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I spent 100s of hours building a PM OS for you

Claude code is the best AI tool I have used. Here's 6 months of learning condensed into one PM operating system

Aakash Gupta
Feb 05, 2026
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“Claude Code with Opus-4.6 is basically AGI”

It’s true. And this has huge implications for PMs. I would say Claude Code with Opus-4.5 was as big a moment as ChatGPT.

Because you can now do everything a PM does with Claude Code:

  • Analyze customer feedback & data

  • Survey and interview customers

  • Synthesize that feedback

  • Create your PRD

  • Explore the solution space

  • And even code the first draft PR for your eng team

PMs at Notion, for instance? They’re literally shipping PRs (Pull Requests):

But you can’t accomplish this level of PM automation with a vanilla setup of Claude Code. To take advantage of today’s Opus-4.6 release, you need the right harness.


Introducing the PM Operating System

I want you all to be operating like next-gen PMs. So I’ve put together a copy-paste starter kit to go from zero to hero in Claude Code.

Now, this is more than your average newsletter. This is months of figuring out what actually works. Hundreds of iterations. Testing, improving, learning.

It’s not theory. It’s not random templates I found on the internet.

It’s the actual system I use and recommend


How to Get It

You have two options to get the PM OS:

  1. Buy it one-time on Gumroad for $49

  2. Join my Founders Plan for $250

    • Get access to all of my digital products (including prompt library)

    • Plus a year of the newsletter


Why You Should Get My PM OS

Let’s be honest: staying on top of all the latest hacks and optimizations in Claude Code is a full-time job. I have done that job for you, and am sharing:

  1. One-click copy-paste to get to my Claude Code level setup

  2. All of the knowledge of my testing and failures encoded

  3. My POV on what you should automate - and how

It’s my 16 years of PM + full-time exploration of the tool in a product.


What’s Inside

Here’s a small preview of what you get (not everything because people will copy it):

pm-operating-system/
├── CLAUDE.md              ← Master context (Claude reads this first)
├── setup/                 ← Installation & first session checklist
├── .claude/skills/        ← 30+ custom commands for common PM tasks
├── context-library/       ← Your company info, writing styles, stakeholders
├── sub-agents/            ← 7 AI reviewers (engineer, designer, exec, legal...)
├── templates/             ← Launch checklists, roadmaps, OKRs, retros

Claude.md: I have iterated on this file over 100 times! This is kind of like the “system prompt” for Claude Code. What you think will work in here doesn’t always. After lots of testing, I’ve perfected what should be in here.

Context Library: This is a step-by-step walkthrough of what context Claude will need to perform its work properly.

Skills: These 41 skills encode all my thoughts on topics like how to write PRDs, do user interviews, send out meeting updates that you can invoke as easily as /prd-draft.

You’ll get complete processes for:

  • PRD creation (4-8 hours → 30 minutes)

  • User interview processing (2-3 hours → 15 minutes)

  • Meeting cleanup (2 hours → 5 minutes)

  • And much more than any other product…

Sub-Agents: One of the most powerful tools in Claude Code is sub-agents. With the OS, you’ll get 7+ perspectives on your work in 2 minutes.

Templates: My recommended format for launch checklists, roadmaps, OKRs, retrospectives. Perfect if you’re just setting up your product team.

Of course, I used Claude Code to build this. The reason you can’t rebuild it is you can’t replace my 100s of iterations testing and using it. 100s of hours adding in all the little tricks.

Putting it all together, it’s the most comprehensive Claude Code setup for PMs available anywhere.

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