Validate Real Demand
Use AI-assisted research and real user conversations to identify pain points, willingness to pay, and product signals before building.
Go from idea to working product without a technical team. Marily Nika teaches the product development process, shows how AI replaces work you would otherwise hire for, and gives you a practical path to a working prototype with real user feedback.
Use AI-assisted research and real user conversations to identify pain points, willingness to pay, and product signals before building.
Turn validated insights into a prioritized PRD that clarifies users, use cases, success metrics, and the smallest valuable feature set.
Set up product, customer, engineering, and risk reviewers to pressure-test assumptions, scope, privacy, feasibility, and overpromising.
Generate and refine UI concepts from product requirements, then move selected screens into the right no-code or AI builder.
Use clickable prototypes to gather evidence while defining MVP tests around desirability, feasibility, business viability, and the riskiest assumption.
Create rubrics and evaluation loops that score AI outputs for relevance, groundedness, completeness, safety, and hallucination risk.
2 parts · 13 chapters

Founder of AI Product Academy
Marily Nika is the founder of the AI Product Academy, which certifies AI product managers. She spent over 12 years building AI products at Google and Meta, holds a PhD in machine learning from Imperial College London, and is a best-selling author, TED AI speaker, and fellow at Harvard Business School. She writes about AI in the AI Product Academy Newsletter on Substack.