The document that can replace PRDs — Rags Vadali (Founder & CEO, floto.ai)

About this episode

Rags Vadali discusses the evolution of product management in AI-native environments, focusing on the Product Experience Document.

What does product management look like when your engineers aren't writing code? Rags Vadali, founder of Floto and former PM at Google and Meta, joins Lily and Randy to talk about how building AI-native products has completely inverted his process. No PRDs, prototypes before specs, and a new artefact at the centre of it all: the Product Experience Document (PXD). They get into why the real product when you're building an agent is the experience layer on top of it, how synthetic personas work ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lily, Randy

Guest: Rags Vadali

Topics covered

• product management
• AI-native products
• Product Experience Document
• synthetic personas
• engineering processes

Keywords

• product management
• AI
• Product Experience Document
• PRD
• engineering
• synthetic personas

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: floto.ai, Google, Meta

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