{"podcast":{"title":"The Growth Podcast","slug":"the-growth-podcast-6993153","podcast_index_feed_id":6993153,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/454003/s/133669.rss","website_url":"https://www.news.aakashg.com/s/product-growth-podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/454003/s/133669/596402a8f2fc2cbe4d2b7f834c4f02eb.jpg","author":"Aakash Gupta","episode_count":148,"summary":"The latest insights into how great products grow, how to be a better PM or product leader, and how to get a PM job.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T10:17:39.312468+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-podcast-6993153"},"episode":{"title":"How to Do AI-Powered Discovery (Step-by-Step with Live Demo) | Caitlin Sullivan","slug":"how-to-do-ai-powered-discovery-step-by-step-with-live-demo-caitlin-sullivan","published_at":"2026-02-13T00:16:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-podcast-6993153/how-to-do-ai-powered-discovery-step-by-step-with-live-demo-caitlin-sullivan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-podcast-6993153","url":"https://www.news.aakashg.com/p/caitlin-sullivan-podcast","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186174368/7b35906145af3b3a62edc864295024ad.mp3","summary":"Today’s Episode Discovery might be the most important core PM skill for building great products. But most PMs are unprepared to do discovery in AI . PMs run surveys incorrectly, conduct interviews poorly, and end up with poor insights. Today will give you the roadmap to avoid all those mistakes . Caitlin Sullivan is a user research expert who runs courses teaching PMs how to do AI-powered discovery. And in today’s episode, she shows you exactly how she does it . We’re talking live demos. Step-by-step workflows. Real survey data. Real interview transcripts. This is a masterclass in discovery. The kind that moves the needle. ---- Brought to you by: Maven : Get 15% off Caitlin’s courses with code AAKASHxMAVEN Pendo : The #1 software experience management platform Jira Product Discovery : Plan with purpose, ship with confidence Kameleoon : AI experimentation platform Amplitude : The market-leader in product analytics ---- Key Takeaways: 1. Replicate the human process - Good AI analysis mirrors how experienced researchers work: comb through data first, then synthesize. Never jump straight to \"give me themes.\"2. Use multi-step prompting - Load context in one prompt, run per-participant analysis in the next, then verify. Cramming everything into one prompt degrades quality.3. Code before you count - For surveys, apply inductive coding labels to every response before asking for patterns. Skipping this step leads to miscategorized, unreliable results.4. Always audit AI's work - Force the model to re-check its own analysis. It catches contradictions, overexaggerated intensity ratings, and miscoded responses regularly.5. Claude wins on nuance, Gemini wins on frequency - Claude gives more thorough, complete analysis by default. Gemini surfaces top-frequency themes faster but misse…","meta_description":"Today’s Episode Discovery might be the most important core PM skill for building great products. But most PMs are unprepared to do discovery in AI . PMs r…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4360,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-growth-podcast-6993153/episodes/how-to-do-ai-powered-discovery-step-by-step-with-live-demo-caitlin-sullivan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-podcast-6993153/how-to-do-ai-powered-discovery-step-by-step-with-live-demo-caitlin-sullivan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}