Context Architecture for Business Analysts and Product Owners
Illia Shapoval
PM, 13+ years of product craftsmanship
Become a Context Architect: AI-Assisted Requirements Engineering
If you don't curate what your AI assistant knows about your product, you get output that's polished on the surface and empty underneath.
The other extreme — "give it all the context" — is worse. Do you even have all the context for your product? Would you want to feed every Confluence page, every PRD revision, every deprecated business rule into the prompt?
There are real tools for requirements quality. Each fits a moment:
RAG pipelines — powerful, but expensive to build and to maintain.
Mega-prompts — thorough, but they dilute the answer.
Confluence dumps — comprehensive, but light on specifics.
Letting the AI manage its own context — convenient, but it takes the wheel from you.
This workshop gives you the system that costs the least to start and scales with your product.
You walk out with a starter context base, your own agents.md, your SKILL.mds, one feature specced end to end, and a system you can shape as you go.
I spent a year sharpening this. Now it saves me days.
What you’ll learn
Engineer a compact context system that turns a four-line brief into a spec draft your team trusts — on your product, in your template.
Decompose any requirement into the context blocks an AI can address — users, data, workflows, processes, domain, business rules
Separate context-dependent quality (valuable, testable, relevant) from prompt-dependent quality (unambiguous, readable)
Diagnose why a "complete-looking" spec is actually hollow
Construct the addressable folder structure your AI reads from
Teach the AI to maintain the content itself, so they never go stale.
Compose a `SKILL.md` and your own `agent.md` that turn the context base into a working system
Lock the AI to attributes it can actually see — no invented fields, no hallucinated rules
Promote new business rules, user groups, and entities from each ticket back into the base — without bloating it
You'll leave able to tune and rebuild this system for any product you own
Workshop agenda
Welcome and use-case round
Share examples and goals for the session
Setup the environment
Set up tools + the LLM of choice
Context Engineering basics
Rules for context management applied to requirements
Requirements qualities
Align on requirements qualities and dissect an example
Build-along: wiring context system together
Build agents.md + extraction skill.md
Build-along: create a first requirement draft
draft skill and template
Context population flywheel
Run the skill based on the draft created
Case clinic & Q&A
Bring the example that didn't fit
Who this workshop is for
You're a Business Analyst or Requirements Engineer who owns product documentation, and you want a system for AI-assisted requirements work
You're a Product Manager or a PO who needs AI as a specification sidekick, not a chatty assistant you re-brief from scratch on every task.
You've tried "shove all the context in" — and watched the output get more generic, not less. Ready for a tested framework that fixes it.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Illia Shapoval in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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