Questions, answered.

What is CPO of One?

CPO of One (cpoofone.com) is a site from Utlyze for heads of product and product managers. It covers product discovery and AI-feature decisions inside a company: prototyping with AI, specs agents can act on, evals and user research.

Who is CPO of One for?

Heads of product and product managers at small and mid-size software companies who sit between stakeholders and users, and who now have AI tools that can turn an idea into a working prototype.

Do product managers need to code now?

Not to ship production code. AI prototyping tools let a product manager build a working prototype and test an idea with users before engineering time is spent. Production code still belongs with engineers and their review process.

What is AI prototyping?

Generating an interactive prototype from a prompt or a written spec, then putting it in front of real users to see what they do with it. The prototype is a question, not a release.

How do I write a spec an AI coding agent can build from?

State who it is for, what done looks like, the data and screens involved, and what must not happen. Add examples of good and bad results. Keep the parts a person must decide, such as scope and trade-offs, in plain sentences at the top.

How do I evaluate an AI feature before launch?

Collect real inputs, write down what good and bad outputs look like, run the feature against that set (these are evals), and review the failures with users. Rerun the same set whenever the model or prompt changes.

Can AI do user research?

It can transcribe, tag and summarize interviews, and help you spot patterns across many of them. It cannot replace talking to users, and its summaries should be checked against the recordings.

How should we price AI features?

Start from what each use costs you to run and what the result is worth to the customer, then choose between bundling, usage limits or a separate tier. Test the price with customers the same way you test the feature.

How much are Consult and Build?

Consult is $400 an hour, reserved in 5-hour blocks ($2,000 minimum). Build starts at $15,000 a month for a dedicated team that builds with you around the clock and is on call 24/7.

How is this different from Business of One?

CPO of One covers product decisions inside a company: what to test, how to prototype, how to judge AI features. Business of One is for owners who run an AI-first business as a whole. Both are run by Utlyze, and both offer Consult and Build on the same terms.