AI Coaching Skills for Product Managers
Most PM skills tell AI what framework to apply. These teach AI how to coach you through it.
27 skills with scoring rubrics, behavioral markers, real coaching exchanges, and pushback on weak thinking. Built from 500+ mentorship sessions.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and any LLM that accepts system prompts.
Template Skills vs. Coaching Skills
Template skills give you a well-organized MBA binder. Coaching skills give you a VP of Product who sits next to you and challenges your thinking in real time.
| Template Skills | Coaching Skills (Unabated) | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | "Apply this framework" | "Let me push your thinking" |
| Example exchanges | None | Dozens per skill |
| Scoring rubrics | None | Multi-level with behavioral anchors |
| Error correction | None | Symptom / Diagnosis / Fix patterns |
| Before/after examples | None | Full paragraph-level transformations |
| Practitioner voice | Textbook | Opinionated, direct, uses real stories |
| Adaptive behavior | Same for all levels | Detects user level, adjusts coaching |
27 Coaching Skills
Organized into four areas across the Four Pillars of PM. Each skill is a standalone file you can use with any AI tool.
Order Taker to Outcome Owner
M1Diagnose where you fall on the order-taker spectrum and build a plan to move toward strategic ownership.
Four Pillars PM Check
M1Score yourself across Strategy, Delivery, Customer Experience, and Growth with behavioral anchors.
Vision Synthesis Coach
M4Build a compelling product vision using the Vision Triangle: Customer Truth + Market Shift + Unique Capability.
Strategy Articulation Coach
M4Pressure-test your strategy with the 5 Questions framework and DHM Filter.
Stakeholder Request Reframe
M5Turn stakeholder demands into strategic conversations using generalize/dilute/evaluate.
AI Career Impact Advisor
—Navigate AI's impact on your PM career. Feature parity, human ingenuity as differentiator, and the Ask Don't Tell leadership shift.
Coach Strategy
/coach-strategyEnd-to-end strategy coaching: synthesize your vision, pressure-test your strategy, then prepare to defend it against stakeholder pushback.
Get Started in 30 Seconds
Install as a plugin in Claude Desktop (Cowork) or Claude Code. All 27 skills activate automatically.
Install PluginIn Claude Code: claude plugin add BrennanJCollins/unabated-pm-coaching
Each skill is a standalone file. Open the skill you want on GitHub, copy it, and paste as a custom instruction or system prompt.
Browse Skills on GitHubWorks with any AI that accepts system prompts.
Clone the repo into your workspace. Skills auto-load via plugin discovery.
git clone BrennanJCollins/unabated-pm-coachingOr add as a git submodule to your project.
Try a Skill
Invoke any skill with your context. Example:
/cafe-update My product is a B2B analytics platform. I'm talking to our VP of Sales.
We just shipped a new dashboard that helped Acme Corp identify $2M in at-risk renewals.The skill will coach you through the framework, push back on weak thinking, and help you iterate until your output is strong.
Built from Real Coaching, Not Textbooks
Every coaching exchange, scoring rubric, and failure pattern comes from real mentorship sessions with real PMs facing real challenges.
PMs coached
Student promotions in 6 months
Course rating on Maven
Years of PM leadership
"These aren't skills that write documents for you. They're skills that challenge your thinking the way a senior PM leader would."
Brennan Collins, Creator of The Influential PM
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