Field Notes

The decisions that don't make the conference stage.

Member-bylined essays on what product leadership actually takes — written from the trenches, not the stage. The Counsel co-creates; Rampersand amplifies.

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The index

What's been written from the room

Illustrative — drawn from past Pulse topics to show the future index. Essays live on Substack.

From the June Pulse

What pricing taught me about the roadmap

What you expose, meter, bundle, cap and promise becomes roadmap pressure.

Nick Cust · Cake From the Pulse archive

Re-building Hatch from scratch

Tearing down a product that worked, to build the one the market actually needed.

Adam Jacobs · Hatch From the Pulse archive

Metrics before product-market fit

What's worth measuring when there isn't much to measure yet.

Susan Huon-Jarvis · Matched From the Pulse archive

Harnessing AI to maximise delivery velocity

Where the gains are real, where they're hype, and how to tell the difference.

Lauren Peate · Multitudes

It's rare to find a group that shares the real product journey, not just the shiny bits.

Kirsten Mann · CEO & Founder, Vizory

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