Brandon Coates.
The Product Board

Choose your product journey.

Innovation Is A Process, Prototype By Friday, Make The Demo Work, Useful Beats Impressive, Start With A Prototype, AI Without The Hype, The Weird Edge Cases Matter, Turn Ideas Into Working Software, Test It With Real People, Make Something Useful
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Explore My Pokédex.

Start Your Agent Journey

They all run on Alysium. One's live. Two are still evolving. Pick Your Starter!

Career Agent reads your résumé and answers the questions recruiters actually ask. Kind-of-a-Dick pressure-tests your product strategy before an exec does. Evil Marketing Genius finds the launch angle polite brainstorming misses. These are your starters. The full Pokédex is there when you're ready to pick your fighter.

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Career Agent

Upload your résumé. Meet its new advocate.

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Upload your résumé and it answers the questions a recruiter actually asks. Led teams? Shipped anything real? Worth a call? It's the same trick my own agent runs for me, pointed at you instead. Want one of your own? That's an afternoon on Alysium.

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Kind-of-a-Dick

Your product strategy, minus the encouragement.

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Paste your strategy and it plays the exec who isn't impressed. It pokes your assumptions, your sequencing, your 'why now.' It's a dick on purpose, because the board will be too, and at least this one's free.

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Evil Marketing Genius

Go-to-market for people who skipped the ethics slides.

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Tell it what you're launching and it cooks up the play your competitors won't see coming. Runs on a subversive-marketing skill I'm still building, so it gets nastier every week.

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Writing

Everything I've written, on a 2×2

Drag the writing around the quadrants, sort the Done rail, or hit Randomize. Click any card to read it.

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This one's way more fun on a laptop — you get to fling these around a 2×2. Here's my latest for now.

Cut-paper collage blog header An original editorial collage with torn lavender paper, sky-blue labels, halftone shapes, fragmented type, and a bold integrated headline. FIELD NOTES / AGENTS / 001 FEATURED ↗ ONE PROMPT 45 AGENTS YOU TYPED ONE THING. SUBJECT / PORTRAIT MEDIUM / 6 MIN READ / AUGUST 2026
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LinkedIn · Aug 2026
How to train your AI A neo-brutalist editorial header presenting five ascending levels of AI training: prompting, RAG, knowledge graphs, fine-tuning, and training from scratch. AI / PRODUCT MANAGEMENT / BUSINESS STRATEGY FIELD GUIDE THE FIVE LEVELS OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR AI DRAGON TRAINING? NO. PICK THE LIGHTEST TOOL THAT WORKS 1 PROMPT HOURS / DAYS 2 RAG DAYS / WEEKS 3 KNOWLEDGE GRAPH MONTHS 4 FINE-TUNE 6+ MONTHS 5 TRAIN FROM SCRATCH MAX COST MORE CONTROL → MORE DATA + TIME + COST + RISK
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Medium · Feb 2025
Can AI count? A neo-brutalist editorial header showing tap sequences for prime numbers entering an AI model that incorrectly declares Fibonacci, illustrating prediction without verification. AI / REASONING / PATTERN RECOGNITION CASE STUDY THE CURIOUS CASE OF CAN AI COUNT? THINKING ≠ PREDICTING INPUT / COUNT THE TAPS 02 03 05 07 11 MODEL SAYS FIBO— NACCI! CONFIDENTLY. ACTUAL PATTERN: PRIME NUMBERS → 2 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 11 PREDICTION IS NOT VERIFICATION / FLUENCY IS NOT REASONING
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Medium · Feb 2025

Let's build something people love

Hiring, collaborating, or just want to argue about whether your feature needs a model? Ask my career agent in the corner — it knows my work better than my resume does.

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