Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
“Have you ever noticed that AI gets worse the longer you talk to it? I first noticed this when I was trying to fix bugs on Replit. I'd spin in an endless cycle of asking the agent to fix something and it would report back that it fixed it,”
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine why hiring processes often fail product teams despite their rigor. They describe how AI-inflated application volumes, longer funnels, and many stakeholders create noise, and how…
This post is a monthly reading guide for a book club celebrating the fifth anniversary of Continuous Discovery Habits, focused on Chapter 3 about outcomes versus outputs. It frames the chapter's core idea: product teams…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the build vs. buy decision, which AI is reshaping. They argue the classic rule of thumb, to avoid building non-core functions, has limits, since vendors may be better positioned…
This episode of Just Now Possible features three leaders from Healio, a 125-year-old medical publisher, discussing how they built Healio AI, an assistant helping physicians prepare for patient care. The core argument is…
Teresa Torres walks non-specialists through how large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini turn a prompt into a response, without assuming any machine learning background. She organizes the explanation…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with co-host Petra Wille, previews the 2026 Product at Heart conference. The hosts explain that curating a single-track event is harder when AI moves so quickly, so AI will…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Tendos AI's leaders discussing how they automate the tendering workflow for construction manufacturers, where teams manually parse huge bid-request PDFs, match products, price…
Teresa Torres reflects on 2025 and lays out her 2026 roadmap, framed around the idea of 'just now possible' enabled by generative AI. She describes building AI coaches and tools, sunsetting her cohort-based Deep Dive…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille open 2026 with a casual behind-the-scenes conversation about what is changing in their work and what they are experimenting with. Teresa explains retiring live Deep Dive cohorts in favor of…
This podcast episode features Elliot Little and Dan St. Paul of Zero Gravity, a UK platform helping state-school students reach elite careers through mentoring and learning pathways. They describe building an AI career…
Teresa Torres walks through the building blocks of Claude Code: markdown context files, slash commands, agents and sub-agents, skills, hooks, and plug-ins. Her core argument is that going deep on one tool and…
This post announces the 2026 Continuous Discovery Habits Book Club, a monthly reading program built around Teresa Torres's book to help readers practice continuous discovery rather than just read about it. The January…
This episode of Teresa Torres's show features Jack Taylor and Ibrahim Faruqi of Gradient Labs, an AI-native fintech startup automating customer support. They argue frontline answers are only the visible tip of support…
In this end-of-year episode, product veterans Teresa Torres and Petra Wille compare their personal reflection rituals, built over years of product work and self-experimentation. Both have moved away from rigid annual…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Mowie's CEO Chris O'Connor and co-founder Jessica Valenzuela discussing how their AI marketing platform for small and medium businesses grew out of a hands-on concierge…
Teresa Torres describes how her blog-writing process changed once she began using Claude as a collaborator for outlining, critiquing, researching, and headline work, which lets her write more. She argues that designing…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that product transformations stall when teams are trained in continuous discovery but leaders keep managing through feature requests and roadmaps. Training leaders first is presented…
This podcast episode follows Perk, a company that eliminates 'shadow work' like travel booking, as its team built a voice AI agent that calls hotels to verify virtual credit card payments. The project grew from a…
Teresa Torres describes her daily workflow of pair-working with Claude Code over the past five months, from task pulling and research digests to drafting articles and producing podcasts. She argues the productivity…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille revisit their earlier skepticism about using AI to analyze and synthesize customer interviews, now shaped by about six months of experiments. Teresa ran 15 interviews through…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how product people can deliberately build communities of practice to support long-term learning. Teresa describes an introvert-friendly approach centered on a personal learning…
Teresa Torres interviews the founders of Rest, a startup that built a voice-first AI sleep coach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI). The team began by noticing that users of their podcast app…
Teresa Torres synthesizes conversations with nine product teams building AI features in production, highlighting recurring patterns across their work. She argues that small cross-functional teams, domain expertise, and…
In this All Things Product episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the emotional reality of setbacks in product work, drawing on Teresa's personal experience of a long injury recovery. They argue that failed…
This episode of a product podcast walks through how Xelix built an AI Helpdesk for accounts payable teams, which often receive over a thousand vendor emails daily. The product turns that inbox noise into structured…
Teresa Torres argues that Claude Code can become a powerful personal operating system for non-technical people, but only if users understand the risks of giving a language model access to their computer. She walks…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the practical pain of global invoicing and EU tax compliance for small international online businesses. They argue that platforms and product teams often miss small regulatory…
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…
Teresa Torres explains how she stopped re-explaining her business to AI tools by giving Claude Code a persistent, file-based memory. Instead of uploading context into chats or web Projects, she stores knowledge in local…