AI-Augmented Product Discovery & Ideation Validation with Dean Peters

About this event

**Learn to identify the right thing to build before burning runway on building it right.** This month we're excited to feature [Dean Peters](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanpeters/), Principal Consultant and Trainer at [Productside](https://www.productside.com/), where he teaches outcome-based product management, AI Product Management, and customer discovery. Dean writes regularly about cutting through AI hype at [deanpeters.substack.com](https://deanpeters.substack.com/) and maintains a set of open, free AI-for-product libraries founders can grab tonight: 100+ copy-paste prompts, 70+ agent skills, and an AI product operating model. He has been shipping products since before "vibe-coding" was a phrase, and he is here to help you stop confusing motion with progress. Hosted by [Parker Mayes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parkermayes/) and [James Fredley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesfredley/), this event brings together startup founders and teams with a panel of experts for real, practical conversations about building companies from the ground up. Food Sponsor: Reach out Space Sponsor: https://www.raleighfounded.com/ - The coworking space built for you AI just made building almost free. You can vibe-code a prototype over a weekend and a pitch deck before lunch, which is exactly why more startups are about to fail faster, and more confidently, than ever. Because building was never the real constraint. Knowing whether anyone wants the thing was. So this is a working session, not a slide deck. Dean will put AI to work live across the four discovery motions that carry a startup from a napkin sketch to actual fans, using tools he keeps open and free so you leave with the techniques, not just notes: → **Market research.** Turn loose market-intelligence agents that scan your competitive landscape, size the market, and mine what real customers already complain about in public, in minutes instead of weeks. → **Storytelling.** Spin that research, and the resulting…