Turn a Vague Executive AI Ask Into a Problem You Can Defend

Hosted by Freddy Alcántara

Mon, Aug 10, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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The Claude-Powered PM
Freddy Alcántara
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What you'll learn

Four questions that turn a vague ask into a real problem

A problem statement you can defend in a room of skeptics, before you write a line of code or a word of spec.

The five things that belong on a one page concept brief

Including the one almost everyone skips. This is what you hand a VP when they ask what problem this solves.

A live worked example, using a real situation

Bring a real ask you are stuck on. I will work through one of them live, start to finish.

Why this topic matters

Your manager, your head of product, or someone in the C-suite asks you to get AI into the product by next quarter. Nobody hands you a method. They hand you a mandate. Most product people open the tool and build a demo. Then a vice president asks what problem this solves and how you will know it worked, and the demo stops helping. For product managers tired of tutorials that do not survive a VP.

You'll learn from

Freddy Alcántara

Founder, o1 Labs. AI educator, 2,000+ trained. Ex-J.P. Morgan, Raytheon, NBC

Most AI training makes the tools the point. They're not. The point is what you can do once the overwhelm is gone.

I'm Freddy Alcántara, founder of o1 Labs. I've trained 2,000+ professionals, more than 800 of them in applied AI, from enterprise teams to early-stage founders. Before o1 Labs, I spent two decades in product and design across J.P. Morgan, BMO, Raytheon, and NBCUniversal, so I know how organizations actually adopt new tools.

o1 Labs teaches AI the practical way: plain English first, hands-on always, no jargon. My first course, The Claude-Powered PM, takes you from a fuzzy AI product problem to a working prototype and a stakeholder-ready pitch in three weeks. More courses are coming, across the tools you actually use.

Come build with me.

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BNY
NBC
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