#005: Product Pulse Africa AI starter Kit
Your guide to navigating AI as a product manager
Hey Product Pulse community,
This week, we’re doing things a little differently.
Over the past few months, we’ve been curating, organizing, and refining a Notion-based resource hub to help Product Managers (like us) learn, experiment with, and build using AI—without needing to write a single line of code.
Today, we’re excited to share the first version with you.
📌 Introducing: The Product Pulse AI Starter Kit
This Notion doc is our springboard. It includes:
1. Tools to Try
A curated list of essential AI tools every PM should test out. Think of it as your hands-on playground—from brainstorming tools like ChatGPT and Claude to automation with Zapier, video editing with Descript, and user feedback analyzers like Kraftful. Bonus: a few starter prompts to get your creative juices flowing.
2. Courses
Free, high-quality courses tailored for PMs. Whether you're just starting out or want to deepen your understanding, these courses from IBM, Duke, Pendo, and Google will walk you through the fundamentals of AI, product use cases, and discovery techniques.
3. Newsletters & Podcasts
Stay sharp with recurring doses of insight and inspiration. From quick-read newsletters like The Rundown AI and Ben’s Bites to deeper PM-specific newsletters and podcasts like Lenny’s Podcast and AI Product Leader, this section helps us stay in the loop without getting overwhelmed.
Why should you care?
AI isn't a nice-to-have anymore. It’s a competitive edge. But for many of us in product, it still feels… out of reach. Too technical. Too fast-moving. Too theoretical.
So we wanted to change that.
This kit breaks down the noise and gives us practical, PM-friendly ways to learn and apply AI thinking—whether we’re at a startup or building inside a big bank.
🚀 Ready to explore?
👉 Click here to access the AI Starter Kit
(Totally free and growing on a regular basis)
Let us know what you find useful—or what you’d love to see next.