. Not a self-paced course. Live, interactive, with exercises on your own product.

Cadence

8 consecutive weeks
1 live session per week (1.5h)
30 to 45 minutes of video content
8+ participants from your team

Delivery

Live on Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet
German or English
4 coaches from product, engineering, and design

What you get

Session recordings, unlimited
Workbooks + prompt libraries per week
Team-wide practice, not individual certificates
12 months of alumni access after completion

After 8 weeks

Team uses AI workflows in discovery, planning, delivery
Shared language and standards across the team
Your PRDs and tickets in 1/5 the time
You have a workflow you keep evolving yourselves

FAQ

What CPOs keep asking us. And our answers.

We don't have budget right now.

Right now there's hardly a higher-ROI investment than equipping your product team with AI-native workflows. If it's a priority, budget usually follows.

It's the biggest lever in the company for building the right things faster.

If there's really no money for this, you're in a dangerous spot. Other teams around you are deploying AI fast, building faster, understanding customers faster, succeeding faster.

I just took over the product team.

Perfect starting point. As a new product lead you need two things at once: a clear direction and a team that backs it.

An 8-week cohort delivers both. Your team immediately sees you investing in their growth, and instead of three different playbooks you come out with one shared mindset.

We just had a management change.

Perfect chance to position yourself as a lead who thinks ahead and pushes the company forward.

Bring the new leader in early. We offer a free 1-hour deep dive for that. No pressure.

We only have 4 PMs. Is it worth it?

A dedicated Company Cohort makes sense for 8 or more participants.

For smaller teams there's the public Product Masterclass: same content, same trainers, open for individual sign-ups.

Drop us a note and we'll recommend the right cohort.

How customized is this to our team?

Very. The live sessions work on your real backlog, your discovery, your current roadmap.

Before we start we run a context workshop with you to identify the biggest levers for your team and set priorities, without diluting the curriculum.

Can engineering, design, or sales join?

Yes, and we recommend it. Cross-functional participants like engineers, designers, or sales and support leads measurably improve cross-team collaboration after the cohort.

You save translation work later when your team rolls new workflows out across the org.

What's the difference vs. the public Product Masterclass?

The public Masterclass is for individuals who want personal growth.

Company Cohorts bring your whole team to the same level at the same time, with exercises on your real backlog.

Plus: private, not public (important for confidential strategy discussions).

When does the next cohort start for us?

Company Cohorts are private, we start whenever you're ready.

Kickoff is 1 to 2 weeks after order confirmation.

Usually procurement takes longer than our prep time, so we can start almost immediately.

What stays in the team after 8 weeks?

A shared understanding of product development with an AI-first approach.

You'll have built a shared workflow that you keep building on and changing yourselves. And you keep alumni access to the Product Masterclass videos and materials.

After 8 weeks your team walks away with a different mindset: more effective, faster, and better at collaborating with engineering and stakeholders across the company.

Who's behind this

Coaches from the field. Hosts of Just Product. 10+ years of product experience in DACH.

Product Masterclass, Just Product, and our Project-to-Product methodology all come from us. We don't just train, we help build the ecosystem you work in.

COACHES

Coaches who actually build

4 coaches from product, engineering, and design. All active in product teams, all using AI workflows daily. Whoever coaches your team builds prototypes in Cursor regularly. No ex-consultants presenting the same slides for 5 years.

CONFERENCE

Hosts of Just Product

Just Product is the leading German-speaking product conference. We curate it. That means we see in real time what actually works in DACH product teams, not what's trending in US podcasts.

FRAMEWORK

Project-to-Product methodology

The framework underneath this cohort. Built by Thomas Hartmann and Sebastian Borggrewe, based on 10+ years of practice in DACH scale-ups and corporate digital divisions. Not MBA theory.

Contact

Get your team AI-ready now.

Together we'll look at where your team stands, which AI levers matter most for you, and whether a Company Cohort is the right fit or another path makes more sense.

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