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Emmanuel Paraskakis

3x VP Product (Apiary, Swagger, Oracle) | 1.3M APIs | Founder, Level 250 | Agent-ready APIs & MCP

Cohort 7

Cohort 1 - Build AI-Ready APIs: A Hands-On Workshop for Engineers and PMs

Cohort 1

API Fundamentals for Product Managers, Cohort 2

Cohort 2

Cohort 4

Cohort 3

Cohort 5, API Fundamentals for Product Managers

Cohort 5

API Fundamentals for Product Managers, Cohort 1

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs, Cohort 1

Prolific 1

API Fundamentals for Product Managers, Cohort 3

Prolific 2

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs, Cohort 2

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs Cohort 5

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs - Cohort 6

Cohort 6

Build AI-Ready APIs: A Hands-On Workshop for Engineers and PMs - Cohort 4

API Fundamentals for Product Managers - Cohort 6

Build AI-Ready APIs: A Hands-On Workshop for Engineers and PMs - Cohort 5

Cohort 9

Cohort 8

Cohort 10

Get this 20-point checklist to assess your organization's API Governance readiness.Share the Google Sheet with your team, and once complete, use it as an action list to improve!

API Lifecycle & Governance Checklist

In the coming months, you’ll want to make sure your API Product is usable by Agents. Use this checklist to develop your API Product Roadmap. Score your organization and prioritize the gaps in your roadmap to address them.

Build AI-Ready APIs

Learn about API&nbsp;standards&nbsp;and&nbsp;conventions, and why it's a good idea to adhere to them. Ensure API users are not surprised&nbsp;and make&nbsp;API products usable&nbsp;and compatible with tooling. Contents:<ol><li>Web API Styles and when to use them</li><li>How APls Work</li><li>Naming, Vocabulary, and Data Types/Structures</li><li>Conventions and Best Practices</li><li>API Design Patterns</li><li>Authentication Types and Standards</li></ol>

API Design Fundamentals

❓Most people think API Product Management is a technical discipline. ❗️ But in reality, it's mainly about the business aspects of APIs. ✅ This information sheet clearly explains API business terms, audiences, personas, growth drivers, and high-level use cases to help you ship APIs as Products.

The Business of APIs

🚨 Many API Providers focus on the API and Documentation and forget that API adoption is all about the user journey. 🧑‍💻 But the API Developer's user journey has to be meticulously designed and measured. ✅ Here’s what you should know about the 4 stages of DX onboarding, including goals, metrics and what tools to introduce at each stage.

The Four Stages of the API Developer Experience (DX) Funnel

🧑‍💻 Most API Product Managers go with the metrics collected by engineering. ❌ But your Datadog dashboards alone won’t help you make informed product decisions. ✅ Here’s what you should be tracking (12+4 Metrics) instead and why.

API Metrics for Product Managers

Visualize and plot your API PM Career progress on this canvas from my How to break into API Product Management lesson.

API Product Manager Career Canvas

Everything you need to make your product work for agents. Designed, built, evaluated, and shipped in 3 days.

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

15+ years in APIs | Product Consultant for AI-Forward Companies | 3x VP PM

Build AI-Ready API Products With MCP

Sr Product Manager

Become an expert API Product Manager and learn how to scale and manage an API portfolio.

15+ years in APIs | Product Consultant for SaaS and API Companies | 3x VP PM

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs

Group Product Manager

Become an API Product Manager. Go from generalist to specialist and ship winning API products.

API Fundamentals for Product Managers

Product Management

Product Manager

Open Finance Sr. Product Manager, VP/CSPO

Program Manager 

Director, Product Management 

Manager Digital Business and Transformation

If you’ve shipped an API product already and want to level up your expertise, this course is for you. You’ll learn how to design and deliver API products that meet technical standards but also drive measurable business impact. We’ll go beyond the basics, building APIs that empower both developers and business stakeholders, while solidifying your role as an API thought leader within your organization.You’ll walk away with a practical toolkit for everything from rapid prototyping to scaling API products for high-volume use:Understand APIs at a deeper level, enough to earn the respect of peers, leadership, and technical teams• Drive business impact by setting measurable goals and KPIs for your API products• Build a clear path to product growth through monetization, internal advocacy, and advanced GTM strategies• Deliver a stellar Developer Experience with better documentation, security, and onboarding flows• Become the API champion who can confidently guide decision-making and position APIs strategically in your organizationWhen you complete this course, you’ll have the skills and perspective to deliver real value and confidently guide and scale the next generation of API portfolios.

