Rapid AI Research for PMs: Decision-Ready Customer Insights in Hours - not Weeks

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4 - 5 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Master AI-powered tools for Product Discovery, Continuous Discovery & Concept Testing and elevate your strategic impact.

CLASS PARTICIPANTS FROM

Meta
Microsoft
Huge
Canva
Pinterest

Course overview

AI Sprints, Continuous Loops, Concept Tests & Synthetic Users—All Human-Verified

Product success hinges on timely insight—yet most Product Managers either can’t find the hours or lack the tooling to run research themselves. This four-week, hands-on program equips experienced PMs with an AI discovery stack that shrinks research from weeks to hours, then verifies every output with human-in-the-loop checks, so every roadmap call is grounded in fresh, trustworthy evidence rather than gut feel.


You’ll master AI across four mutually reinforcing practices:


1. AI-Powered Product Discovery Sprints – Run global, scaled, multilingual AI-moderated interviews overnight, auto-cluster themes you can spot-check in-app, and verify problem/solution fit before engineering lifts a finger.


2. Continuous Discovery Loops – Pipe tickets and call notes into AI tools so they can surface both trend shifts and links to raw verbatims for quick validation so you pivot with confidence.


3. Rapid Concept Testing – Launch rapid, scaled concept tests and receive summaries and AI-cut highlight reels; side-by-side raw footage lets you confirm the insight before you decide Go / Iterate / Kill.


4. Synthetic-User Studies – Spin up credible AI personas to test hypotheses, expand your thinking, and probe edge cases, then triangulate findings with live users to ensure accuracy and relevance.


WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT


Practical, hands-on guidance – Live demos and guided exercises show exactly how to slot AI workflows into your existing product cadence.


• Time-saving techniques – Automate heavy-lift tasks such as concept-test setup, participant scheduling and interview analysis, freeing hours for strategy.


• Curated AI tool stack – A focused toolkit proven to accelerate discovery, synthesis and validation is shared without overwhelming you, and saving hours of hunting for the right tools.


• Real-World Application: Engage in weekly practical exercises and projects using real-world product challenges, providing immediate feedback and hands-on learning that builds confidence and capability.


• Expert Insights & Support: Access detailed playbooks, best-practice examples, and exclusive resources designed explicitly for Product Managers integrating AI into their research processes.


WHAT MAKES THIS CLASS UNIQUE


 Direct access to enterprise-grade platforms and their founders: Experience full-featured trials and hear directly from tool founders innovators live in class about how AI is reshaping product discovery – and get your specific questions answered.


• Balanced focus on tools and prompt engineering – Gain skills that transfer even when procurement or policy limits access to third-party software. Know how to get the most out of prompting to accelerate your research.


• Collaborative, Hands-On Learning: Participate in live workshops that combine expert guidance, interactive practice, and peer collaboration to solve real-world research challenges.


COURSE FORMAT


Live workshops – Four 120-minute sessions, each run twice every Thursday (1-3 pm ET & 7-9 pm ET) for flexibility and small groups.


Homework sprints – About one to two hours between sessions applying the week’s method to real-world scenarios.


Weekly Q&A – Live office hours for personalized troubleshooting and deeper dives.


Recordings & resources – On-demand videos, walkthroughs, prompt libraries and checklists.


By the end of the course you’ll capture, synthesize and verify customer insights in a single day, enabling faster, confidently user-aligned product decisions and elevating your strategic impact as a PM.

Who is this course for

01

Time-pressed PMs who need fresh user evidence to ship features—without waiting on a research team.

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PMs eager to fold AI-powered discovery loops and concept tests into their workflow in weeks, not quarters.

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Senior product leaders seeking confident, user-centric roadmap calls via rapid synthetic-user & qual-at-scale studies.

Walk away with a plug-and-play AI research toolkit—sprints, loops, concept tests & synthetic users you can deploy tomorrow.

AI-powered Product Discovery Sprints that de-risk your roadmap before any code is written

Run AI-moderated interviews overnight, auto-cluster patterns with LLMs, then review transcripts to confirm themes and share a decision-ready summary before the next stand-up.

Continuous Discovery Loops — Signal + Evidence

Feed support tickets, call notes and survey feedback into an AI tagging pipeline that flags emerging trends, bundles linked verbatims for quick validation and alerts you only when a real shift appears.

Lightning-Fast Concept Tests — Decision Data in Hours

Launch lightning-fast AI surveys + AI-powered interviews, collect video reactions, and test prototypes in minutes. Translate sentiment and usability signals into clear decisions so you can iterate in days, not quarters.


