Mastering AI Product Strategy: From Ideas to MVP

4.3 (9)

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2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn to strategize, validate, and plan AI products that deliver value. Leave with a plan to build your first Minimum *Lovable* AI Product!

Previously at

Amazon
Google
Uber
Stanford University
MIT research group

Course overview

Plan Your First AI Prototype with Help from Seasoned AI Professionals

The AI Revolution is Just Beginning

Since ChatGPT's landmark debut in late 2022, we've witnessed a seismic shift in how businesses and consumers view AI. What started as a fascinating chatbot has sparked a fundamental transformation across industries. Large Language Models, once considered cutting-edge, are now table stakes. As we move from GenAI to Agentic AI, the pace of innovation shows no signs of slowing.

The message is clear: AI isn't just another tech trend—it's becoming the core of how products and services will be built and delivered. Whether you're in B2C or B2B, your products will either evolve to leverage AI or risk becoming obsolete.


The AI Execution Challenge

But here's the paradox: While AI technology races forward, many product teams are still struggling with the basics of building successful AI products. If you're a product or design leader, you've likely experienced the pressure to "get something out there with AI." Companies are rushing to implement solutions, driven by top-down mandates, competitive pressure, or technological FOMO.

The reality? Successful AI products aren't born from rushing to implementation. They come from thoughtful strategy, careful validation, and deliberate planning that creates genuine value for users and business.


Right now, teams are:

- Jumping into AI implementation without proper strategic deliberation

- Struggling to identify which problems truly need AI solutions

- Missing alignment with critical user needs in the rush to deploy

- Lacking frameworks to evaluate and validate AI opportunities

- Unable to effectively communicate the "why" behind AI initiatives


But does it have to be this way?


You can learn to evaluate and strategize AI initiatives with confidence. You can develop clear frameworks for validating AI opportunities. You can create compelling roadmaps that align stakeholders around a shared vision.

This is exactly what you'll master in this course.


What you will learn:


- How to identify which problems truly need AI solutions

- How to evaluate AI opportunities using proven frameworks

- How to build user trust in AI through thoughtful design

- How to craft AI experiences users will actually adopt

- How to validate AI features before heavy investment

- How to choose the right AI interfaces for your use case

- How to define data requirements for AI success

- How to plan for responsible AI implementation

- How to measure AI product success meaningfully

- How to communicate AI strategy to stakeholders

- How to align teams around your AI vision

- How to create AI roadmaps that drive real value

- How to assess technical feasibility early

- How to prototype AI features with no-code tools to get buy-in


Our Approach

This course is designed to transform how you think about and approach AI product opportunities.


If you engage fully with the course, you'll make a fundamental shift from "How do we add AI to our product?" to "How do we strategically create value with AI?" You'll develop the muscle memory to instantly recognize good AI opportunities, ask the right questions, and make informed strategic decisions.


Throughout the program, we'll move beyond theoretical frameworks to tackle real challenges you're facing through AMA sections of the workshop.


We'll explore the nuances of different AI use cases, examine edge cases that challenge conventional thinking, and work through examples that build your strategic instincts. Every framework and approach we teach comes from real-world experience leading AI initiatives—successes and failures included.


We've specifically designed this course to build your confidence through practice. Each week builds upon the previous learnings, helping you develop a natural intuition for AI product strategy.


All sessions are recorded, and frameworks are documented so you can revisit and reinforce your learning as you lead future AI initiatives.

Who is this course for

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Product Leaders & Founders

Leading AI initiatives or building AI products? Learn to evaluate opportunities and create roadmaps that deliver

02

Design & Research Leaders

Shape the future of AI experiences. Learn to uncover user needs, design trustworthy AI interactions, and validate

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Innovation Consultants

Guide clients through AI transformation. Learn frameworks to evaluate opportunities and create actionable strategies

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This course is NOT for aspiring product and business leaders hoping to use AI to gain their first experience in software development.

Key Outcomes

Define Winning AI Opportunities

Learn to identify and validate AI opportunities that deliver real value. Move beyond the hype to uncover genuine user needs and business opportunities that AI can uniquely solve.


Craft AI User Experiences

Master the principles of designing AI interfaces that users trust and love. Learn to create experiences that balance automation with user control, transparency with simplicity.

Create Actionable AI Strategies

Develop comprehensive strategies that address data requirements, model selection, and technical feasibility. Learn to make informed decisions about AI capabilities and resource needs.


Design for Trust & Adoption

Master the principles of AI product design that build user confidence. Learn how to create experiences that are transparent, intuitive, and aligned with user expectations in the AI era.


Drive Stakeholder Alignment

Build compelling narratives around your AI initiatives. Create strategic documents and presentations that communicate your vision and gain buy-in from leadership and stakeholders.


Evaluate Technical Approaches

Learn to assess AI implementation options and make informed decisions about technology choices. Develop criteria for selecting the right tools and approaches that align with your product goals.


Build Your Strategic Portfolio

Create a portfolio of strategic artifacts including opportunity assessments, user journey maps, data strategies, and product roadmaps that showcase your AI product leadership capabilities.

