You became a PM to figure out what to build. Instead, you spend your Fridays formatting status updates. Here's what happens when that changes.

In this session, you're going to do something that sounds impossible: generate a complete weekly review draft — in your voice, in your format, using your actual work data — in under 15 minutes. Not watch someone else do it. YOU do it. Right now.

The PMs who've done this before you describe the same feeling: "Wait, this actually worked. The thing that took me 2 hours on Friday afternoon just happened in 12 seconds."

Let's make it happen.

If you already have a Claude account at claude.ai, skip to Step 2. If not:

1. Go to claude.ai and click Sign Up
2. Use your Google account or email — either works
3. You don't need to pay. The free tier covers everything in this course
4. Once logged in, you'll see a chat interface. Don't start chatting yet — we're building something better

💡 Already a ChatGPT power user? Everything in this session works with ChatGPT too. Create a custom GPT with your voice document, or paste your doc + the prompt into a chat. We standardize on Claude for the course because Projects persist context across sessions without requiring a paid plan. If you're deep in ChatGPT already, adapt freely — the technique matters more than the tool.

A Claude Project is like a folder that remembers everything you put in it. Unlike a regular chat (where Claude forgets everything when you close the tab), a Project stores your documents, your templates, and your instructions permanently.

1. In the Claude sidebar, click Projects (it might say "Create Project")
2. Name it: "My Weekly Reviews"
3. Click Create

You now have a Project. It's empty. We're going to fill it with the one thing Claude needs to sound like you.

Claude is a fast writer. But it doesn't know what YOU sound like — your sentence rhythms, your level of detail, the way you structure a status update. We're about to fix that.

Find your last weekly review, status update, or team email. Anything you wrote yourself that represents your work communication style. It could be:

• Last week's team email ("Here's what we shipped...")
• A Slack standup post you wrote
• A project status update you shared with your VP
• A section of a PRD you're proud of

Now upload it:

1. Inside your "My Weekly Reviews" Project, look for the paperclip icon or "Add content" button
2. Upload your document (PDF, Word doc, or paste text into a new file)
3. Claude now has a reference for your voice, format, and structure

This is the most important step. Without it, Claude writes like a generic AI. With it, Claude writes like you.

Now the moment. Copy this prompt exactly, then replace the bullet points with YOUR actual 5 things from last week:

Using the reference document I uploaded (my previous weekly review) as a guide for tone, format, and structure, generate this week's review based on these 5 things:

1. [What shipped or moved forward]
2. [What's blocked or at risk]
3. [What you learned or discovered]
4. [What's coming next week]
5. [Anything else the team should know]

Match the level of detail, section structure, and writing style of my previous review. Do not add information I didn't provide. Do not use generic business phrases like "leveraged synergies" or "drove alignment." Write like a product manager updating their team.

Paste this into the chat in your "My Weekly Reviews" Project and press Enter.

Wait 5-10 seconds.

Read what comes back.

You're now looking at a weekly review draft. Here's what to check:

The Good (what Claude probably got right):

• Structure — it matched your section headers and format
• Completeness — all 5 bullet points are covered
• Flow — it reads like a coherent update, not a list

What to Edit (what Claude probably needs your help with):

• Facts: Did it get any dates, names, or numbers wrong? Fix them.
• Tone: Does any sentence feel "off" — too formal, too vague, too cheerful? Rewrite it.
• Judgment: Did it frame a setback appropriately? Did it overstate a win? Adjust the framing.
• AI-voice patterns: Watch for words like "delve," "unlock," "elevate," "leverage," "robust." Replace with plain English: "investigated," "improved," "planned," "used," "solid."

The 3-Minute Edit Rule: If you can make it send-able in 3 minutes, ship it. If the AI got something fundamentally wrong (wrong project, wrong team, wrong data), regenerate with more specific bullets. Don't spend 15 minutes editing — the AI is a first-draft machine. You're the editor.

You just created a Claude Project that knows your voice. Next week, you'll do this again in 5 minutes:

1. Open your "My Weekly Reviews" Project
2. Paste this week's 5 bullet points
3. Click Enter
4. Review for 3 minutes
5. Send

Every week from now on, your Friday afternoon review takes 10 minutes instead of 2 hours.

That's 1 hour and 50 minutes back. Every week. For the rest of your career.

In the next session, we'll explain WHY this worked — the mental models that turn AI from a generic chatbot into your personal documentation engine. But first, take a moment. You just automated your first recurring PM task. The thing you used to dread on Fridays is now a 10-minute review cycle.

Welcome to AI-first product management.

Primary watch: Claude for PMs (Cowork + Code + Dispatch) by Aakash Gupta (growproduct)
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITUsUsrxjM

Duration: ~60 minutes
What it teaches: The definitive Claude course for PMs — Projects, persistent context, Cowork, and workflow patterns built specifically for product managers. Aakash Gupta is one of the top PM thought leaders in AI.
Best use: Watch after this session to see how a senior PM structures their Claude workflow. The Projects section directly reinforces what you built.

Quick reference (7 min): Claude Projects Step-by-Step by Kevin Stratvert
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7_yWjYyxjE

What it teaches: Pure Claude Projects focus — create, add instructions, upload files, organize. Gold standard for accessible tech tutorials.
Best use: Quick refresher before next Monday's weekly review.

Official source (8 min): Getting Started with Projects in Claude.ai by Anthropic
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5jTgcbRHA

What it teaches: The official walkthrough — 778K views, 7 minutes, the definitive source on Projects and persistent context.

What our context layer adds to all of these: The videos teach Claude generally. We add: the specific "voice upload" technique (feeding your own documents as context), the PM-specific prompt template, and the 3-minute edit rule. Watch any of these after this session — but do the build first.