Synthetic-User Studies — A New Always-On Low-Risk Resource

Generate realistic AI personas to probe edge cases, test assumptions, and surface unmet needs—then validate insights with a quick round of live user checks. Learn how to ask "impossible questions" you could never customers.

This course includes

9 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

11 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

3 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

Jun 19—Jun 22

    Session 1. AI-Powered Product Discovery Sprints

    • Jun

      19

      Rapid AI Research for PMs - Class 1

      Thu 6/195:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    • Jun

      19

      Rapid AI Research for PMs - Class 1 (repeat)

      Thu 6/1911:00 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
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Week 2

Jun 23—Jun 29

    Session 2. Rapid Concept Validation Using AI

    • Jun

      26

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 2

      Thu 6/265:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    • Jun

      26

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 2 (repeat)

      Thu 6/2611:00 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
    2 more items

Week 3

Jun 30—Jul 6
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Week 4

Jul 7—Jul 13

    Session 3. Mastering AI Qualitative Data Analysis

    • Jul

      10

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 3

      Thu 7/105:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    • Jul

      10

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 3 (repeat)

      Thu 7/1011:00 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
    2 more items

Week 5

Jul 14—Jul 17

    Session 4. AI-Enhanced Surveys and Continuous Discovery

    • Jul

      17

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 4

      Thu 7/175:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    • Jul

      17

      AI-Powered Customer Research for PMs - Class 4 (Repeat)

      Thu 7/1711:00 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
    1 more item

Post-course

    5. Post-Course Strategic Action Plan

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Bonus

    6. Bonus Materials: Guidebooks, Frameworks, Report & Tool List

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From AI for Customer Research Attendees

        This course lets me focus on a new topic without needing extensive resources. It includes AI research tools, engaging discussions, and practical homework applicable to research. John shares insights from his successful consulting business, making this course especially valuable.
Chris

Chris

Group Creative Director, Deloitte
        John is a very good instructor who knows how to organize content, make it digestible and focus the class time around value add discussion and testing (vs. regurgitating class reading).
Abigail

Abigail

Principal Product Director, Service Titan
        This course was exactly what I needed to make sense of how AI can actually support research in a meaningful way. It was practical, hands-on, and full of real-world applications I can start using right away. John is an incredibly knowledgeable instructor who brings clarity and depth to a fast-moving, often overwhelming topic. Highly recommend to any
Len

Len

Senior Researcher, Huge
        This was a very useful, practical class taught in a thoughtful way. I've been doing user research for 14 years and was intimidated by the array of new tools and knowing what to try in this AI landscape. I really appreciated John's expert user research knowledge, as well as his generous approach to sharing tools and knowledge.
Jenny

Jenny

Lead, Bay Bridge UX

Meet your instructor

John Whalen

John Whalen

I lead Insights & Innovation at Brilliant Experience, where I help global brands understand the psychology behind their customers' behaviors and bring successful products to market.


Initially skeptical about AI, my team and I conducted extensive “AI vs. Humans” studies to pinpoint precisely where AI-enhanced research excels—and where human judgment remains irreplaceable. I became convinced that AI will transform how research will be done.


I think it is important to show how AI tools make research vastly easier to design, run and analyze – making these tools highly suitable for product managers and others not dedicated to research.


Now I regularly interview pioneering founders in the AI-for-UX space and leverage the latest AI tools to deliver rapid, scaled, global insights for top brands.


With a PhD from Johns Hopkins, I combine academic rigor with real-world pragmatism to help you harness the new realities of AI-powered research.

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June-July 2025

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Dates

June 19—July 18, 2025

Payment Deadline

June 18, 2025

August 2025

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July 31—Aug 22, 2025

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Course schedule

4 hours per week

  • Thursdays

    1-3 pm EST or 7-9 pm EST (your choice)

    Interactive workshop: Learn new concepts and get set up to conduct hands-on training with AI-powered research tools.


    Workshops are being run identically in the afternoon and evening so that you can pick what works best for you!

  • Weekly projects

    2 hours per week

    Test and master AI-powered tools for Product Discovery, Continuous Discovery and Concept Testing. Determine which tools are right for you.

  • Office hours

    2 hours per week

    Optional time to meet with the session host and get 1:1 advice and support.

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

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A pattern of wavy dots

Join an upcoming cohort

Rapid AI Research for PMs: Decision-Ready Customer Insights in Hours - not Weeks

June-July 2025

$1,495

Dates

June 19—July 18, 2025

Payment Deadline

June 18, 2025

August 2025

$1,495

Dates

July 31—Aug 22, 2025

Payment Deadline

July 31, 2025
Get reimbursed

$1,495

4 - 5 Weeks