Build your personal AI copilot

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Tal Raviv went from an AI skeptic to teaching over 20,000 tech workers how to use AI to move faster at work. In this episode, he shares a step-by-step guide to building your own AI copilot using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or M365 Copilot. If you're still wondering how to leverage AI, start here.

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In this episode, you'll learn

• How AI copilots become thinking partners that know you and your work inside out

• Why Tal prefers the term context engineering

• The four-step framework for building a useful copilot

• Dozens of example prompts for strategic thinking, learning, and productivity

• How to output structured documents, prototypes, and automations

• How to create a copilot that gets smarter with every project

• What's next: AI copilots that push you to be better

References

• A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

• Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv

• How Experienced Growth PMs Analyze Data with AI

• How to book Tal for one-day team workshops

• Make product management fun again with AI agents

• Oleksii Monchyk

• OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen

• Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly

• Student Example #1: Career development copilot for women

• Student Example #2: Onboarding copilot for new PMs

• Tal’s “Build Your Personal PM Productivity System & AI Copilot” course in September (use code LENNYSLIST for $100 off)

• Tal’s free guide and live demos of advanced copilot use cases

• Tal’s upcoming free lightning lesson on how to use Cursor as a PM copilot