Product management, minus some of the politics

Your roadmap has
enough opinions.

Give your agent the goals your company agreed on and the context behind them.

Ask what to bet on. See the evidence. Make the call.

Now your decisions have receipts.

Works with Claude and ChatGPT. Bring whichever agent you already argue with.

Example conversation in your agentIllustration — not a live session, and not anyone's real numbers

your agent · golden beans connectedillustration
you what should we bet on this cycle?
golden beans comparing against your North Star…
Onboarding redesign
Expected lift: +8–12% activation · confidence: high · ~3 weeks to signal
Loyalty program
Expected lift: retention-dependent · confidence: low · ~6 weeks to signal
Your call. I brought the case.

Try it before you connect anything

Give your agent one Golden Bean.

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, or the agent you already use. It reads the public Golden Beans guide, explains what it can do, then offers to run the North Star workshop with you.

No account. No MCP. No tiny onboarding hostage situation.

When you want the work to persist — or your agent to use live product context — that's when you connect Golden Beans.

Handoff prompt · public routes
Read https://golden-beans-gamma.vercel.app/llms.txt and act as my product-thinking partner for this conversation.

First, explain Golden Beans in plain English: what it is, what it gives my agent, and what it deliberately does not do. Keep it brief and don't sell me.

Then give me two choices:
1) ask questions about Golden Beans, or
2) run the North Star workshop now.

If I choose the workshop, read https://golden-beans-gamma.vercel.app/northstar-self-serve.md and facilitate it one question at a time. Use my answers, challenge vague language, and keep the goal measurable. At the end, summarize the proposed North Star, its inputs, guardrails, assumptions, and the first things we should test.

Do not claim you are connected to my Golden Beans workspace unless I have actually connected the MCP. The Golden Beans MCP connector is read-only: even once connected you can read my product context, but you cannot write my North Star or save this conversation. If we finish useful work, say so plainly — tell me the summary lives only in this chat, and that I can set the North Star up myself in Golden Beans so that you have it as ongoing context next time.

How it grows

Plant once. Keep asking better questions.

No migration project. No new place for everyone to stare at charts.

Golden Beans gives your agent the product context it needs to work alongside you.

① Pick what winning means

Give it a North Star.

Start with the goal your company can actually agree on. Your agent now has something better than an opinion to work from.

One number. Fewer philosophical debates.

② Connect what knows the truth

Give it context.

Connect the places that know what customers did, what shipped, and what it cost. Your agent can finally see the same product you do.

No new dashboard required.

③ Ask away

Put it to work.

Ask what to bet on, what changed, whether it worked, or what you should look at next. The answer comes back against the goal.

With receipts.

We considered adding a twelve-week implementation phase here. It tested poorly.

Everyone has a good reason

Product decisions get complicated when humans are involved.

Sales heard it from a prospect. Engineering knows where the bodies are buried. The CEO has seen this movie before.

None of them are necessarily wrong.

The loudest idea travels furthest

A good idea shouldn't become a great idea because someone outranks the room.

Seniority is useful context. Not a confidence interval.

Every metric has a lawyer

Retention says yes. Revenue says maybe. That dashboard nobody fully trusts says absolutely.

Eventually, someone has to call it

Usually you. Preferably before the meeting about the meeting.

Opinions aren't the problem.

Good product teams should disagree. Golden Beans gives your agent the same quantifiable goal to test those ideas against — regardless of who suggested them.

The idea gets a fair hearing. The org chart doesn't get a vote.

Bring an agent to the argument

Not to win it.

Your agent can compare the bets against the goal, check what happened before, and work out what waiting could cost.

It doesn't care whose idea it was. Neither does the math.

Example conversation in your agentNot a Golden Beans chat screen

your agent · golden beans connectedillustration
you what should we bet on this cycle?
compare_initiatives onboarding_redesign vs. loyalty_program
Onboarding redesign — direct North Star lift · ~3 weeks to signalHIGH CONFIDENCE
Loyalty program — lift depends on retention · ~6 weeks to signal10% CONFIDENCE
Your call. Your agent did the homework. You decide whether the evidence is good enough.

Much nicer than “because Steve really believes in it.” Steve is probably lovely.

From “I think” to “here’s why”

Your agent finally has product context.

