Agent memory, launch readiness, and founder workflows — not generic code-scan hype.
A practical founder guide to knowing what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI has built, what still needs checking, and what your agent should do next. Includes prompts for progress reviews, project memory, scope control, and handoffs.
By Ville Ylläsjärvi · August 28, 2026
Your roadmap may be in Notion while your agents work from chat. Product management memory is the small, durable record that keeps goals, tasks, and decisions consistent between the two.
By Ville Ylläsjärvi · July 2, 2026
A strong Claude Code session can still leave the next session guessing. Here is a practical way to keep product decisions, task ownership, and verification outside the chat transcript.
By Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 25, 2026
A launch checklist is only useful when every check points to evidence. This is the short list I use to separate “the agent said done” from work I would actually release.
By Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 18, 2026
When a freelancer leaves or you hire your first engineer, product memory beats Slack threads and git blame.
By Ville Ylläsjärvi · June 11, 2026
A practical founder guide to knowing what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI has built, what still needs checking, and what your agent should do next. Includes prompts for progress reviews, project memory, scope control, and handoffs.
A founder workflow for recovering approved decisions, unfinished work, and verification evidence when a new Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI session seems to start from scratch.
How to turn repeated AI coding fixes into a reproducible investigation, a bounded repair, and evidence you can review without reading every line of code.
A founder guide to keeping AI coding work aligned with the customer problem, separating prerequisites from optional ideas, and reviewing changes before the release grows.
A practical project handoff for founders moving between Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI: preserve scope, unfinished changes, verification, and the next action.
A practical fit check for non-coding founders: what you need to own, where an agent can help, and when the project needs technical expertise beyond prompting.
When an agent can produce code, the founder’s job becomes making the goal, decisions, and evidence clear. Here is a practical way to manage that responsibility without reading every implementation detail.
Coding agents make a practical experiment possible: describe one customer outcome, inspect the result, and learn whether to continue. Here is how to use that opportunity without confusing a prototype with a business.
Two recent studies looked at tens of thousands of pull requests written by coding agents. The pattern is uncomfortable: agents can produce code quickly, but they still lose context, take on work nobody wanted, and hand reviewers changes that are too broad to trust.
Your roadmap may be in Notion while your agents work from chat. Product management memory is the small, durable record that keeps goals, tasks, and decisions consistent between the two.
A strong Claude Code session can still leave the next session guessing. Here is a practical way to keep product decisions, task ownership, and verification outside the chat transcript.
A launch checklist is only useful when every check points to evidence. This is the short list I use to separate “the agent said done” from work I would actually release.
When a freelancer leaves or you hire your first engineer, product memory beats Slack threads and git blame.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code start from different sessions. The fix is not a longer prompt; it is a small project record that survives all three.