lenny-skills

Help users create and run AI evaluations. Use when someone is building evals for LLM products, measuring model quality, creating test cases, designing rubrics, or trying to systematically measure AI output quality.

Help users define AI product strategy. Use when someone is building an AI product, deciding where to apply AI in their product, planning an AI roadmap, evaluating build vs buy for AI capabilities, or figuring out how to integrate AI into existing products.

Help users synthesize and act on customer feedback. Use when someone is analyzing NPS responses, processing support tickets, reviewing user research, synthesizing feedback from multiple channels, or trying to identify patterns in customer input.

Help users apply behavioral science to product design. Use when someone is designing for habit formation, reducing friction, applying psychology to UX, increasing retention through behavioral principles, or using nudges to influence user behavior.

Help users craft compelling brand narratives. Use when someone is defining brand strategy, writing company positioning, creating pitch narratives, developing messaging frameworks, or trying to make their company story more memorable.

Help users get promoted at work. Use when someone is preparing for a promotion conversation, building their case for advancement, trying to understand what's blocking their promotion, or figuring out how to get to the next level in their career.

Help users build and scale their sales organization. Use when someone is hiring their first salespeople, deciding when to bring on sales leadership, structuring sales compensation, or transitioning from founder-led sales.

Help users build and maintain strong team culture. Use when someone is defining team values, creating psychological safety, onboarding to a new team, navigating cultural change, or building distributed team norms.

Help users build effective AI applications. Use when someone is building with LLMs, writing prompts, designing AI features, implementing RAG, creating agents, running evals, or trying to improve AI output quality.

Help users navigate career changes and pivots. Use when someone is considering a new role, transitioning into product management, evaluating job offers, taking a sabbatical, or feeling stuck in their current position.

Help users develop and coach product managers. Use when someone is managing PMs, creating development plans, running performance reviews, or trying to level up their PM team's capabilities.

Help users build and grow product communities. Use when someone is starting a community, scaling an ambassador program, driving community-led growth, or choosing between user, developer, or partner communities.

Help users understand and respond to competition. Use when someone is positioning against competitors, evaluating market threats, running competitive war games, or deciding how much to focus on competitors versus customers.

Help users conduct effective hiring interviews. Use when someone is designing an interview loop, crafting interview questions, evaluating candidates in real-time, or building a structured interview process.

Help users run better customer and user interviews. Use when someone is preparing for user research, planning discovery interviews, writing interview questions, analyzing interview findings, or trying to understand customer needs.

Help users build content marketing strategies. Use when someone is starting a blog, building SEO, creating thought leadership content, or deciding on content formats and distribution channels.

Help users work effectively across functions. Use when someone is navigating PM-engineering relationships, resolving cross-team conflicts, building product trios, or improving handoffs between design, engineering, and product.

Help users create compelling product visions. Use when someone is writing a vision statement, defining a long-term product direction, aligning teams on the future state, or distinguishing vision from strategy.

Help users delegate effectively. Use when someone is struggling to let go of tasks, deciding what to delegate, building team autonomy, or balancing being hands-on vs hands-off.

Help users understand and build design engineering capabilities. Use when someone is creating a design engineering function, hiring design engineers, or bridging the gap between design and engineering teams.

Help users build and scale design systems. Use when someone is creating a component library, establishing design tokens, scaling brand consistency, or deciding when to invest in a design system.

Help users design and optimize growth loops. Use when someone is building viral mechanics, designing referral programs, creating product-led acquisition, or figuring out how to make their product grow itself.

Help users design effective surveys. Use when someone is creating customer surveys, NPS measurements, product-market fit surveys, or feedback collection mechanisms.

Help users implement effective dogfooding practices. Use when someone is trying to get their team to use their own product, designing internal usage programs, or building user empathy through personal product use.

Help users manage their energy for sustained performance. Use when someone is feeling burned out, trying to find their zone of genius, scheduling for productivity, or identifying what drains vs energizes them.

Help users build strong engineering culture. Use when someone is improving developer experience, fostering technical excellence, designing engineering practices, or scaling an engineering organization.

Help users navigate enterprise sales. Use when someone is closing large deals, managing complex buying committees, handling procurement, or converting PLG users to enterprise contracts.

Help users make better hiring decisions. Use when someone is evaluating job candidates, making hiring decisions, conducting reference checks, reviewing work samples or take-homes, calibrating their hiring bar, or deciding between finalists.

Help users evaluate emerging technologies. Use when someone is assessing new tools, making build vs buy decisions, evaluating AI vendors, or deciding on technical architecture.

Help users make better decisions between competing options. Use when someone is weighing pros and cons, comparing alternatives, struggling with a difficult choice, deciding between speed and quality, or asking "should we do X or Y?"

Help users build relationships with mentors and sponsors for career growth. Use when someone is looking for career guidance, wants to find a mentor, needs an advocate at work, is trying to build their professional network, or asking how to get advice from senior leaders.

Help founders close their first customers and build repeatable sales processes. Use when someone is doing founder-led sales, trying to get their first customers, writing cold outreach, running early sales calls, or asking when to hire their first salesperson.

Help founders raise capital and build investor relationships. Use when someone is preparing a pitch deck, deciding whether to raise venture capital, meeting with investors, or asking about fundraising strategy.

Help users create and deliver compelling presentations. Use when someone is preparing a talk, building a slide deck, dealing with presentation anxiety, practicing for a keynote, or asking how to be more engaging when presenting.

Help users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation, fire someone, address conflict with a colleague, or deliver disappointing news like a denied promotion.

Help users plan and execute product launches. Use when someone is planning a product launch, preparing PR outreach, coordinating a go-to-market campaign, launching on Product Hunt, or asking how to generate buzz for a new feature or product.

Help users work through feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Use when someone feels like a fraud, doubts their qualifications, is anxious about being "found out," or struggling with confidence in a new or challenging role.

Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs. incremental fixes, trying to get buy-in for tech debt reduction, or balancing new features with maintenance.

Help users set and hit realistic deadlines. Use when someone is planning project timelines, struggling to hit deadlines, dealing with timeline pressure from stakeholders, or trying to improve estimation accuracy.

Help users work effectively with their manager and executives. Use when someone is struggling with their manager relationship, needs to influence leadership, wants to get better at executive communication, or is trying to build trust with their boss.