Hire an AI product idea decision memo writer

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A need statement with a ten-year test and a skills gap
• A one-page press release written for the customer
• The hard questions, answered and graded, with gaps ranked
• A six-page memo in full sentences with a realistic writing schedule
• A memo score out of 100 and the three fixes that matter most

How it does the job well

• Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.
• Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.
• Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.
• Define how success will be measured before building.

Mistakes it avoids

• Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.
• Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.
• Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You have an idea for a product or project and want to know if it holds up before you spend on it.

• Customer need. The customer, the need written as a result, a ten-year test and the skills gap.
• Future press release. One page for the customer, written as if the product launched today.
• Hard questions and answers. Questions a sceptical customer and your team would ask, each answer graded known, guess or gap.
• Six-page memo. The ask on page one, then the case in full sentences, with a writing schedule.
• Memo check. A score out of 100, the one-sentence ask read cold, and the three fixes that matter most.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file, any step not run, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Jeff Bezos would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Find the customer need that will last. Names the customer, writes the need as a result and runs a ten-year test. Lists the skills the need demands and checks four marks of a business worth building.
• Write the future press release. Writes one page for the customer as if the product launched today. Cuts features that only a rival has and marks every claim without proof.
• Write the hard questions and answers. Lists what a sceptical customer and your own team would ask. Answers each, grades it known, guess or gap, and ranks the gaps.
• Write the six-page memo. Turns the release and questions into a memo in full sentences, with the ask on page one. Sets a schedule of a week or more.
• Check the memo before the meeting. After you share and edit it, reads the memo cold, scores it out of 100 and lists the three fixes that matter most.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id press-release-memo only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/press-release-memo/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Your idea in a sentence, and who you think it is for
• Any customer words you have, such as reviews, emails or call notes (optional)
• The price and the numbers you can back (optional)
• Time to share the memo with colleagues and edit it after step 4

Helpful context (optional)

• Customer reviews, emails or call notes
• Price and cost figures
• A past memo your team found clear

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Holds the need, the release and the questions across the pause.
• A shared document: Colleagues can comment on the memo draft before the edit.
• Any good chat AI: Weighing a need against the ten-year test is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Any good chat AI: Drafting plain customer-facing text is work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Any good chat AI: Listing questions and grading answers is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Any good chat AI: Building a long, connected argument from several inputs is text work a strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Any good chat AI: Reading a memo against a fixed checklist is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.

Functions and deliverables

• Product idea decision memo writer: Share your product idea and customer evidence. Get a future press release, hard-question answers, a six-page memo and review notes.
  • A need statement with a ten-year test and a skills gap
  • A one-page press release written for the customer
  • The hard questions, answered and graded, with gaps ranked
  • A six-page memo in full sentences with a realistic writing schedule
  • A memo score out of 100 and the three fixes that matter most
• Customer need and skills gap planner: Turn a product idea into a customer need. Get a lasting-need hypothesis, signs to test, team skill gaps and the biggest unknown.
  • The customer and the need, in their words
  • The ten-year test result
  • A list of the skills the need demands, marked have, can learn or must hire
  • Four marks checked with evidence
  • A need statement of about 100 words
• Future press release writer: Paste your need statement. Get a one-page future press release, written as if your product launched today, with weak claims marked.
  • A headline and one-sentence summary
  • The problem and the better way, in customer words
  • A customer quote and a team quote
  • Price, how to start and what is new
  • MISSING notes on every claim you cannot back
• Product launch FAQ writer: Share a launch press release or product outline. Get tough customer and team questions, graded answers and a ranked list of missing facts.
  • Customer questions with answers
  • Team questions with answers
  • Each answer marked known, guess or gap
  • The gaps ranked by how much they could change the plan
  • A release with weak claims fixed
• Six-page narrative memo writer: Turn your press release, questions and numbers into a six-page narrative memo in full sentences, with the ask on page one and a writing schedule.
  • A memo of up to six pages in full sentences
  • The decision and the ask on page one
  • A list of what you do not know
  • A schedule for drafts, feedback and a fresh edit
• Narrative memo checker: Check your narrative memo before the meeting. Get a score out of 100, each weak spot and the three fixes that add the most points.
  • The ask, in one sentence, as a cold reader sees it
  • A score out of 100 and how it was worked out
  • Each weak spot with the line it came from
  • The three fixes that matter most
  • A second score after the fixes
• Product context file writer: Share product facts, audience and positioning. Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.
  • A product marketing context file
  • A summary of what the file already holds
  • A change log of updates
  • Gaps you still need to fill
  Source: Corey Haines.
• Jeff Bezos: Review a product or stuck decision through Jeff Bezos’s recorded approach. Start with the customer, test what can be undone and write the reasoning.
  • Your problem worked on the way Jeff Bezos would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Jeff Bezos's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You have an idea for a product or project and want to know if it holds up before you spend on it.
• Your team debates features but cannot say why a customer would care.
• You need a decision from others and want them to read the same facts before they talk.

Limits to check before starting

• You already have live customers and want to learn from their data: review your reviews and sales numbers first, or ask a person who knows the account.
• You want the money side checked: use the Bad-year break-even tester after this, not this workflow.
• You need a short sales page or ad for a product that already exists: use the Buyer brief writer or the Ad headline writer.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Paste your idea and who it is for. It works step by step and saves each result.
• It stops after the memo draft. Share it with two or three colleagues, set it aside for two days, then edit it.
• Bring the edited memo back and say "carry on from step 5".

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/press-release-memo for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.