How to Use Claude as an AI Product Manager to Create a Development Blueprint

Document this process as a product brief.
Problem today: [manual work and consequences]
Primary journey: [start to finish]
Users and administrators: [roles]
Data collected: [fields]
Services and outputs: [list]
Existing examples worth preserving: [forms, reports, or artifacts]
Open questions: [list]

Act as the product manager for this application. Use the attached brief to plan a development roadmap for [product]. It will be built on [platform]. Before writing the roadmap, ask me every question needed to understand the users, role permissions, data, services, integrations, and event operations. Do not assume answers that are not in the brief.

Create user stories grouped by role. Use the format: As a [role], I can [action], so that [outcome]. Add acceptance checks to each story. Include [roles]. Make the scope of every read, create, update, export, and approval action explicit.

Propose an architecture for these approved user stories. Include the core entities and relationships, tenant boundaries, authentication, role-based permissions, file generation, reports, external integrations, and deployment assumptions. For every role, state which records it can read or change.

Define the MVP as the smallest release that completes this journey: [primary journey]. List its required stories and explicitly excluded capabilities. Then create later phases for [reports, integrations, additional roles, or services], with a clear reason for each sequence.

Write measurable operational requirements for security, privacy, data retention, backups, accessibility, performance, monitoring, generated files, and third-party failures. Tie each requirement to the user story or risk it protects.

Audit this blueprint for contradictions, missing decisions, ambiguous permissions, undefined data, and untestable requirements. Return the blocking questions first. After I answer them, produce the final blueprint with an acceptance checklist a coding agent can execute.