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Teach activation strategy through guided exploration. Walk the user through defining their activation event, designing their signup-to-value flow, benchmarking their rate, and designing an experiment to improve it. Use when someone wants to learn about activation, improve their activation rate, find their aha moment, or design an onboarding flow. Produces a structured Activation Flow Design document.

Route any product management question to the right skill, framework, or transcript search. Use when someone asks a PM question, wants career advice, needs a growth strategy, or says 'ask lenny.' This is the main concierge — it figures out what the user needs and dispatches to the right specialist skill.

Recommend specific Lenny's Podcast episodes based on what the user is dealing with. Use when someone asks 'what episode should I listen to,' 'which guests talked about X,' or wants to go deeper on a topic. Also use when finishing a skill session to suggest follow-up listening.

Prioritize a feature, project, or initiative using stacked PM frameworks. Use when someone says 'should I build this feature', 'how should I prioritize my roadmap', 'is this worth building', 'help me decide what to work on next', 'what should I cut from my roadmap', 'RICE vs ICE', or 'how do I say no to this request'. Walks through multiple prioritization lenses and outputs a scored recommendation.

Teach growth loops using Lenny's Podcast frameworks. Use when someone says 'teach me about growth loops', 'how do growth loops work', 'what's a growth loop', 'help me understand growth models', 'how should I think about growth', 'explain growth loops', or 'growth loops masterclass'. This is a teaching skill, not a decision tool -- it builds understanding through guided exploration and application to the user's own product.

Design a quantitative growth model for your product. Use when someone says 'help me build a growth model', 'how should I think about our growth loops', 'I need a growth model spreadsheet', 'growth is slowing down', 'should we add PLG', 'help me map our acquisition channels', 'what are our growth loops', 'how do I model my business growth', or 'I want to understand how my product grows'. Walks through 8 stages from growth phase diagnosis through loop identification to spreadsheet modeling and outputs a Growth Model Blueprint.

Hire a product manager using structured competency frameworks from Lenny's Podcast guests. Use when someone says 'I need to hire a PM', 'help me design a PM interview loop', 'how do I evaluate PM candidates', 'I'm hiring my first product manager', 'help me build a PM hiring scorecard', 'I have a PM candidate — help me decide hire/no-hire', 'what interview questions should I ask PMs', or 'how do I set up a Bar Raiser process'. Walks through role definition, competency scoring, interview design, reference checks, and produces a PM Hiring Scorecard.

Teach network effects using Lenny's Podcast frameworks. Use when someone says 'teach me about network effects', 'does my product have network effects', 'what are network effects', 'cold start problem', 'how do I build a moat', 'marketplace defensibility', or 'winner take all'. Teaching skill — builds understanding through guided application to the user's own product.

Help a founder or PM set, fix, or evolve their product pricing. Use when someone says 'how should I price this', 'is my pricing right', 'should I raise prices', 'how do I monetize', 'freemium vs paid', 'usage-based vs seat-based', 'how much should I charge', 'pricing for AI products', 'we need to change our pricing model', or 'help me figure out my pricing strategy'. Walks through pricing frameworks from Madhavan Ramanujam, Patrick Campbell, Rahul Vohra, Elena Verna, and Ben Williams and outputs a Pricing Strategy Blueprint.

Teach retention strategy through guided exploration. Walk the user through diagnosing their product's retention, reading retention curves, choosing the right timeframe, identifying churn drivers, designing engagement loops, and building a retention experiment. Use when someone says 'help me with retention,' 'my users are churning,' 'teach me about retention,' or 'retention workshop.' Produces a written Retention Strategy document.