Announcing CoPilot: The Product Management AI Set to Transform the Lives of Product Managers 🚀

When Simon Cast and I founded ProdPad and invented the Now-Next-Later roadmap all those years ago, it was with the express purpose of saving the precious time of Product Managers and freeing them from the frustrations we were struggling with as PMs ourselves. We wanted a brighter future for our community. That has always been ProdPad’s mission. And now, finally, the huge advancements in AI technology mean we can super-accelerate our journey to that North Star. I’m extremely proud to announce the launch of ProdPad’s brand new AI for Product Managers: CoPilot. 

Here at ProdPad, we’ve been using AI to save PMs time since 2018, but this brand new CoPilot is the culmination of all our efforts and the pinnacle of ProdPad’s AI tools. It’s a game changer people – let me tell you more. 

TL;DR

• CoPilot is THE major AI product launch of 2025 for Product Managers – one that represents a unique application of generative AI technology
• Specifically primed and packaged for Product Managers and Product Teams, it’s set to dramatically boost productivity across the tech industry and the ROI of Product Management 
• Combines the best of both promptless AI and a generative chat interface already primed with ‘Product’ specific context with the ability to draw on your Product Management data 
• Part of the ProdPad Product Management platform and brought to you by the team behind the Now-Next-Later roadmap and Co-Founders of Mind the Product

What is CoPilot for Product Managers?

Here, let me show you 👇

The tech industry has just got the boost it’s been crying out for. This January, our brand new AI CoPilot launches specifically for Product Managers and Product Teams. This is a truly unique application of AI technology that will signal a bright new dawn for the Product Management discipline. 

CoPilot, a next-generation AI assistant, coach, productivity powerhouse, and all-round saving grace, has been built specifically for Product Managers. As part of the ProdPad platform, CoPilot sits alongside your product roadmaps, idea backlogs, customer feedback, and workflow management, with a full working knowledge of all your Product work and a deep understanding of Product Management best practices. 

Now, Product Teams will be able to skyrocket their productivity and results, relying on CoPilot to:

• Field their stakeholder questions
• Give them best practice coaching and advice
• Answer questions about their product work and feedback, including past decision making and status updates
• Write up their time-consuming documentation
• Automatically refine their backlog and organize their workflow
• Mine their customer feedback for insights 
• Process attachments and create new roadmaps, initiatives, ideas and more, in moments
• Onboard new teammates in half the time, quickly getting them up to speed and answering their questions

I can almost hear the collective sigh of relief as Product Managers across the globe are given the gift of time and the expert guidance to help them focus on the most important strategic decisions and drive ever greater results. 

Why is CoPilot so important for Product Managers RIGHT NOW? 

At a time when Product Managers are feeling deep insecurity in their roles, with ever mounting pressure to prove their worth and demonstrate growth, CoPilot will offer the support, guidance and assistance that will shore-up and transform their future. 

Look, here’s the thing. Product Managers should be strategic thinkers, transforming the fortunes of tech companies and powering growth through data-driven decision making. But for too long, you’ve been swamped with project management-style admin and overheads, taking your precious time away from focusing on what matters most. 

ProdPad has always been focused on rescuing PMs from this reality, and we’ve just gotten even better at it.

Enter ProdPad’s CoPilot, the most advanced Product Management AI in the world. Helping Product Teams lighten the load and power-up what they’re able to achieve. 

Why is CoPilot the best AI tool for Product Managers? 

ProdPad was the first Product Management tool to utilize AI technology to save Product Managers time. Back in 2018, our first AI Assistant DotBot was using similarity matching to automatically flag duplicate ideas and link customer feedback to relevant initiatives. 

In 2023, we added more promptless AI tools that saw Product Teams generate new ideas and write up documentation in moments. ProdPad AI has already generated over 11,000 idea descriptions, 5,000 roadmap initiatives, linked over 6,000 ideas to feedback, summarized over 2,500 pieces of feedback and generated 2,500 user stories for ProdPad customers, to name a few.   

Our AI capabilities have always been streets ahead of the competition, but now that gap is set to burst wide open. 

