🧠 PM Wisdom Engine

Search 300+ Lenny's Podcast episodes for product management wisdom

An intelligent knowledge base that extracts insights, frameworks, and advice from Lenny's Podcast transcripts. Features a Decision Simulator that matches your situation to relevant guest advice, and a Career Stage Filter to surface content for your experience level.

✨ Features

🎯 Decision Simulator

Describe your situation in plain English and get relevant advice from guests who faced similar challenges.

"Our growth has slowed to 5% MoM. Should we expand to new markets or double down on our core?"

→ Returns relevant quotes from Elena Verna, Casey Winters, and others who've tackled growth challenges.

🌱 Career Stage Filter

Filter all content by your experience level:

• 🌱 Early PM (0-2 years) - Fundamentals, first PM job advice
• 🌿 Mid PM (2-5 years) - Growth, stakeholder management
• 🌳 Senior PM (5+ years) - Strategy, organizational influence
• 👔 PM Leader - Team building, hiring, culture
• 🚀 Founder - PMF, fundraising, startup tactics

🧠 Framework Extraction

Automatically extracts 14+ named frameworks including:

• 11-Star Experience (Brian Chesky)
• LNO Framework (Shreyas Doshi)
• DHM Framework (Gibson Biddle)
• Jobs To Be Done (Clayton Christensen)
• Continuous Discovery (Teresa Torres)
• And more...

⚡ Expert Contradictions

See where successful PMs disagree:

• Move Fast vs Get It Right
• Data-Driven vs Intuition
• Hire Specialists vs Generalists
• Delegation vs Staying in Details

Each debate includes a "💡 The Real Answer" explaining when each approach works.

🔍 Full-Text Search

Search across 5,000+ transcript segments with timestamp links to exact YouTube moments.

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v16 or higher)
• Git

Installation

# Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/pm-wisdom-engine.git
cd pm-wisdom-engine

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the full pipeline (takes 2-5 minutes)
npm run all

# Open the app
# Windows:
start dist\pm-wisdom-engine.html
# Mac:
open dist/pm-wisdom-engine.html

What npm run all does:

1. Clones 300+ transcripts from ChatPRD/lennys-podcast-transcripts
2. Parses episodes and extracts metadata
3. Chunks transcripts into searchable segments
4. Extracts frameworks with context
5. Finds contradictions between guests
6. Builds the single-file HTML app

📁 Project Structure

pm-wisdom-engine/
├── scripts/
│   ├── ingest.js              # Clone & parse transcripts
│   ├── extract-frameworks.js  # Extract named frameworks
│   ├── find-contradictions.js # Find opposing viewpoints
│   └── build-app.js           # Bundle into single HTML
├── src/
│   └── app.html               # Application template
├── data/                      # Generated JSON files
│   ├── episodes.json
│   ├── segments.json
│   ├── frameworks.json
│   ├── contradictions.json
│   └── insights.json
├── dist/
│   └── pm-wisdom-engine.html  # Final app (open this!)
└── package.json

🛠️ Available Scripts

🎮 Using the Decision Simulator

1. Go to 🎯 Decision Simulator in the sidebar
2. Describe your situation:

   I'm a PM at a Series B startup. We have traction but growth is slowing.
   Should we expand to new markets or double down on our core product?
   

3. Select your career stage and company stage
4. Click "🔮 Find Relevant Wisdom"
5. Get matched advice with relevance scores and YouTube links

Example Prompts to Try:

• "How should I approach pricing for my SaaS product?"
• "How do I know if we have product-market fit?"
• "Should I hire specialists or generalists for my team?"
• "My CEO keeps overriding my roadmap. How do I push back?"

📊 Data Sources

• Transcripts: ChatPRD/lennys-podcast-transcripts (300+ episodes)
• Podcast: Lenny's Podcast

🙏 Credits

• Lenny Rachitsky - For creating an incredible resource for product managers
• ChatPRD - For transcribing and open-sourcing the transcripts
• All the amazing guests - Whose wisdom makes this project valuable

📜 License

MIT License - feel free to use, modify, and distribute.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Ideas for improvement:

• Add more podcast sources
• Improve framework extraction accuracy
• Add guest network visualization
• Create MCP server for Claude/Cursor integration
• Add spaced repetition for learning

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