Emmanuel Paraskakis

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 8

Cohort 9

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

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

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

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

API Fundamentals for Product Managers

Sr Product Manager

Product Management

Product Manager

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

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs

Program Manager 

Director, Product Management 

Manager Digital Business and Transformation

Techical Product Manager

Founder

Head of API Marketplace Engineering

Verisk

Moodys

Oracle

SmartBear

Precisely

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.

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

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

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.

Get Your ChatGPT App Approved by OpenAI

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP Product Management

What’s a good app name, tool descriptions, privacy policy, test account, verified organization, logos and screenshots.

Know what goes into a ChatGPT App submission

Avoid vague tool descriptions, requesting unnecessary data or misleading metadata.

Recognize the common rejection reasons so you can flag risks

Today, you can only sell physical goods, no ads, restricted to a general audience (13+), limited data you can collect.

Understand the current platform constraints

Including what gets locked after approval and when you'd need to re-submit.

Map out a realistic timeline from idea to published app

Design ChatGPT Apps Worth Building

Choose a set of capabilities the model calls mid-conversation, not a replica of your existing product.

Understand what a ChatGPT App actually is

Use OpenAI's "Know, Do, Show" framework and discuss real examples.

Recognize good-fit vs. poor-fit use cases

Before you build an app: Does it need conversation? Can it complete in-chat? Is it something ChatGPT can't already do?

Ask the right scoping questions to ensure success

OpenAI recommends inline cards, carousels, and fullscreen - we'll discuss when each makes sense for your use case.

Know the three display modes for ChatGPT Apps

Build an MCP Server for ChatGPT Apps

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Product

Understand the two main parts (Web component + MCP server) and what the Store will evaluate.

Map ChatGPT Store requirements

Use your existing API to generate tools and host a remote MCP server in under 20 minutes.

Generate a hosted MCP server

Wire the server to a minimal UI and test end-to-end tool calls.

Connect MCP to a simple Web component

Know what to document, test, and package before you submit to the ChatGPT Store.

Submit with a practical checklist

Create MCP Tool Evals Before You Ship

Learn how LLMs select MCP tools, what drives success rate, and common routing failures.

Understand tool calls and failure modes

Install MCPJam, connect to a remote MCP server, and verify tool calls end-to-end.

Set up MCPJam with a sample MCP server

Add sample prompts + assertions to validate tool selection and outputs for key user requests.

Build a repeatable tools eval harness

Execute the harness, read pass/fail results, and diagnose tool mismatches.

Run evals and collect data

How to scale your workflow by with the MCPJam CLI and CI, collect real user prompts, and re-run as APIs and data evolve.

Next Steps: Operationalize evals to prevent drift

Master MCP Essentials for PMs

Understand clients/servers, tools/resources, and how MCP lets agents and LLMs "see" your data.

Explain MCP in plain PM language

Map MCP to agents and connected apps, API strategy, and what it enables for ChatGPT experiences and Store-ready apps.

Spot product bets MCP unlocks

Know what’s stable vs evolving, plus auth, security, and how governance is shaping the protocol.

Assess spec maturity and risks

Add a remote MCP server, and run a few tool calls end-to-end, so you can brainstorm product ideas for the future.

Try MCP inside an LLM (hands-on)

Leave with the key docs, links, resources, and communities to follow as MCP evolves in 2026.

Where to find the best next resources

Upgrade Your API Design with AI

James Higginbotham

API and AI Transformation Coach

We walk you through a complete, annotated design session using the ADDR process (Align, Define, Design, Refine)

Learn a Structured API Design Method

Walk through of an actual API design session that includes prompting tips, guardrails, and example outputs.

Experience a Real API Design Session

Select an LLM model that best fits your needs and is trained to solve API design challenges.

Choose Your Own AI API Design Tools

Use AI to generate job stories, profiles, and OpenAPI specs in minutes.

Cut API Design Time by 60%

Auto-generate high-fidelity OpenAPI 3.1 specs and README documentation that align with your style guide.

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