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How to Go from Product Idea to Prototype in 20 Minutes with an AI-Enhanced PM Workflow

Learn Marily Nika's rapid product development cycle using a chain of AI tools. Go from user research with Perplexity to a PRD with a custom GPT, a v0 prototype, and a promotional video with Sora in under 20 minutes.

From How I AI

How I AI: Marily Nika’s AI Native PM Workflow (Perplexity, Veo, v0, Notebook LM)

with Claire Vo

How to Go from Product Idea to Prototype in 20 Minutes with an AI-Enhanced PM Workflow

Tools Used

v0

Vercel AI UI generator

Perplexity

AI search engine

Sora

OpenAI's AI video generation model

ChatGPT

OpenAI conversational AI

Step-by-Step Guide

1

Conduct Instant User Research with Perplexity

Start by validating your product idea and understanding user sentiment. Use Perplexity's 'Discussions' focus to search forums like Reddit for unfiltered opinions. Then, use the 'Debate Technique' to surface the strongest arguments for and against your idea, revealing the minimum features needed for success.

Prompt:
Create two agents, one that is pro smart fridge and one that is against smart fridge. Use everything you read and have these two agents debate at least, I dunno, like 20 times about it, and give me the minimum set of features I would need in order to convince the against agent.
Pro Tip: This technique helps avoid confirmation bias and forces the AI to surface genuine user concerns and critical feature requirements.
2

Generate a Product Requirements Document (PRD) with a Custom GPT

Take the minimum feature set generated by Perplexity and use it to create a full PRD. This is best done with a custom GPT in ChatGPT that has been pre-configured with your preferred PRD template and writing style.

Prompt:
generate a PRD about a smart fridge that has these features
Pro Tip: Creating a custom GPT for your common documents (PRDs, creative briefs, etc.) can save hours of formatting and boilerplate writing.
3

Create a Clickable UI Prototype with v0.dev

Turn your text-based PRD into a tangible, interactive UI prototype. Copy the entire PRD generated by your custom GPT and paste it directly into v0.dev to generate a visual dashboard for your product.

Prompt:
Create the UI of a smart fridge, given this PRD as an input
Pro Tip: A visual prototype is far more effective for stakeholder reviews than a document alone. It helps everyone see, touch, and feel the product vision.
4

Sell the Vision with an AI-Generated Video

Create a short promotional or vision video to showcase the user experience. Use a text-to-video tool like Google's Flow or OpenAI's Sora, providing your core feature list as the basis for the video's narrative.

Prompt:
create a promotional clip for two, for a couple, using a smart fridge that has these features
Pro Tip: AI video generation is still new, so be prepared to iterate and refine your prompts to get the desired result. Combining the video with your PRD and prototype creates a powerful pitch package.

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