The PM Stack Was Built to Store Things
The work has changed. PM tools built to store artifacts are being asked to act on decisions before the signal goes stale.
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The work has changed. PM tools built to store artifacts are being asked to act on decisions before the signal goes stale.
After the twenty calls everyone talks about, the rest of the library still holds the roadmap. Here is what we keep finding when that signal finally flows into structure.
Flat files and similarity-ranked context fail where product work actually happens—when someone has to defend a priority with evidence, ARR, and a traceable path from signal to decision.
AI collapsed the time to ship. For most product teams, the deciding layer is now the constraint.