
João Ascensão
VP of AI, OutSystems | Invited Professor, ISCTE-IUL | Founder LP, Shilling VC
25 guides by João Ascensão
AI bias audit practice exercise for product managers
This exercise puts you in charge of an AI triage feature that has just failed a bias audit, deprioritizing lower-income...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoWhat Is an AI Bias Audit?
An AI bias audit is a formal, systematic review of an AI system's outputs to check for unfair or discriminatory...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoWhat Is AI Readiness?
AI readiness is a structured assessment of how prepared an organization's data, infrastructure, talent, and governance...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoWhat Is Responsible AI?
Responsible AI is the set of principles and practices, fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, and safety...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoAI Product Manager Interview Questions
AI product manager interviews layer model-behavior scenarios and eval-design questions onto the standard PM loop...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoMicrosoft AI Product Manager Interview Questions
Microsoft AI product manager interviews, based on public sources only, blend standard product-improvement questions...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoProduct Owner Interview Questions for AI Products
A Product Owner interview for an AI product tests the same backlog and stakeholder fundamentals as any Product Owner...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoIs an AI Product Manager Certification Worth It?
AI product manager certifications range from about $150 total for a self-paced course like IBM's on Coursera to $2,999...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoAI Product Manager Salary
AI product manager salaries in the United States range from a ZipRecruiter average of $159,405 to a Glassdoor average...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoThe AI feature launch checklist product managers run before go/no-go
Do not launch an AI feature until eight gates pass: evals, safety and guardrails, cost, latency, observability...


Andre Albuquerque +2AI-Native vs AI-Enabled Products
Classify your product with one test: switch the model off. If the product still does its core job, it is AI-enabled...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoThe AI product requirements document guide
An AI product requirements document runs eight sections, and each has to prove something rather than describe it: that...


Andre Albuquerque +2Ethical Considerations in AI Product Management
AI product ethics comes down to three practical checks before a feature ships: whether the training data represents the...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoEU AI Act what product managers need to know
Your first decision under the EU AI Act is which of the four risk tiers your feature falls into, because that tier...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoGenerative AI Product Manager Skills Needed
Generative AI product manager skills for 2026 concentrate in four areas: AI and data literacy, prompt design...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoHow to measure success of an AI feature: quality, outcome and cost metrics that have to agree
Measure an AI feature on three layers at once: a quality proxy taken from real usage, the product outcome the feature...


Andre Albuquerque +2How to Price an AI Agent
Price an AI agent in the unit the customer can check: per outcome when the result is observable and attributable, per...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoHow to review an AI written PRD
Reviewing an AI written PRD means running four specific passes: provenance, edge cases, non goals and metrics. The...


Andre Albuquerque +2Prompting vs RAG vs fine-tuning: how a PM decides
Try them in this order: prompting first, RAG when the model lacks your knowledge, and fine-tuning only when a measured...
João AscensãoAI PM vs ML PM
AI PM and ML PM describe the same underlying job at most companies: a product manager who owns a product built on...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoBest AI Product Management Resources for Product Managers
This is the AI product management reading list Builders Camp's own bootcamp points members to: essays from Marty Cagan...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoHow to write a PRD for AI features
An AI feature PRD adds four sections a normal one does not have: the eval set that defines good, the guardrails that...


Andre Albuquerque +2How to Write Evals for AI Products
An eval set is a fixed list of real inputs and the pass or fail rubric you score them against before any prompt or...

Andre Albuquerque & João AscensãoMCP security for product teams, and the approval boundary to agree first
The MCP specification names user consent, data privacy and tool safety as key principles and then states plainly that...


Andre Albuquerque +2When not to use an AI coding agent
An AI coding agent earns its cost on work that is large, mechanical, well specified and reversible, which is a narrower...


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