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Product Strategy

Pawel HurynCommunityCreated by Pawel Huryn

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Create a comprehensive product strategy using the 9-section Product Strategy Canvas — vision, segments, costs, value propositions, trade-offs, metrics, growth, capabilities, and defensibility. Use when building a product strategy, creating a strategic plan, or defining product direction.
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This skill acts as a strategic partner for product managers and leaders, facilitating the creation of a comprehensive product strategy. By utilizing a 9-section canvas, it guides users through the essential components of a successful product plan, including vision, market segments, value propositions, trade-offs, metrics, and defensibility. It helps teams move from high-level aspirations to actionable plans by identifying critical hypotheses and suggesting experiments to validate strategic assumptions.

What it does

  • Structures product strategy using a 9-section canvas framework.
  • Defines clear vision, target segments, and value propositions.
  • Establishes key performance metrics including North Star and OMTM.
  • Identifies strategic trade-offs to maintain focus.
  • Outlines growth channels and necessary organizational capabilities.
  • Surfaces critical success hypotheses and suggests validation experiments.

When to use it

  • When launching a new product or entering a new market.
  • During quarterly strategic planning sessions.
  • When a product team needs to realign on direction and focus.
  • When defining the competitive advantage and defensibility of a product.

Advantages

  • Ensures all strategic elements are logically connected.
  • Promotes focus by explicitly defining what the product will not do.
  • Encourages evidence-based decision making through hypothesis testing.
  • Provides a standardized format for communicating strategy to stakeholders.

Usage examples

“Help me create a product strategy for a new B2B SaaS tool for remote team onboarding.”
The agent will generate a 9-section canvas covering the vision, target segments, value propositions, and growth strategy for the onboarding tool.
“I need to refine our product strategy. Can you help me identify our trade-offs and defensibility?”
The agent will analyze your current product positioning to suggest specific features to deprioritize and identify potential moats or barriers to entry.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/phuryn/product-strategy/download

  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip product-strategy.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Pawel Huryn

Product Strategy Canvas

Metadata

  • Name: product-strategy

  • Description: Generate a comprehensive product strategy using the 9-section Product Strategy Canvas. Covers vision, market segments, costs, value propositions, trade-offs, metrics, growth, capabilities, and defensibility.

  • Triggers: product strategy, strategy canvas, strategic plan, product strategy document

Instructions

You are an experienced product strategist developing a comprehensive product strategy for $ARGUMENTS.

Your task is to create a detailed Product Strategy Canvas that outlines how the product will compete, win, and grow in the market.

Input Requirements

  • Product description and current positioning

  • Market context, competitors, and customer insights

  • Company resources, constraints, and priorities

  • Any relevant business or market data

Product Strategy Canvas Template

1. Vision

  • How can we inspire people?

  • What are we aspiring to achieve?

  • What values do we uphold?

2. Market Segments

  • Market defined by people's problems (not demographics)

  • Jobs to Be Done (JTBD), desired outcomes, constraints

  • Who is our first segment?

  • Why this segment first?

3. Relative Costs

  • Do we optimize for low cost (like Southwest Airlines)?

  • Or do we emphasize unique value (like Starbucks)?

  • What's our cost position relative to competitors?

4. Value Proposition

For each target segment:

  • What before: The customer's current situation, pain, or need

  • How: How your product delivers the solution

  • What after: The improved outcome or future state

  • Alternatives: What customers use today instead

5. Trade-offs

  • What will we NOT do?

  • What features or markets are out of scope?

  • How does saying "no" create focus and amplify our value?

6. Key Metrics

  • North Star Metric: Single metric that drives overall business success

  • OMTM (One Metric That Matters): The one metric we optimize for this quarter

7. Growth

  • Sales-Led Growth or Product-Led Growth?

  • Primary acquisition channels

  • How do we scale?

  • What's our unit economics?

8. Capabilities

  • What competencies and resources do we need?

  • What do we build vs. partner for?

  • What capabilities must we develop to win?

9. Can't/Won't

  • Why can't competitors easily copy this?

  • What defensibility do we have (network effects, switching costs, IP)?

  • What barriers to entry exist for new competitors?

Output Process

  1. Define the vision and aspirational impact

  2. Identify 2-3 target market segments with their JTBD

  3. Establish cost positioning (low cost vs. premium value)

  4. Develop value propositions for each segment

  5. List explicit trade-offs (what we won't do)

  6. Set North Star and quarterly OMTM

  7. Outline growth strategy and channels

  8. Document required capabilities and partnerships

  9. Explain defensibility and barriers to competition

  10. Validate strategy coherence: ensure elements reinforce each other

  11. Surface critical hypotheses that must be true for success

  12. Suggest low-effort experiments to test key assumptions

Notes

  • Ensure all 9 elements fit together logically

  • Identify what must be true for this strategy to work (hypotheses)

  • Propose validation experiments with minimal effort

  • Strategy guides decisions; clarity enables faster execution

  • Revisit quarterly as market conditions change

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Further Reading

Files

ATTRIBUTION.md

Attribution

This folder is an unmodified copy of the Agent Skill "product-strategy", distributed by AutoGineer (https://autogineer.com/agent-skills).

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  • LICENSE: copied from LICENSE

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Attribution and licence

Created by
Pawel Huryn
Publisher
Pawel Huryn (Community)
Source
phuryn/pm-skills · pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy · commit 2a12295
Licence
MIT License (redistribution allowed)
  • LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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