Community Session: AMA with Claire Vo

Hello everyone. Welcome to our community session today. We're doing a Vzero AMA with Claire Vo and we're so excited um to chat with Claire today. Just a quick reminder, if you're new to the community and you want to engage with us in the chat, don't forget to click going in our

Versell community on the event box. And if you can't see it, don't forget to be signed in with your Versell account. But without further ado, let's bring up Claire. Hi everybody. Hi Claire. Welcome. Thanks. I'm excited to be here. Thank you. Thanks so much for joining us. Um so before we dig into Vzero and all things chat PRD, just going to give a brief intro on Claire who's joining us today. So Claire is founder of Chat PRD, which is an AI co-pilot for product managers and their teams. She's building

chat PRD out of her experience as a three-time chief product and technology officer, leading product design and engineering teams at companies like Launch Darkly, Color Health, Optimizely um which acquired Experiment Engine, another company she founded and led as CEO in 2017. So Claire is now an active speaker, adviser, board member and angel investor and she also hosts How I AI podcast which is why she has this beautiful background behind her. So

welcome Claire. Thank you. You forgot to mention I also have the perfect last name for this. You do. I know. You do. I almost mistyped it like three times when I was tweeting or posting about it. Um, amazing. Cool. Well, thank you again, Claire, for joining us. Um, and let's just jump right in. Great. I would love to hear a little bit about the origin story behind Chat PRD. So, you've done all these things we just mentioned. What made you say, "Okay, yeah, I'm gonna build something myself

and dive into your founder journey." Yeah, this is kind of wild reflecting on it, but I've been working on chat purity for almost two years now. Um, so it feels like forever in this age of AI. So two years ago, I was um CPTO at a health tech company called Color Health, running a fairly large product design, engineering, operations team. And this is when chat GBT and some of the models really became quite useful and a little

bit more kind of like proumer grade and accessibility. And in addition to having this sort of like fancy seuite title um where people think that I just like recruit and delegate to people. No, I was actually just like a PM on the on the team. Um, and so like all the other people on the team in addition to my job, I had to product manage products and like everybody on my team super super busy with, you know, 98% of my day filled up with meetings and no time to actually do deep work. And so I started

experimenting pretty quickly with generative AI in particular to help me build out product requirements documents. And there was this one meeting that we had at like 9:00 in the morning about a pretty technical product that needed to be built. And there were no PMs on the team that had any capacity to do it. I tended to take on the more technical products because I had this bridge between product and engineering and felt like I could do it quickly. And I remember we got out of that 9:00 a.m.

meeting and by noon I had sent this like eightpage detailed spec over to product engineering. I was like here here's the like here's the PRD here's the spec and they were like wait how did you how did you do how did you do that I was like oh I I used AI to do this and so um that was really the origin of how I I started prototyping um chat purity it started as um a GPT in the chat GPT store um but as