Builds

How I Keep My AI Product Profitable With 71 Paid Users and $0 Infrastructure Costs

The engineering decisions that let me serve premium subscribers without touching my hosting budget. Rate limits, cooldowns, and why constraint-driven…

Apr 21 • Elena | AI Product Leader

15 Prompts That Work Better When Your AI Already Knows Your Product

I have 71 prompts in the Prompt-Led Vault. These are the 15 a Product Manager should run first, and why every single one changes the moment Claude knows…

Apr 16 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Lovable Just Launched Payments. Here Is Every Way I Broke It First.

I beta tested Paddle inside Lovable before it went public. The checkout worked. The database wrote nothing. Here is what actually happened behind the…

Apr 14 • Elena | AI Product Leader

How I Stopped Building a Website and Started Building an MCP Protocol

My paid subscribers can now search my entire prompt library from inside Claude. Here is the architecture, the prompts, and the security mistake I almost…

Apr 7 • Elena | AI Product Leader

I Built a Product Brain MCP to Stop Carrying Context in My Head

What is an MCP, why Product Managers need one, and how to build yours in a single afternoon with no coding experience.

Apr 2 • Elena | AI Product Leader

How I Built a Self-Correcting Data Engine for my AI Vault

From the Butcher to the Critic: I built a three-pass audit system to clean 180 legacy blueprints. Here is the exact logic I used.

Mar 31 • Elena | AI Product Leader

I Audited My Workflow and Found a Hidden 8.5-Hour Coordination Tax. Then I Built the Fix

A PM's breakdown of the coordination tax that kills collaborative work before it ships, and the infrastructure I built to eliminate it.

Mar 26 • Elena | AI Product Leader

I Broke My Own System: My Year of Logic is Now Searchable Inside the Prompt Led Product Vault

I dismantled a year of technical blueprints to build a searchable logic engine. Access 61+ audited patterns, the Prompt Led Product Vault, and the exact…

Mar 24 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Why the CLAUDE.md file is the new PRD: Product Governance in the Age of AI Agents

How Technical PMs use “Project Memory” to ship production software without writing a single line of code.

Mar 19 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Build A RAG Agent For Your Career Portfolio

Session Two. How to use RAG to ground your personal brand in reality and stop AI hallucinations.

Mar 10 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Why I Built The Anti AI Generator, A Tool That Refuses To Write

A case study on AI Product Strategy and intentional building. How I turned a 10k milestone into a tool that solves for critical thinking over rapid…

Mar 5 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Stop Sending Static Resumes. Vibe Code Your Portfolio Instead.

Watch me vibe code my new PM portfolio in 30 minutes using Lovable and Gemini. Stop sending PDFs and show recruiters you can build with AI.

Mar 3 • Elena | AI Product Leader

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