Colin Matthews

Founder of Tech for Product, Fractional PM leader

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Haas Private Cohort

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Get a complete guide to all the best practices you should use with AI prototyping! This 13 page PDF can be used with ChatGPT or Claude to guide you in using tools like Bolt, Replit, v0, and more.

AI Prototyping for Product Managers - Complete Guide

I'm excited to help you build your first AI prototype! By the end of this week, you'll have created a smart task management tool that uses AI to break down complex projects into actionable steps. Each lesson takes 15-20 minutes, and you'll be learning by doing - no technical background required.

Create Your First AI Prototype

Why do some decisions feel simple and others are painful and divisive? It has everything to do with how the decision is presented. Check out this free 8-part email course covering the basics of making good decisions in complex environments.

Structured Decision Making for Product Managers

Every web-based application relies on APIs, and yet few product managers understand how they work. In this free preview, you'll get access to an 8-part email course covering basics of APIs.

APIs for Product Managers

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Built Chippy.build, the vibe coding tool for ChatGPT Apps.  Featured by Lenny.

Build ChatGPT Apps

Strategic Partnerships

Product Manager | Instructor

Ship your first real SaaS in 8 weeks (with a secure SaaS template to get you started)

Build your first secure SaaS in 5 weeks

Sold my first SaaS in 2021. Product Manager, 8500+ students, featured by Lenny.

Vibe Code Production-Ready Side Projects

Product Lead

Product / Service Designer

Business Owner

Sr Product Manager

Business & Product Lead

Product designer

Lead Product Designer

Product Designer

Build your first AI prototype next week -- even if you have no coding skills

Build your first AI prototype next week

🚨Updated for 2026 to include:<ul><li>Using Claude Code to convert prototypes to and from Figma</li><li>Using your real components from your product for prototyping</li><li>Hand off to engineering to accelerate development cycles</li></ul><hr> Have you seen other PMs leveraging AI to ship prototypes at lightning speed , but when you try it yourself:- Basic tutorials leave you stuck on simple examples ?- Technical obstacles slow your momentum ?- Debugging feels impossible without coding experience ?- You're unsure which AI tools actually deliver value ? You know mastering AI prototyping could transform your workflow. But the path from curiosity to confidence isn't clear. With AI, you can build functional prototypes in minutes. That’s why this cohort is designed to expose you to essential AI prototyping tools and their unique capabilities. You'll learn to debug issues (even without coding experience) to stay productive and deliver real value.In just 4 weeks, you'll go from zero experience to shipping multiple prototypes -- from interactive prototypes to accompany your PRD, to personalized tools that boost your productivity.

Leverage vibe coding to ship your ideas faster

Discover AI prototyping tools

Master debugging

Integrate with LLMs

Bring your design system

Senior Product Managers who want to leverage AI to iterate faster

Product Leaders who want to get first-hand experience with how AI is transforming product development

UX Designers who want to translate their designs into functional prototypes the same day

Google

Microsoft

Stripe

LinkedIn

You’re excited by what’s possible with AI coding, but once you get past a prototype, the walls appear: errors you can’t debug, databases that break, and payments that don’t process.Tools like Replit, Bolt, and Lovable get you started fast, but aren’t production-ready. Meanwhile, you see posts raving about AI-built products and wonder: what’s the missing step?You need to learn the difference between prototypes and production.This course shows you how to get paid by real customers with Stripe, ship features safely using GitHub, deploy without downtime, catch bugs before users do with CI/CD, and build AI features that people rely on. You’ll submit projects for peer + instructor feedback—so by the end, you’ll have a production-ready SaaS and be ready to earn your first side-project dollar.

Go from idea to production and launch your first SaaS in 5 weeks.

Learn the fundamentals of engineering workflows

Discover how to get your first 100 customers

Uplevel your technical skills

You should understand APIs, databases, storage, and SaaS applications at a high level

Some technical skills

This course is dense -- you will need to dedicate 5-10 hrs per week to get value from the course

High agency or dedication

You will need to be able to read docs, watch videos, and look up information yourself as needed

Self sufficient 

Product managers, engineers, and designers who want to ship production-ready SaaS side hustles

Graduates of Lovable, Bolt, and Replit who finally want to learn real engineering workflows

Anyone who wants to launch their own product using tools like Github and Claude Code

Founder, Tech for Product

Build prototypes with your real code

Get one-on-one support to build your AI design system and start prototyping with your real code components.

