Ep. 4: The 10 AI Prompts Every Product Team at Forest Uses Weekly

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If you're part of a product team, startup, or innovation squad, chances are you’ve opened ChatGPT and typed something like:

“Help me write a PRD for a mobile app…”

And then got stuck with 80% fluff, 20% help.
We’ve been there.

That’s why, at Forest Technologies, we’ve gone way past “just experimenting with AI” — we’ve built a real AI-assisted product workflow that helps us:
✅ Move from idea → action faster
✅ Reduce busywork in product and research
✅ Make better product decisions, faster
✅ Align designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders without more meetings

This article is not a fluffy AI tips post.
It’s a tactical toolkit: the exact prompts our teams use every week — and the product thinking behind why they work.

Let’s dive in.

The Real Value of Prompts in Product Work

AI is like a junior team member with perfect memory and infinite patience.
But without clear direction? It’s worse than useless — it’s noisy.

The secret isn’t “just prompt it.” The secret is how you think before you prompt. At Forest Technologies, we coach our teams to always apply this framework:

❓ What job are we trying to accomplish? 
🎯 What’s the outcome we want? 
🛠 What context does AI need to succeed

Once you build this habit, you can delegate a shocking amount of work to AI — while keeping full control of quality and strategic direction.

The 10 Prompts Forest Uses Every Single Week
Each prompt below includes:
✅ What it does
✅ The exact prompt
✅ When to use it
✅ Bonus tips to improve results

1. From Brain Dump to PRD Draft

✅ Use this when:

You’ve got messy notes from a founder, kickoff call, or workshop and need to shape a clear product spec.

💬 Prompt:

You are a senior product manager. Based on the notes below, generate a first-draft PRD with: 
– Problem Statement 
– Goals 
– Target Users 
– User Stories 
– Assumptions 
– Success Criteria 
– Open Questions 
[Insert notes here]

💡 Tip:

Use this before sprint planning or product handoff. You’ll cut prep time by 60–70%.

2. Feature Ideation With Strategic Depth

✅ Use this when:

You're exploring solutions to a user problem and want fresh ideas beyond the obvious.

💬 Prompt:

You are in a feature ideation session. Based on this problem: 
[insert problem], 
generate 5–7 potential feature ideas. For each, include: 
– Expected impact 
– Effort level (S/M/L) 
– Dependencies 
– Strategic risk or trade-offs

💡 Tip:

This pairs beautifully with user research synthesis. Use to structure roadmap options.

3. Build a Sharper User Persona

✅ Use this when:

You’ve gathered qualitative data from interviews, support chats, or surveys.

💬 Prompt:

You are a UX researcher. Based on this data, summarize a user persona with: 
– Demographic details 
– Key pain points 
– Desired outcomes 
– Common objections 
– Behaviors and motivations 
[Paste interview/survey data]

💡 Tip:

This helps your team build with empathy, even if they didn’t join the interviews.

4. Fix That Awkward UX Copy

✅ Use this when:

Your UI copy sounds robotic, confusing, or too formal.

💬 Prompt:

Rewrite this UI message for clarity, warmth, and brevity. 
Match this tone: [e.g., fun, calm, reassuring]. 
Limit each line to [X] characters. 
[Paste the original message]

💡 Tip:

Add “Avoid jargon. Sound like a helpful human.” to get even better tone calibration.

5. Turn Research Into Clear Insights

✅ Use this when:

You’ve done discovery research but need themes, quotes, and takeaways for your team.

💬 Prompt:

Summarize the following user research into key insights. 
Group them by theme. Include quotes. Suggest 3 product implications. 
[Paste transcript or notes]

💡 Tip:

Run this on each user interview to find patterns early — before they cost you dev time.

6. Draft a Product Strategy From Scratch

✅ Use this when:

You’re launching a new product, internal tool, or initiative and need alignment.

💬 Prompt:

Act as a product strategist. Draft a one-pager that includes: 
– Product Vision 
– Core Goals 
– Audience/User Segments 
– Value Proposition 
– Success Metrics 
– Known Risks 
[Paste project idea or context]

💡 Tip:

Use this to kick off alignment with stakeholders before any design or code starts.

7. Catch Red Flags in a Feature Spec

✅ Use this when:

You want a second opinion on a proposed feature — before investing time and budget.

💬 Prompt:

Review this feature proposal critically. List unclear assumptions, hidden risks, missing context, or potential scope creep. 
[Paste the feature spec or idea]

💡 Tip:

This is perfect before design starts. You’ll prevent bad builds before they start.

8. Break Features Into Sprint-Ready Tasks

✅ Use this when:

You’re scoping work across product, design, and engineering.

💬 Prompt:

Break this feature into tasks across roles: 
– Product 
– Design 
– Frontend 
– Backend 
Estimate each as Small/Medium/Large. Flag dependencies. 
[Paste feature concept or problem]

💡 Tip:

Use this as a pre-sprint planning tool to estimate velocity before you commit.

9. Design Fast Validation Experiments

✅ Use this when:

You want to test demand or usability before building something big.

💬 Prompt:

We want to test this idea: [insert idea or user behavior]. 
Suggest 3 lean experiments we can run in 1–2 weeks to validate it. 
Include the method, success metric, and risk level

💡 Tip:

Founders love this. It gives you fast signal before you burn engineering hours.

10. Test UX Microcopy for Friction or Confusion

✅ Use this when:

You’re writing error messages, warnings, confirmations, or onboarding nudges.

💬 Prompt:

Review this microcopy from a frustrated user’s perspective. 
Is it confusing, cold, or likely to annoy people? Suggest 2 alternatives. 
[Paste message]

💡 Tip:

This is emotional design at work. Use to boost retention and reduce drop-offs.

Forest Pro Tip: “Prep Before You Prompt”

Most teams fail with AI because they treat it like a magic wand.

At Forest, we teach this rule:

✨ “AI is a multiplier, not a mind-reader.” Give it structure. Give it context. Tell it what success looks like.

When you do that?
You get outputs that feel like they came from your best teammate — not some random assistant.

Want Forest’s Full AI Prompt Library?

We’re building a complete AI Prompt Library for Product Teams — including:

• Strategy docs

• AI-assisted research

• Growth & marketing workflows

• Internal team alignment

• Templates for Notion, ClickUp, Jira, etc.

🪄 Request early access contact: hello@theforest.ai

Or DM us on LinkedIn

Why Forest Technologies?

At Forest Technologies, we don’t chase trends. We build AI-native systems that help teams ship smarter, validate faster, and align around outcomes — not tickets.

We’ve helped:

• Startups go from MVP to PMF 3x faster

• Scaleups unblock stalled product teams

• Enterprise clients turn AI into a real edge (not a shiny toy)

Whether you’re 2 people with an idea or 200 people scaling a platform — we help you build fast, build right, and build smart.

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