Golden Beans connects what customers do, what your team ships, what you bet on, and whether it worked.

It already has the receipts.

What should we bet on?

Compare before six weeks disappear.

See expected impact, confidence, effort and the cost of waiting.

Bet with a case

Should we ship it?

Turn the decision into a controlled rollout.

You choose who gets it, how much, and when.

Your call

Did it work?

Measure the bet.

See whether the thing you shipped moved the number it was supposed to. Not whether the launch announcement collected twelve celebratory reactions.

What actually happened?

The whole story, in one trail.

See the decision, rollout and result without branches, rebases, or Git archaeology.

ONE
HANDFUL
GOLDEN BEANSWHAT YOUR AGENT GETS TO WORK WITH
YOUR AGENT CAN UNDERSTANDTHE PRODUCT
Where customers get stuckBehavior
What actually moves your North StarImpact
Who is doing what — and where they drop offJourneys
Safe, gradual releasesReleases
Which version actually winsTests
Will launch day survive?Risk · not switched on yet
What changed, in plain EnglishHistory
What your agent is allowed to touchControl
Why a decision was madeReceipts
TECHNICAL UNDER THE HOOD. PM-READABLE ON PURPOSE.

In Golden Beans /app · releasesIllustration — the product UI, not anyone's real releases

Release legibility

See what changed in human language: who saw it, what happened, and whether anything still needs your decision.

Checkout v2 — testing with 10% of customers in Mexico
1 in 10 eligible customers in Mexico sees the new checkout. The other 90% stays on the current version while you measure the difference.
TESTING
Quick Upload — experiment finished, chosen version is live
The test is closed. The version you selected has shipped to its intended audience, with the result kept beside the original bet.
SHIPPED
Black Friday readiness — stress test needs your decision
You simulated launch-day traffic before spending the campaign budget. Review the risk, then keep the plan, reduce exposure, or fix the weak point first.
YOUR CALL
A product principle

Agnostic about ideas.
Conservative about actions.

Your agent can investigate, compare, challenge and propose. Anything that changes the product gets staged first.

Then you make the call.

In Golden Beans /app · releasesIllustration — your agent proposes, you confirm, with your own data

PROPOSED RELEASE · checkout-v2WAITING ON YOU

Show Checkout v2 to 10% of eligible customers in Mexico?

Your agent suggested a small first release. 1 in 10 eligible customers in Mexico would see the new checkout; everyone else stays on the current version while you watch the result.

Why this size?

Enough traffic to learn without putting the whole market behind an unproven change.

What are we watching?

Expected North Star lift: +4–7% · current confidence: 82%.

Because “the AI did it” isn't much of an audit trail.

Your agent gets leverage. Not a blank cheque.

Every write stages first. Every credential is scoped. Every action leaves a trail.

Autonomy is great. Surprise production changes less so.

Live today: the staged write tools are switched on, and every one of them still requires your explicit confirmation before it applies. SHIPPED · signals-loop

Less coordination. More product management.

The question shouldn't take longer than the answer.

You don't need Golden Beans to replace your engineers, analysts, executives — or your judgment.

You need less work between having a question and being able to make a good call. That's leverage.

Without Golden Beans

Question

Find the dashboard

Ask analytics

Ask engineering

Meeting

Meeting about previous meeting

Decision

We considered adding another meeting here for realism.

With Golden Beans

Question

Ask your agent

Inspect the case

Decision

Your calendar may experience side effects.

Proof

Leverage should show up in the numbers.

Otherwise this is just a nice landing page.

Pod report

Your dev team, as a revenue engine.

Computed, not claimed — every figure below comes from golden-beans's own git and pull-request history, measured over 25 days and 199 commits. Nothing here is estimated, and the things we cannot measure are listed beside the things we can.

2.1 dmedian epic lead time
21 / weekdeploys / week (proxy)
step 1 · Assistedon the published AI-adoption ladder
11things we do not measure — and say so

Not instrumented here: velocity (points per sprint) · cost per shipped point · change failure rate · failed-deployment recovery time · throughput (stories per period). Each gap names the guardrail that would close it — which is most of what a pods engagement installs.

COMPUTED · pod-report

The engine, live

Not screenshots. The actual engine, right now.

