How does AI adoption change defining and measuring product success?
The answers agree that AI shifts product success metrics from traditional outputs to focusing on customer outcomes, workflow impact, and real-world adoption, though they emphasize different aspects of this shift.
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Maya Keekattil
Chief Product Officer · Cin7
Customer Outcomes
Maya Keekattil says AI shifts product success from product output to focusing on customer outcomes, because AI makes us think by outcome.
The answer starts at 21:27.
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Ravi Mehta
Angel Investor · Traveljoy
Worth Shipping
Ravi Mehta says AI made building software much cheaper, so the job shifts from deciding what's worth building to deciding what's worth shipping — his answer to how success is now defined.
Ravi on Product · Ravi on Product · Read
Jonathan Evens
Product Lead · Google Deepmind
Model Capabilities
Jonathan Evens says that in the GenAI world, defining and measuring product success means defining and measuring the core model's capabilities, such as factuality, long context and reasoning.
Mind the Product · Watch on YouTube

Pete Johnson
Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence · MongoDB
Workflow Acceleration
Pete Johnson says AI changes how product success is measured by focusing on workflow acceleration: success metrics should be how much an existing process is sped up by automating workflows, rather than adoption counts or lines of code.
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Watch on YouTube
Faith Forster
Chief Maker · Discoveree For Product Leaders & Managers
Adoption and Usage
Faith Forster says AI changes the definition of done, so it's now about adoption rather than shipping to production, and teams should work alongside customers watching how they use the product.
The Product Experience · The Product Experience · Listen at 19:56
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