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 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

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.

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.

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.

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