Build Your AI Design System

Learn the foundations of building AI systems 

🔥 23 seats left for cohort #1 (updated daily)It's surprisingly hard to really learn how AI systems work. Either you're being told to use a specific framework or tool that you don't use at work, or the materials are way too technical and only an engineer could understand them. This unique half day workshop takes a different approach than most content you've seen. This is not a course about any specific AI tools or frameworks. Instead, this is a course to help you understand of AI agents one step at a time, starting from the very beginning. You'll learn how: 1️⃣ The core loop of an agent actually works 2️⃣ Tool calls between the LLM and your product communicate 3️⃣ Improving tool descriptions, errors, and system prompts steer your agent 4️⃣ Giving the agent an environment allows you to build more valuable productsBy the end of the session, you'll not only have shipped multiple agents, but you'll also have a new way of understanding how AI product really work.We'll cover a wide variety of topics related to building AI agents, so please read the full outline below!

Product managers working on AI products or features

Designers who want to better understand how AI products work

Product leaders who need to lean in to IC work to build their own understanding

Ship faster by building prototypes your engineering team will love

Ship faster with prototypes eng loves

OpenAI

Anthropic

AI prototyping has enabled anyone to quickly spin up an idea and share it. Prototypes make great communication tools, but when it comes time to ship, they're worse than useless. You want to hand engineering a prototype that helps them ship faster, not just explains an idea.In this half day workshop, I'll walk you through the exact workflows used by leading AI-enabled startups to ship prototypes using your real code. In just 4 hours, you'll learn how to:1️⃣ Build a design system inside AI prototyping tools based on your real code components 2️⃣ Instruct your AI tools to use your components effectively and correctly 3️⃣ Push your prototypes back into Figma or share the code directly with your engineering team This is not a theoretical idea or a presentation-based webinar. You will walk away having implemented these exact workflows in tools like Bolt and Claude Code, so you'll know the step-by-step process to bring back to your organization. If you want to build an AI-enabled team that ships faster, one of the most impactful things you can do is reduce the waste in your development lifecycle. Stop creating throw away prototypes and start building prototypes engineering will love.

Product leaders and managers who want to accelerate their software development lifecycle

Designers who want to hand off production-ready prototypes

How to build great agent Skills

Build an understand of what a skill is and how an LLM leverages it

Learn how skills actually work

Finally get a clear understanding of skills and plugins

No jargon, every term explained

Discover why one-shotting a skill is a bad approach and how you can iteratively improve your skills

Learn the iterative loop to improve your skills

How to Build an AI Agent From Scratch

Learn how LLMs and agents work without tools or frameworks

Learn the fundamentals of building with LLMs

Finally get a clear understanding of agents, tools, context windows, and more.

Learn the building blocks of agents so you can apply them yourself without relying on existing tools

Build an understanding of foundations agent building blocks

Convert Figma Designs to Code with Claude Code

Discover the basics of Figma MCP, and how to use it to convert designs to code and vice versa

Learn about the latest updates to Figma MCP

See where the Figma MCP falls short and how to work around it's rough edges

Discover common challenges & pitfalls

Ship a custom skill for figma to improve the quality of your translations

Learn how to ship a custom skill for Figma

Learn to Build ChatGPT Apps

Discover the basics of MCP, the Apps SDK, and how to integrate your product into ChatGPT

Learn how to build a ChatGPT app with MCP

Learn how to improve tool descriptions, build a golden prompt set, and get ChatGPT to reliably invoke your app

Watch practical examples of how to build app UIs within ChatGPT

Build custom UI in ChatGPT

End-to-End Production Vibe Coding Process

Creating PRDs, components, and AI prototypes are just the first three steps in my 8 step process for vibe coding apps

See my exact process for shipping production-ready apps

Learn to avoid tech debt and error hell by validating first and building real apps second

Validate before building with AI prototypes

Accelerate your development process with SaaS template and engineering support

Colin Matthews will level up your technical skills

Colin Matthews

About Colin

Courses

AI Prototyping for Product Managers

Vibe Code Production-Ready Side Projects

Workshops

AI Agent System Design for Product Managers

Prototype With Your Real Components and Hand Off Actual Code

Lightning Lessons

How to build great agent Skills

How to Build an AI Agent From Scratch

Convert Figma Designs to Code with Claude Code

Learn to Build ChatGPT Apps

End-to-End Production Vibe Coding Process

Learn to Build ChatGPT Apps

Services

Build Your AI Design System

Resources

AI Prototyping for Product Managers - Complete Guide

Create Your First AI Prototype

Structured Decision Making for Product Managers

APIs for Product Managers