Recommendation Canvas

Built for PM stakeholder pitches, this helps you fill out a structured canvas that forces clarity on business outcomes, customer outcomes, problem framing, solution hypotheses, positioning, risks, and success metrics. It's adapted from Dean Peters' Productside framework and treats AI features as bets to validate rather than commitments to build. Use it when you need to justify an AI product idea to execs or align cross-functional teams on whether something's worth pursuing. The canvas synthesizes discovery insights you should already have, so don't start here if you haven't done user research yet. It's deliberately comprehensive without being a PRD or full business case.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill recommendation-canvas --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Purpose

Evaluate and propose AI product solutions using a structured canvas that assesses business outcomes, customer outcomes, problem framing, solution hypotheses, positioning, risks, and value justification. Use this to build a comprehensive, defensible recommendation for stakeholders and decision-makers—especially when proposing AI-powered features or products that carry higher uncertainty and risk.

This is not a feature spec—it's a strategic proposal that articulates why this AI solution is worth building, what assumptions need validating, and how you'll measure success.

Input

Works best with: The AI product or feature idea being evaluated. Also useful: Target customer, expected business outcome, known risks, and who the recommendation must convince.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

Arriving empty-handed? That works too. The skill asks for the idea and the decision-maker, then works through the canvas boxes.

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Details

Repository: github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills
First seen: Apr 16, 2026