In a market where some competitor platforms are yet to introduce AI assistance of any kind, ProdPad’s CoPilot is changing the game completely – heck, we’re inventing a whole new game. 

The need for Product Managers to craft lengthy prompts that outline all the context of their product, the market, the vision and objectives just to feel confident that they can generate useful outputs, are a thing of the past. We have done all the priming and prompting so you don’t have to. This isn’t just AI, this is Product Management AI that’s ready to roll and poised to do PM work right off the bat. 

• No other PM AI tool has the capacity to coach a Product Manager, doing things like analyzing the strategic alignment of new ideas.
• No other AI tool can deliver outputs as hyper-relevant to the Product Management context, with an in-built understanding of the jobs and challenges Product Teams face. 
• No other PM AI tool combines both promptless AI and a chat interface.
• With no other PM AI tool can you give it a file and have it transform that into roadmaps, initiatives, feedback and more within your Product Management tool.

What’s under CoPilot’s hood? 

Here’s where things get really interesting (at least for us tech heads 😉). ProdPad’s CoPilot utilizes OpenAI’s API, but not in any way you’ve seen before in this space. CoPilot represents a unique application of the technology. 

My Co-Founder and our CTO, Simon Cast, jumped on the OpenAI API the moment it was made available. Waiting at the door to take advantage of this technology, knowing it would provide a monumental step change in our ability to answer ProdPad’s primary raison d’être – namely, to help save Product Managers’ time. 

Simon and the team have spent close to two years carefully crafting this latest iteration of ProdPad’s AI capabilities, painstakingly feeding the system instructions with Product Management context and experience, refining how it responds and completes actions.  

This detailed work means that CoPilot understands all prompts and commands from a Product Management point-of-view, thinking like a PM, knowing what a PM has to get done, and how a PM would approach each situation. The many months spent refining, adding to and improving CoPilot’s understanding of the PM context has paid off in spades.   

Alongside this work to meticulously prime the model, CoPilot’s content sources make it a truly unique tool in the Product Management space. Not only does CoPilot have an understanding of the Product Management context in general, but it also has complete access to your exact context. CoPilot can draw on all of the company’s Product Management work and data from within ProdPad, significantly reducing the chances of hallucinations. You guys can query your own product data through CoPilot and enjoy answers and outputs that are accurate, relevant and highly useful.

In this way, unlike other AI agents, ProdPad CoPilot isn’t constrained by a cut-off point when the model was trained. The crucial data is available to CoPilot each and every time it goes to answer a question or complete a task. 

Painstakingly detailed priming, unrivalled content sources, alongside retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and key phrase search make ProdPad CoPilot’s combination of promptless and chat-based AI the most powerful tool in the Product Management context. 

CoPilot also offers organizations the confidence that their data is secure. Each instance of CoPilot is logically separated meaning you can take advantage of CoPilot’s help without fear that your data will be shared and used to feed a broader model. There is no possibility of data leakage between accounts – finally you have an AI assistant who won’t reveal your secrets! 

And there’s more where this came from…

This is only the start for CoPilot, already seismic enhancements are in the works. I’ll try and avoid spoiler alerts here, but just imagine logging on first thing on a Monday morning, only to find this message from your trusty CoPilot…

“Good morning! I noticed that over the weekend you had 17 pieces of customer feedback relating to an integration with Mailchimp. I scanned the backlog and found no existing Ideas relating to that, so I’ve taken the liberty of creating an Idea, attaching all the feedback, and placing it in your queue for review this morning. Here’s a link to the Idea.” 

Eek. Nice right? 

Try it for yourself

I’ve only briefly skimmed the surface of what CoPilot can do. I would love you all to try it out for yourselves. 

Just start a ProdPad free trial, give CoPilot your existing roadmap, add a bit of info like your vision and then have a play! Ask CoPilot about the best ways to run Product processes, ask it to write you user stories, idea descriptions, get it to summarize your feedback, give it your feedback and ask for the themes. This isn’t just AI, this is the best Product Management AI in the world. Find out more and then take it for a spin.