When everything “could be AI,” how do you maintain roadmap focus?

I don't agree with the implication in the question. AI as it stands today is a super helpful tool but it doesn't replace the core requirements for a good roadmap. We still need to define where we're going, how we're getting there, and prioritise. Define Product Vision (where we're trying to get to) which serves as the north star to ensure leadership alignment and focus. Determine Strategy (how we get there), specify the goals and how success will be measured. Prioritise Impact, by identifying th ...Read More

The hardest product discipline right now isn't building AI features. It's saying no to the ones that demo well but don't compound into real value. AI makes it possible to ship faster than ever, which means you can also waste resources faster than ever. Apply the highest order bit. In binary, flipping a higher-order bit outweighs flipping all the lower-order bits combined. 1000 is bigger than 0111. The same is true for your roadmap. Before adding any AI feature, ask: is this the highest order bit ...Read More

Honestly, the "could be AI" trap is real. Our filter is pretty simple: does this move us closer to making customers wildly successful with agentic analytics, or is it just cool? We're working on a genuinely hard problem — building natural language experiences, deeply integrated in their work of work, that reason about data and produce insights people actually trust. The hallucination and non-determinism challenges mean that "good enough" AI isn't good enough for us. That bar helps us say no to a ...Read More

This is probably the most important discipline question in product right now. The honest answer is that maintaining focus requires saying no to things that are genuinely cool but don't move a structural lever. AI allows us to build and ship features faster than ever, that does NOT mean that we build everything anyone comes up with, there is much more judgement needed now on what to actually build that solves real customer problems.  The filter I use isn't "can AI do this?" It's "does AI create l ...Read More