Encode your favorite PM frameworks into reusable, systematic tools
Tristan Rodman shows how to encode PM frameworks into reusable Cursor rules for systematic interview synthesis and PRD creation.“The frameworks folder has a number of Cursor rules based on activities that are outlined in some of my favorite PM lit,” he explains. “You can think of these rules as specific instructions for an LLM to go about a task. Same systematic approach you’d use when applying these frameworks for your product work. It’s a prompt you can save and reuse.”Following Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, he created an interview guide and mocked up user interviews. “It’s really hard to replace the intuition and practice of doing these interviews, but synthesizing snapshots after the fact, that’s where I need a lot of help. If I don’t do that in the meeting it never gets done.”Using his “create interview snapshot” rule, he processes three transcripts. “Using the at key to bring in different documents really feels like you’re just tagging in different bits of context.” The rule produces methodical interview snapshots for each participant.“You can start to see some trends are emerging. Everyone’s frustrated by time signatures. Cool, makes a lot of sense.” He chains documents through, using another rule for synthesizing the interview snapshots into a full readout. “I brought the whole folder in. We’re gonna produce a whole research readout.”From there, he creates a PRD with another rule. “Make a PRD for adding time signatures. One of the parts of the PRD rule is it asking me for some clarifying questions. Some questions about scope, some questions about visualization UI design. For the purposes of this demo, I’m being super lazy, and I’ve told Claude, use your best judgment based on the interviews.”➡️ Create Cursor rules for your favorite PM frameworks. Tag interview transcripts with @, run your synthesis rule, chain the outputs into research readouts, then generate PRDs. Your frameworks become reusable, systematic tools.