Accelerate Your Career and Become the Go-To API Expert in Your Organization

Define a Winning API Strategy for the Future

The API Lifecycle: Understand How Great APIs Are Made

Drive API Adoption with an Effective Go-to-Market Strategy

Design and Build a Working API Using Best Practices

Future-Proof and Protect your API Portfolio

Network and Collaborate with your peers

Product Managers with some API PM Experience who want to take on more responsibility and become experts at shipping public and internal API

Product Managers who have shipped API Products but want to gain a deeper understanding and scale to an API Portfolio

Product Leaders who want to hire and manage a team of API Product Managers.

This course will help you bridge the gap between your current expertise and the technical knowledge needed to build products that power experiences for millions of users.Here’s why an API PM role might be your next big career move:• You’ll develop deep technical skills without needing to be a full-time coder.• You can position yourself as a niche specialist, potentially earning a premium salary.• You’ll have greater autonomy once you understand the ins and outs of APIs.• You’ll build and launch products that are core to modern digital ecosystems. API Fundamentals for Product Managers focuses on the essentials, getting you up to speed quickly so you can confidently talk to developers, gather requirements, and launch your first API product.Here’s a preview of what we’ll cover in this live, cohort-based course:• What makes an API Product successful• Gathering API requirements from customers• Examples of strong API design and usability• Building a great Developer Experience as a PM• Monetizing APIs• Key metrics and KPIs for API ProductsBy the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and perspective to deliver real value and confidently guide the next generation of API-driven products.

Are you a PM looking to accelerate your journey into the world of APIs?

Build a Strong API Foundation

Gain Hands-On API Skills

Master the Business of APIs

Deliver Exceptional Developer Experiences

While you don't need API experience, it's a good idea to know PM fundamentals. 

Some Product Management Experience Required

Product Managers with no API experience who want to launch and manage winning API Products.

New API Product Managers who are transitioning into the role.

Leaders who want to hire and manage API Product Managers.

You've spent years perfecting your UI. Flowing experiences, beautiful screens, users glued to your product. Now your users are sending agents instead. The agent doesn't see your UI. It wants the most essential, irreducible form of your product's value - and if it can't get it, it moves on. To a competitor. To scraping. To telling the user it couldn't help.Your only choice is to give agents what they want: APIs, MCP servers, and the interfaces that deliver outcomes without a screen. You may have APIs, but they were built for developers who read docs and ask questions. Agents don't do that.This 3-day intensive course gets you building what agents actually need. Hands-on, not theory. You'll design agent-ready APIs, build and evaluate MCP servers, and ship an MCP App. Taught by a practitioner with the deepest background in APIs and developer products.You'll walk out as the person who's done this, not read about it. The architect who builds for humans and machines. The PM who shipped a working MCP server. The leader others come to when they need to know what's real and what's hype.

Forget how you build products. You're not building for humans anymore.

The 4 things agents want - and one they don't

Design APIs that are agent-ready

What drives MCP usability

Build two MCP Servers and test them

MCP Apps as the next product paradigm

Create an AI-Ready Roadmap for Your Organization

This is a fast-paced, hands-on course, and while you don't need to be a coder, it helps to understand HTTP basics or to have shipped an API.

Some API knowledge is required

Consider taking API Fundamentals for Product Managers first: https://maven.com/emmanuel/api-pm-fundamentals

If you need to brush up on your API skills:

We'll walk you through building with LLMs and AI Codegen tools, even if you've never used them before.

Little or no AI experience is expected

Software Architects &amp; Engineers who want high-quality, scalable tools that Agents will use long into the future.

Product Managers who want to stay ahead of the curve and quickly deliver API and MCP products that win in AI-dominated markets.

Founders &amp; Executives who want to transform their companies and fully leverage AI opportunities and a market of +1.3B users.

