Product AI Group
Your product peer groupfor the AI Era.
Product people comparing notes across companies on what’s working with AI, what isn’t, and where we’re going.
The moment
Nobody has the playbook for AI in product yet.
Product people are facing the hardest questions of their careers. How should our team be using AI day-to-day? Which AI features actually matter, and which are theater? What does product work even look like in two years?
Nobody has clean answers. The PMs thinking hardest about this are working it out as they go, often without alignment from their own teams. The ones who pull ahead won’t be the ones who guessed right. They’ll be the ones comparing notes early, across companies and across roles, with people facing the same uncertainty.
That’s what Product AI Group is for. A space to work through this together with the people doing the same work.
Who we are
A cross-section of product.
People from companies of every size and stage, connected by the work of building product in the AI era.
Roles
- Product managers and PMs at every level
- Designers and researchers shaping AI experiences
- Engineering leaders partnering with product
- Founders and operators building product-led companies
Industries
B2B and B2C, hardware and software, regulated and unregulated. The cross-pollination is the point.
Why we gather
Four forces are rapidly compounding.
Our conversations keep landing on the same four pressures.
Team compression is cutting your team, not your scope
Fewer people, same expectations, shrinking budgets. Every person is critical, and the scope hasn't shrunk with the team.
Role collapse is forcing specialists to become generalists
Entire teams are disappearing. Specialists cover generalist ground, learn new skills on the fly, and carry roles that used to belong to dedicated teams.
AI-driven engineering is shipping faster than you can validate
Code ships at AI speed on frameworks that didn't exist a year ago. Less time to test, more ways to break, less confidence in what just shipped.
Unprecedented user experiences are arriving without a playbook
New AI-driven UX patterns arrive with no expectations on either side. Users react in radically different ways, from deep skepticism to blind trust. Teams have to read those reactions and adapt without a playbook.
Stack those forces and you get a wedge that widens the gap between the people building products and the customers those products are for.
The Product AI Group exists to close that gap. Not by pretending it isn’t there, but by getting the people living it into the same room often enough that the patterns show.
How we gather
Different cadences for different conversations, year-round.
Ongoing
Workshops
Hands-on sessions built around specific PM challenges in the AI era. Each workshop goes deep on one topic — practical, interactive, and designed to change how you work.
- How to avoid AI slop and prompt for quality output
- AI adoption tactics for product teams
- Using AI to solve real product challenges
Events
San Francisco Micro Summit
A West Coast half-day for Bay Area product people from tech's biggest companies and fastest startups. Three Centercode speakers, one Bay Area guest, and a room full of people navigating the same AI bets. Dinner after.
Boston Micro Summit
An East Coast half-day for Greater Boston's deep pool of product people across biotech, fintech, and enterprise software. Three Centercode speakers, one regional guest, and real conversation about what AI actually changes. Dinner after.
Salt Lake City Micro Summit
Silicon Slopes is one of the most concentrated pockets of product talent in the country. A half-day to get specific on how those teams are actually shipping with AI. Three Centercode speakers, one regional guest, and dinner after.
Hosted by Centercode
Two decades helping teams build better products.
Centercode has spent two decades helping product teams keep real customers in the build loop. We’ve worked alongside PMs through every shift in how products get built and validated, and AI is the biggest yet. Hosting Product AI Group is a natural extension of that work.
UserVolley is our answer to what validation looks like in the era of AI. The faster AI lets teams ship, the harder it gets to know if they’re shipping the right thing. Real users. AI scale.
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Join the community
Tell us a bit about your role and we’ll loop you into what’s coming up next: workshops, Regional Summits, the annual Summit, and anything landing in your area.