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João Ascensão

João Ascensão

VP of AI, OutSystems | Invited Professor, ISCTE-IUL | Founder LP, Shilling VC

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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...

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What 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...

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What Is AI Readiness?

AI readiness is a structured assessment of how prepared an organization's data, infrastructure, talent, and governance...

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What Is Responsible AI?

Responsible AI is the set of principles and practices, fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, and safety...

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AI Product Manager Interview Questions

AI product manager interviews layer model-behavior scenarios and eval-design questions onto the standard PM loop...

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Microsoft AI Product Manager Interview Questions

Microsoft AI product manager interviews, based on public sources only, blend standard product-improvement questions...

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Product 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...

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Is 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...

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AI Product Manager Salary

AI product manager salaries in the United States range from a ZipRecruiter average of $159,405 to a Glassdoor average...

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The 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...

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AI-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...

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The AI product requirements document guide

An AI product requirements document runs eight sections, and each has to prove something rather than describe it: that...

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Ethical Considerations in AI Product Management

AI product ethics comes down to three practical checks before a feature ships: whether the training data represents the...

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EU 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...

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Generative AI Product Manager Skills Needed

Generative AI product manager skills for 2026 concentrate in four areas: AI and data literacy, prompt design...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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How to review an AI written PRD

Reviewing an AI written PRD means running four specific passes: provenance, edge cases, non goals and metrics. The...

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Prompting 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...

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AI 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...

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Best 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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MCP 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...

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When 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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