This course includes

Interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

19 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Mar 3—Mar 9

    Module 1: Foundations of AI Product Discovery

    4 items

    Module 2: Designing AI Products for Trust & Adoption

    3 items

Week 2

Mar 10—Mar 16

    Module 3: Building Viable AI Data & Technical Plans

    5 items

    Module 4: Validating Your AI Product Strategy

    7 items

4.3 (9 ratings)

What students are saying

Who Will Benefit Most From This Course

This course is for you if you're a Product Manager who is:

  • Leading or planning AI product initiatives
  • Identifying AI opportunities across products
  • Creating AI-driven product roadmaps
  • Balancing user needs & business goals

This course is for you if you're a Design Leader who is:

  • Shaping how users interact with AI in your products
  • Ensuring AI enhances rather than complicates the experience
  • Building user trust through transparent AI interactions
  • Considering responsible AI principles in design

This course is for you if you're an IC who is:

  • Launching new AI features or transforming existing products
  • Creating structured approaches for AI implementation
  • Aligning stakeholders around your AI vision & roadmap
  • Building frameworks for successful AI product development

This course is for you if you're part of a team that is:

  • Shifting focus from traditional to AI-driven products
  • Making strategic decisions about AI implementation
  • Developing frameworks for AI product success
  • Shaping AI strategies and product vision

What past students are saying

        This program is fantastic! As part of the first cohort, I often refer back to it. Polly M. Allen and Rupa Chaturvedi bring top-tier Product Thought Leadership and are genuinely invested, empathetic, and patient mentors, deeply committed to cohort members’ growth. Highly recommended!
Harsha Srivatsa

Harsha Srivatsa

Product Builder/Solutions Creator
        Very in-depth knowledge and real world hands on experience shared, and it was a very engaging discussion! TYSM Rupa and Polly for the extra time to answer questions at the end; extremely valuable to get your feedback on a question and to learn from how others are also thinking through this.
Muxin Li

Muxin Li

Senior Product Manager
        Knowledgeable hosts/instructors. Great examples and framework using JTBD and attaching it to measurable impact/value.
Joshua Kinberg

Joshua Kinberg

Director, Product Management
        We went through a lot of technical content but it was able to follow along. Appreciated the break-out room and have the opportunity to discuss my use case with cohort participants.
Vijita Salotra

Vijita Salotra

Digital marketing strategy
        Theory plus real life example, and clear path to action for me. This was an outstanding delivery of framework, template, examples and case studies. I can leave this course with clear action.
David Taylor

David Taylor

Founder
        The real world examples that Polly and Rupa shared were fantastic- no theory, the information is based on real use cases, successes and fails.
Gwendolyn Elder

Gwendolyn Elder

Product Designer

Why This Course is Different

AI Industry Experts - With Teaching Experience

With rich backgrounds in innovation in world-leading companies, Polly and Rupa have been teaching AI for product and business leaders since March 2023. Together they have taught over 1,000 students.

A Track Record of Excellence

Our first course on Maven was one of the highest-rated in Maven's history (with a 4.9/5 rating over 6 cohorts.) We have taught across Maven, Reforge, the Human AI Institute and AI Career Boost, and have taught invited lectures at Stanford, Berkeley and MIT.

A Focus on Hands-On Learning

We get consistent feedback that people love how actionable our courses are. Grounded in theory, we provide frameworks from industry and real-world case studies that help you apply these concepts right away.

Meet your instructors

Rupa Chaturvedi

Rupa Chaturvedi

Rupa Chaturvedi is a seasoned product design leader with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, having worked at companies such as Amazon (Alexa AI), Google, Uber and pioneering AI startups.

She is the founder of Human Centered AI Institute, offering corporate training and individual coaching programs in AI product development and design.

Her fingerprints are all over the AR/AI/ML/Computer Vision consumer technologies we use today, including AR and Conversational AI enabled consumer experiences at Amazon and Uber.

She holds a MS Degree in Product Design from Stanford University and a PG Diploma in Creative Leadership from THNK, Amsterdam.

She has published over 18 patents in this space, teaches UX Design for AI applications at Stanford University and advises/invests in food startups.

As a visionary in the field, Rupa has dedicated her career to humanizing technology and uplifting others through her work and mentorship.


Polly Allen

Polly Allen

Polly Allen has over 20 years experience developing software, building and leading software teams and most recently leading cross-functional science and engineering teams as a Principal Product Manager for Alexa AI at Amazon. Her expertise is focused in natural language use cases, such as search and discovery, natural language understanding and generation, and she led the development and launch of the first automatically-generated summaries of web content on Alexa in 2020. (And yes, it used transformer models like those that drive ChatGPT!) As a leader in the intersection of Product Management and Machine Learning, she is passionate about DEI in the space and empowering more people to understand, leverage and participate in the field. She is an experienced angel investor and past corporate board member, has advised multiple startups, and speaks on panels and conferences about Product Management, Ethics and DEI in AI. She holds a M.Sc. in Software Engineering from MIT and the University of Victoria, and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

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Course schedule

4-6 hours per week

  • Tuesday, December 3rd

    8:00 - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    AI Product Discovery Workshop

    This workshop includes time to practice the frameworks we're learning with group breakouts and hands-on exercises. Recording will be available.

  • Wednesday, December 4th

    8:00 - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    Design Considerations for AI Systems

    Get ready to tour the world of innovative UI user experiences. Recording will be available.

  • Tuesday, December 10th

    8:00am - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    Data & Technical Plans for AI Products

    We'll dive deep into data considerations and how to choose between emerging architecture frameworks in AI systems. Recording will be available.

  • Wednesday, December 11th

    8:00 - 9:30 am

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    AI Protoyping and Validation

    Get ready for a fast-paced ride through the world of tool for AI prototyping and validation. Recording will be available.

  • Weekly projects

    2-3 hours per week

    Put aside 2-3 hours to work on your AI project idea between sessions. You'll be guided with a workbook to consider the most important decision points.

  • Network & Get Feedback

    As Needed

    Join our Slack community that lives on even beyond the course! Network with like-minded product and design leaders, and get feedback on your projects and progress.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Mastering AI Product Strategy: From Ideas to MVP

Cohort 2

$899

Dates

Mar 3—16, 2025

Payment Deadline

Mar 3, 2025
Get reimbursed

$899

4.3 (9)

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2 Weeks