Written by a lead PO/BA who implemented an AI-assisted specification→development pipeline (GitHub Copilot) now running in production at a major French insurer.
Specs your devs don't bounce back.
A newsletter for Product Owners, PMs and Business Analysts who use AI to write specifications — and need them to survive contact with an engineering team. Workflows tested in production, prompts with their failure modes documented, and lessons from real spec reviews. Written only: no video, no calls, no hype.
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01. What you get
One email a month. Never skipped, never padded.
- Practical AI-assisted spec workflows. The prompt-and-review loops that turn a rough backlog item into a spec a developer can implement — as used in production, not in a demo.
- Prompt of the month. One prompt, documented like an engineering artifact: when to use it, the context it needs, a worked example, and where it fails.
- Teardown lessons. What actually gets specs bounced back by dev teams — patterns from real reviews, anonymized, with the fix.
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03. Coming soon
Two products, in the works.
A. Digital product
The PO Prompt Vault
A prompt library and spec-template system for product work. Every prompt is documented like an engineering artifact — when to use it, what to paste in, a worked example, and where it fails.
Coming soon →
B. Fixed-price service
The 48-hour Spec Teardown
A written review of your spec in 48 business hours: annotated document, prioritized fix list, one section rewritten to show the standard. No call required — none offered.
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04. About
Who writes this.
Written by a lead PO/BA who implemented an AI-assisted specification→development pipeline (GitHub Copilot) now running in production at a major French insurer.
Ship the Spec is a written-first publication. No YouTube channel, no webinars, no "book a quick call". Everything here is prompts, templates and teardown lessons drawn from real delivery — sanitized, never a client's artifact. If it can't be explained in writing, it isn't understood well enough to ship.
— Pierre K.