Teresa Torres

Defining What Good Looks Likes - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts AI evals feel like a brand-new skill — but the hardest part is a question product teams have always had to answer: what does "good" actually look like? Petra Wille and Teresa Torres dig into Teresa's recent article

Mind-Bending Experiences - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Team events are making a comeback. After years of remote work and tight budgets, companies are bringing people together again, and many are looking for experiences that go beyond the usual offsite. So should companies deliberately send their people somewhere strange, uncomfortable,

Building an AI Voice Agent for 360 Degree Feedback: How Your360 AI Uses State Machines, Evals, and Layered Synthesis

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to build an AI voice agent that people will talk to for 44 minutes about their own blind spots? Your360 AI found out, one call at a time. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks

Training Expectations - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts You've got twelve people and one hour booked at next week's offsite. Can someone teach your team to do continuous discovery in that hour? Teresa Torres's answer is a flat no — and this episode is about

Recorded Conversations - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts We now record almost everything — every meeting has an AI note-taker, and some people wear glasses that capture every word. So what does that do to our relationships when nothing is forgotten and everything can be fact-checked? Petra Wille and

Generating Opportunity Solution Trees with AI: How Vistaly Rebuilt Its Product Around Interview Synthesis, Evals, and Repair Loops

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when you hand your opportunity solution tree to an AI? Vistaly rebuilt its entire product to find out—and the agents were the easy part. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matt O'Connell

Unpacking Innovation - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Is innovation the goal — or just a byproduct of solving customer problems well? In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack one of the most misused words in product: "innovation." Teresa makes the case that

Trash Can Tracking - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if the ideas you throw away tell you more about the health of your product process than the ones you ship? In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille introduces trash can tracking — a deceptively simple technique for making discovery

Ch. 10: Testing Assumptions

Continuous Discovery Habits* turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you

Creating Aha! Builder: Concept to Code, No Engineers Required

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to build an AI app builder specifically for product managers—not engineers—inside an already crowded market? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Brian De Haaff (CEO and Co-Founder), Chris Waters (CTO

4 New Evals and 16 Experiment Variants to Fix 1 Customer Complaint

"That is a lot of first layer opportunities there. I wish I could click on this card and be like, 'Clean this up.'" This was a Vistaly customer reviewing her first AI-generated opportunity solution tree. Up until this point, the feedback was extremely positive. But

Delivery Isn’t Free - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Everyone's saying it: "Now that AI makes delivery free…" But is it? In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres pull apart one of the most repeated claims in product right now. They dig

Facilitation Skills - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Conflict on a product team isn't a warning sign — the absence of it usually is. In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres tackle a question Teresa hears constantly: what should a product trio do when

Get My Eval Test Harness and Run Your First Experiment

My in-depth AI evals guide explains what evals are and how to build them. This post gives you the tool I use to run them. Here's the practical problem. To get a baseline, you have to run every input through your prompt, save each output, run every

AI Evals: A Hands-On Guide for Product Teams

AI evals have been the "it" skill for product teams for over a year. I've even called evals a new discovery habit. But I still meet product teams who only have a vague idea of what evals are. And it's not their fault. Most

The Call to Adventure

In June, I returned to Product at Heart in Hamburg, Germany. I love this event. Arne Kittler and Petra Wille do such an amazing job of curating a thoughtful lineup of speakers and they obsess over the attendee experience. If you are looking for a high-quality product conference, I

Ch. 9: Identifying Hidden Assumptions

Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you

Building AI for Women's Health: How Hertility Combined Bayesian Diagnosis and Scan Automation

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build trustworthy AI diagnostic tools in one of medicine's most historically under-researched areas? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Tulsi Patel (Director of Product and Technology), Lorna Brightmore (Head of Data

Quality of Evidence - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts You've got behavioral analytics, support tickets, sales call notes, and a feedback inbox that never empties. With all that data coming in, do product teams actually still need to go out and talk to users? In this episode, Petra Wille

From COVID Pivot to AI World Building: How Snapbar Reinvented the Photo Experience

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to reinvent a 14-year-old company—not once, but twice? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Sam Eitzen (Co-founder & CEO), Joe Eitzen (Co-founder & CPO), and Patrick Ellis (CTO)

Stepping Into Leadership - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Every product manager wants to move into leadership — but nobody wants to hire a leader without leadership experience. So how do you break the cycle? In this episode, Teresa and Petra unpack the practical, often-overlooked ways individual contributors can build real

Ch. 8: Supercharged Ideation

Continuous Discovery Habits turned five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you

AI-Shaped Problems - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Think you don't have big enough problems for AI to help with? Think again. In this episode, Petra and Teresa tackle one of the most common blockers people face when starting out with AI: not knowing where to begin. It&

Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if AI could help prevent sexual assault before it happens — without tracking users, judging them, or handing them a verdict? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Priya Nakra (Founder and Product Lead) and Olivia Rowley (AI

Creating Experiences - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What makes an event truly unforgettable — and what can product teams learn from it? In this episode, Teresa sits down with Petra Wille to explore how Petra and her co-organizer Arne design experiences (not just events) at Product at Heart and