A real read, performed just nowNot an illustration — the same queries your agent would run

Everything below is rendered from the synthetic golden-beans-demo project by the same queries your agent would run.* No client data appears on this page, ever.

claude — connected: golden-beans · golden-beans-demorevocable
you how's the setup-guide funnel?
get_tars_funnel { project: "golden-beans-demo", feature: "setup_guide" } { targeted: 60, adopted: 39, retained: 16 }
Targeted · 60
Adopted · 39
Retained · 16
Adoption 65%, retention 41%. Targeted is registry-declared, not gateway-observed — the engine tells you so itself.

you and the north star?
get_north_star { project: "golden-beans-demo" } { metric: "payable_sellers", value: 35, wow: 0.409 }
35 +40.9%
payable_sellers · setup_guide_completions linked · per-feature impact report

you is quick-upload winning?
compare_experiment { experiment: "quick-upload-ui", metricEvent: "upload_completed" }
control (baseline)6.3%80 exposed · 5 converted
treatment 7.5%80 exposed · 6 converted +20.0%
deterministic client-side bucketing · basic lift only — no significance engine yet, and we won't pretend otherwise.

* These numbers are independently checkable: /api/v1/public/north-star is public for the demo project and returns the same underlying data. Curl it mid-meeting.

Yes, you can build this yourself

PostHog is great. GrowthBook is great.

Your warehouse probably works just fine too. Connect them. Normalize the concepts. Give your agent safe access. Build approvals. Correlate releases to outcomes. Maintain the glue.

Or don't.

Stitching the tools you already have, compared with Golden Beans
ConcernStitch it yourselfGolden Beans
Your agent knowsWhatever you've wired upThe product context behind the decision
A bet becomesWork across several systemsOne case against the goal
An action becomesWhatever each tool permitsStaged → confirmed → logged
What shippedSomewhere in the repoOne line a PM can actually read
Did it work?Back to the dashboardsBack to the original bet

Golden Beans isn't another place to analyze your product. It's the product layer your agent was missing.

Bring your agent

Your agent. Your call.

Claude person? Great. ChatGPT person? Also great.

Golden Beans isn't here to start another AI preference war. We have roadmaps to ship.

Claude

Connect Golden Beans

Add your Golden Beans MCP connection and start asking product questions from Claude.

Connect to Claude
ChatGPT

Bring Golden Beans into ChatGPT

Connect the remote MCP and let ChatGPT work from the same product context.

Connect to ChatGPT

Availability and capabilities vary by plan. Yes, we also wish these sentences aged more slowly.

Your own agent

It's MCP. Go wild.

Point a compatible agent at Golden Beans. Your product context shouldn't depend on which model won Twitter this week.

Read the MCP docs
For the engineers who will inevitably ask

Yes, there's an SDK.

A few lines get the first event in. Your engineers keep control of what enters Golden Beans. You get a product layer you and your agent can actually operate.

Everybody gets to keep their IDE.

npm install @golden-beans/sdk
Pricing

Pricing that doesn't require a meeting.

Start with one project for $0. Bring the rest of the company when they inevitably ask where you got the numbers.

Humans remain unmetered.

A handful

$0

One project. Enough Golden Beans to find out whether we're onto something.

  • Full product context
  • Experiments & rollouts
  • Agent connection
Start free

No credit card. We checked.

The vault

Pods

Your team, augmented with the same ways of working we use ourselves. Benchmarked before and after, because “it felt faster” isn't a Pod Report.

Talk to us

We meter events. Not coworkers. Per-tenant limits are set on the tenant, not by this page — raising one is a database change, never a redeploy. (multi-tenant-activation)

Still deciding?

Fair.

Ask your agent whether Golden Beans is likely to move your North Star.

At least one of us should practice what we preach.

Paste this into your agent
Read https://golden-beans-gamma.vercel.app/llms.txt. Based on what Golden Beans actually does, help me decide whether it could improve how I manage product decisions and move our North Star. Ask me only the minimum questions you need about my product, current decision process, and where context gets lost. Then give me: (1) where Golden Beans would create leverage, (2) where it probably would not help, and (3) whether the next sensible step is the North Star workshop or connecting Golden Beans. Don't pretend you have access to my workspace unless I connect it.

Free to try. No credit card. No sales call mysteriously disguised as a “quick chat”.