3x VP Product (Apiary, Swagger, Oracle) | 1.3M APIs | Agent-ready APIs & MCP

AI Agents will become the largest consumers of APIs and public websites

Get a high-res, printable PDF of the checklist:

The AI-Ready API Checklist

Your product was designed for humans. Your next million users won't be human.

1 month of Claude Pro included. Your users are about to send agents to do their jobs for them. The agent won't click through your UI, sit through your onboarding, or follow your navigation. It will look for an API, an MCP server, a CLI, or a skill. If it can't find one, it moves on.Most products aren't ready for this. APIs built for human developers break when agents try to use them. Naming is vague. Errors don't help. Docs get skipped. Pagination fails. There's no MCP server, no CLI, and the only way in is through a UI that agents can't use.In this workshop, you'll audit your own product through the eyes of an AI agent. You'll see live demos of what agents actually do when they hit your API. They skip your docs, guess from training data, follow descriptions over schemas, and retry from errors. Then you'll run the same experiments yourself.Walk in not knowing if your product works for agents. Walk out with a 12-point agent-readiness checklist for your product, an API standards file you can share with your team, and a Skill you can install to design agent-ready APIs on your own.

API Product Managers who own APIs and need to know if agents can use them. Evaluate before you build.

Software Architects and Tech Leads responsible for API design and infrastructure. Prepare your platform for agent traffic.

Founders and Product Leaders hearing about agent-readiness from customers or competitors. Get a clear picture.

Publish an App to OpenAI's Appstore, for 900 million users.

Intro price: $249 until May 5th! Use code BCA30. 1 month of Fractal Pro included.Do you ever wish you were around when the iPhone Appstore got started? ChatGPT has 900 million weekly users. They can install apps. Yours could be one of them.The opportunity is real but the path is unclear. The SDK docs have errors. The submission form is hostile. The review process is opaque. Hidden requirements that aren't in any documentation. Most people give up before they ship.In this workshop, you'll build a ChatGPT app from scratch using Fractal, a no-code builder for MCP apps. You'll learn the Know / Do / Show framework for what makes a good app, set up developer mode to test locally, and walk through the full submission process including every undocumented gotcha.You'll leave with a working ChatGPT app you tested in developer mode, a month of Fractal Pro to keep building, and a submission checklist covering every rejection reason.There are about 390 apps in the directory today. This is the early iPhone App Store. The builders who show up now will have a head start when the ecosystem takes off.Walk in with an idea. Walk out with an app ready for 900 million users.

Product Managers who want to ship a ChatGPT app for their product and navigate the submission process.

Founders and Makers who want to get into the ChatGPT directory early - about 390 apps today, like the iPhone Appstore in 2008, but for AI.

Engineers who want to prototype their first ChatGPT app with no-code tools and skip the undocumented gotchas.

Your product needs an MCP server for agents to use it. Build it in 3 hours.

Intro price: $249 until April 21st! Use code BMP29.Every AI agent needs a way to reach your product. MCP is how they do it. Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code, all speak MCP. If your product doesn't have an MCP server, agents can't use it.But most teams don't know where to start. What tools should you create? How do you name and describe them so agents actually pick the right one? How do you handle auth, errors, and testing? How do you publish MCP so agents can find it?In this workshop, you'll build two MCP servers from scratch using AI. One from a real API using Zuplo and one from just an idea with Replit. You'll then test them with MCPJam, and see how LLMs and agents use them live.The Eval loop ties it all together: generate test cases, run them against real models, establish a baseline, fix what fails, and re-test until agents pick the right tool every time. We also cover authentication, security, and token costs: the real-world challenges you'll hit when your MCP server goes to production.Walk in curious about MCP. Walk out with two published servers and the skills to build the next one.

API and Platform PMs who need to decide when MCP is the right choice and scope their first server for their product

Engineers and Architects who want to rapidly build an MCP server to start testing tool calls

Technical Founders whose product needs to be discoverable by AI agents and must understand the UX and discoverability of MCP

Go from an idea to a deployed, standards-compliant API in one session.

