Customer signal to shipped product.

Ditch the Deck SF - AI Show not Tell

Organizer recap of the first San Francisco Ditch the Deck demo night explicitly naming Jorge Alcantara of Zentrik and showing event photography from the live-product format.

Founders Build Day: an afternoon of building for early-stage founders

Upcoming San Francisco founder event listing Jorge Alcantara, founder of Zentrik AI, as a coach alongside Dan Olsen, Rohini Pandhi, Todd Olson, and Zain Lakhani. The event was announced publicly by Mike Belsito.

A Closed-Door AI Salon: Researchers, Founders, and Investors

OpenStages recap naming Jorge Alcantara among the participants in its Redwood City AI salon and showing event photography. Canonical event listing: https://luma.com/37gfp8f1

AI Startup Pitch Night at AWS Builder Loft

Public event recap naming Jorge Alcantara from Zentrik among the founders presenting at the AWS Builder Loft. Canonical event listing: https://lu.ma/ai-startup-pitch

Code Got Cheap. Judgment Didn't. | AI ROI, Build vs Buy, and the Roles That Disappear

Unhinged AI episode hosted by Talha Masood with Jorge Alcantara, co-founder and CEO of Zentrik, on why faster code makes product judgment the bottleneck; covers AI ROI, self-hosting economics, build versus buy, agent-ready product context, and the pull-request growth story.

Unhinged AI episode announcement: open-source LLM economics and the middle path

Founding Dev announcement naming Jorge Alcantara and Zentrik in a discussion of self-hosting, GPU economics, and the practical middle path between running an open-source model and paying for unused capacity.

OpenAI Codex Community Meetup #8 — San Francisco recap

Public recap of the San Francisco OpenAI Codex Community Meetup #8 that names Jorge Alcantara among attendees and describes a hands-on, coder-and-non-coder AI-building community format. The post also links the next meetup on August 25.

Building A Customer Centric Product Organization

Planet DDS product leader Nathan James explains how Zentrik connects customer evidence from product feedback, support, calls, account teams, and industry forums; makes that context available through MCP; and supports evidence-grounded personas without replacing customer conversations or product judgment.

“The most powerful piece was the MCP.”

Hosted by Mustafa Kapadia for Masters of Product, an Echo Point podcast.

Build Faster Without Losing the Customer

Completed live working session with Dan Olsen and Jorge Alcantara, tracing one product decision from customer evidence through a focused prototype and Study.

Build Faster Without Losing the Customer — event announcement

Founder announcement connecting the earlier 250-person vibe-coding hackathon to the need to keep customer evidence attached to AI-assisted product work.

ProductTank Porto workshop recap: PMs building working prototypes

LinkedIn recap from Jorge Alcantara highlighting attendee-built prototypes from the Porto workshop and previewing the follow-up project showcase.

ProductTank Lisbon: Hands-On Product Building for PMs

Completed hands-on session at Nagarro Lisbon where PMs moved from idea to brief to prototype to feedback with Jorge Alcantara.

ProductTank Porto: AI in Action — Product Building for PMs

Completed workshop at Zühlke Porto where PMs and builders moved from rough ideas to working prototypes while keeping product direction clear.

Productos y proyectos: Zentrik en la conversación pública

Opinion column mentioning Zentrik in a discussion of product work and project delivery.

Zentrik included in the MTPCon London product bundle

Public post documenting Mind the Product including Zentrik Super PM in the MTPCon London product bundle alongside bolt.new, Alloy, Magic Patterns, Builder.ai, and Novus.ai by Pendo.

ProductTank Valencia: AI in Action — Hands-On Product Building for PMs

Hands-on product building workshop with Jorge Alcantara, in collaboration with GuruWalk, Zentrik, and Lovable.

ProductTank Madrid: AI in Action — Hands-On Product Building for PMs

Hands-on AI product building workshop led by Jorge Alcantara at Shakers Madrid, co-sponsored by Zentrik and Lovable.

Product Space Wrapped 2025

Product Space year-in-review mentioning Jorge Alcantara, CEO and founder of Zentrik, as a special appearance for "How Product Managers Can Build Prototypes."

AI-assisted product building for product teams (ProductTank session)

ProductTank session on AI-assisted product building for product teams, published on the Mind the Product channel.

Meet the AI Builders #12 — Jorge Alcantara, CEO @ Zentrik

Profile of Jorge Alcantara and Zentrik on moving product and engineering teams from scattered inputs to actionable product plans in the age of AI.

ProductTank San Francisco recap: AI in Action workshop

ProductTank San Francisco recap thanking Jorge Alcantara and Zentrik for leading the product thinking and prototyping fundamentals workshop.

September at ProductTanks: AI in product and hands-on building

Mind the Product roundup thanking Jorge Alcantara, CEO of Zentrik, for leading ProductTank San Francisco through product thinking and prototyping fundamentals.

ProductTank SF: AI in Action - Hands-On Product Building for PMs

Original ProductTank San Francisco workshop page for the Cribl-hosted hands-on session led by Jorge Alcantara on product thinking, requirements, prompts, and AI-assisted prototyping.

Let AI focus on solutions. Let PMs focus on problems

Newsletter essay built on a conversation with Jorge Alcantara about splitting problem-space and solution-space work between PMs and AI.

Unlocking Product Management with Reliable AI

Conversation with Nikhil Pareek on reliable AI for software product planning and how Zentrik keeps planning information trustworthy.

Agile Sprint Automation: Zentrik

Trend write-up on Zentrik’s PRD-to-sprint-task automation for product teams.

Zentrik CEO on building prototypes with Vercel v0

Live walkthrough of how product managers can build working prototypes with Vercel v0 while keeping product direction clear.

Accelerate Your Product Delivery: Effectively Integrate AI in Your Product Teams

Developer Day workshop by Jorge Alcantara on integrating AI across the product development lifecycle, including practical planning with Zentrik.

Zentrik at DeveloperWeek 2025

DeveloperWeek sponsor profile describing Zentrik as an intelligent planning platform for product teams.

AI Champions with Jorge Alcantara of Zentrik AI

AI success-stories episode featuring how Zentrik applies AI to product management.

Zentrik: Revolutionizing Product Management with AI

Founding-story episode with companion article on founder.show: launching Zentrik, the first 200 users, and moving product teams beyond the feature factory.

Zentrik: Streamlining Product Management With AI Innovation

Companion Founder Show blog article summarizing Zentrik's product-management AI story and founder journey.

From Jira Janitors to AI-Powered Swiss Knives

Conversation with Elina Lesyk on the PM paradox: freeing product managers from ticket grooming so AI handles solutions while PMs own problems.

Zentrik launch on Product Hunt

Launch listing — “Where product thinking meets real execution” — with community reviews and maker notes from Jorge Alcantara.

Torras AI Podcast — Jorge Alcantara

Conversation with Jordi Torras (Inbenta founder) on Jorge’s work deploying early large-scale chatbots and the road to AI-assisted product building.

ProductMap references

Public references to Zentrik in ProductMap content.

Why Software Teams Waste $1 Trillion on Planning

Podcast interview with Jorge Alcantara of Zentrik on planning and orchestration as the bottleneck in modern software teams.

Use AI Tools to Become a Super-IC PM (live workshop)

Live workshop co-hosted by Jorge Alcantara on using AI tools to multiply individual PM impact.