Enterprise Product System
Enterprise product work has specific demands. These tools are built around them.
Most PM frameworks were built for consumer software. That’s not a criticism; consumer product development has produced genuinely powerful methodologies. But the underlying conditions are different in ways that matter. Enterprise products have orders of magnitude fewer customers, so every signal carries more weight and less statistical confidence — one customer’s idiosyncratic behavior can look like a pattern. Getting a prospect to actually try the product typically involves months of sales cycles and procurement hurdles, not an app store download. And when customers do commit, they expect stability: enterprise buyers don’t celebrate pivots, they escalate them — because changing direction means re-aligning procurement, legal, and every internal stakeholder who signed off on the original deal. Mistakes are slower to surface and more expensive to unwind.
The enterprise frameworks that work at scale are built around those realities. They don’t abandon hypothesis testing or observable data — they enforce rigor about whether an experiment is worth running at all, and whether the signal it produces is strong enough to act on. That discipline is what separates enterprise product work from process as cover.
SDLC System
The SDLC System is a stage-gate product development framework that runs as a Cowork plugin, managing initiatives from opportunity discovery through post-launch signal reporting. Each phase produces a specific artifact; each gate is a real decision point rather than a rubber stamp.
Phases run from opportunity discovery through scoping and engineering handoff into launch and post-launch operating reviews. At each gate, the system checks artifact completeness and produces a decision-ready brief for product leadership. Signal reports after launch track whether the initiative is performing as designed.
Much of what makes stage-gate processes painful is the manual overhead — assembling decision briefs and chasing artifact status before every gate. The SDLC System automates that work so human judgment shows up where it belongs: at the gates, when the real decisions are made.
Product IC Coach
Product IC Coach is a coaching agent built for individual contributors working through the hard parts of PM craft: defining problems worth solving, assessing evidence quality honestly, shaping rough ideas before they harden, and positioning a recommendation so it can survive scrutiny.
The coaching runs in two phases. Phase 1 is Socratic, drawing out the PM’s position before any challenge is made. Phase 2 steelmans the opposition: the strongest case against the current direction. The session ends with a forced synthesis and a recommended position the PM has to respond to.
Specialized skills target the specific places where IC work breaks down. Customer understanding forces clarity on who you’re actually building for, not who you imagine. Problem statement sharpening distinguishes the real problem from its symptoms; evidence audits do the same for signal, separating what you know from what you’re assuming. Idea shaping catches concepts before they harden into briefs they’re not ready for. Prioritization accounts for real capacity, not theoretical capacity.