Intro price: $249 until April 19th! Use code BAF28.You have idea for an API product. Build the first iteration inside of 3 hours so you can validate it in the market.In this workshop, you'll start with a prompt and a set of requirements. By the end, you'll have a standards-compliant API running behind a gateway, with observability, logging, and documentation. Built with AI, validated with real tools, deployed and live.You'll use a repeatable workflow: requirements to user stories, stories to OpenAPI spec, from API design to running code, behind a gateway with rate limiting and auth. Every step uses AI. Every step follows real API standards and best practices. Every step produces an artifact you keep.You'll design the API using a Skill that takes your requirements, domain model, and API standards as markdown files and produces a validated spec. You'll score it for quality and build it with Replit. Then you'll deploy it on an API gateway with authentication, rate limiting, analytics and documentation. You'll watch traffic flow through.Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a running API you can show your team, point an agent at, or build on tomorrow.

API Product Managers who want to prototype an API quickly so they can validate it in the market.

Software Architects who want to have a repeatable, AI-assisted API design workflow end-to-end.

Software Engineers who want to build AI-ready APIs the right way, adhering to standards.

Agent Skills and Why Your Product Needs Them

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP Product Management

Which directories have the best, secure Skills that you can use in AI tools.

Where to find & install Skills

Understand the components of a Skill beyond simple Markdown. Know the risks that malicious Skills can introduce.

What a useful, secure Skill looks like

Skills are useful on their own as instructions or documentation as well as to wrap and enhance your developer tools.

Use cases for Skills in your product

Learn the framework to productize and go to market with agent Skills.

How to build and distribute Skills as part of your product

Good CLI Design is Agent UX

It's not just speed and tokens. Learn what makes CLI the most streamlined interface an agent can use.

Why agents prefer CLI over other interfaces

CLI isn't right for every product or every agent. Know when it fits and when other interfaces work better.

The downsides you need to know about

Tour real CLIs agents love and ones they struggle with. Consistent flags, helpful errors, clean output.

What good CLI design looks like

Where to start with design. What tools are available and how to get started building one for your own product.

How to add a CLI to your product

Build for ChatGPT's New App Store

900M users, a growing directory, and almost nothing in it yet. We'll show you what's out there and what's missing.

Why you're early to the ChatGPT Apps opportunity

Explore the OpenAI directory, Install an app, run it live and understand what experiences are possible.

What's a ChatGPT App and where to find one

What are the best use cases. Which ones are bad. Not every product fits. Know if yours does.

What makes a good ChatGPT App

Know what tools are available, including no-code and how to start building and validating good ideas.

How a ChatGPT App gets built with no code

Why Your Product Needs MCP

Four ways agents access your product. MCP is the only one that works on every surface. Know when & where each one fits.

Know when to use MCP vs APIs, CLIs, and Skills

Understand what Tools, Resources & Prompts are used for and how Descriptions affect Agent UX.

What's inside an MCP server & why it matters

Add a server to Claude, run tasks, and see how the agent picks the right tools in real time.

How to add MCP to an AI tool and use it

How to build your own MCP servers with no-code: tools available to you.

What's it like to build MCP for your product

The Easiest Way to Prototype an API

Your idea is just a hypothesis that you need to validate with actual customers "outside the building". APIs included.

Why customer validation is important for API products

Learn the right way to build prototypes and MVPs, proven by 15+ years of experience and made easy with AI tools.

How to build an API MVP the right way

A high-quality API Spec lets you generate mock API with functional endpoints and documentation you can give to users.

Generating your first prototype in minutes

You'll take away the tools to compile your feedback into Spec changes, ready for building your API product.

How to gather and use customer feedback for API products

Why Agents Can't Use Your Product

Agents are smart but they also seek the quickest cheapest path to an outcome. We'll show you where they fail.

Why your product is hard for agents to use

Ideally you'll have one or more ways for agents to use tools and not have to scrape pages. We'll show what to use when.

Four things agents want and one they don't

We'll show you how to come up with a list of prompts and desired/undesired outcomes so you can test your own product.

How to check if your APIs are usable by agents

You'll take away a high-level plan and a 12-point checklist so you can get started towards agent-friendly API products.

Emmanuel Paraskakis will help you build what agents want

Emmanuel Paraskakis

About Emmanuel

Courses

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs

API Fundamentals for Product Managers

Build AI-Ready API Products With MCP

Workshops

What Agents Want from Your Product

Build a ChatGPT App with AI

Build an MCP Product with AI

Build an API-First Product with AI

Lightning Lessons