Nerdy
A field manual for modern product engineering.
Working models, interactive tools, AI prompts, and hands-on workshops for people building orgs that deliver on outcomes and adapt quickly.
Problems and Opportunities
Technical debt is swallowing the roadmap and every refactor feels like a fight.
Engineering spend keeps climbing, your engineers say everything is friction, and nobody can prove where the friction actually is.
You're shipping constantly and nothing is changing. The roadmap is full, the release notes are long, and the metrics haven't moved.
The system can't respond to change fast enough to matter.
Teams are slow, siloed, or stepping on each other, and coordination is eating the day.
Change efforts keep stalling because leadership isn't aligned on what change looks like.
A field manual your AI can read
Connect any MCP client and your assistant searches the collection, pulls in a concept, and follows links mid-conversation, grounded in working models instead of guesses.
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user nerdy https://nerdnoir.ai/api/mcpAdd to Cursor (hands off to the Cursor app)The Cursor button hands off to the app (if nothing happens, it is not installed). Claude Desktop and ChatGPT need a few manual steps; the setup guide covers both. Requires a free nerdnoir.ai account, and your client prompts you to sign in once.
Explore by Topic
Curated concepts, models, and frameworks spanning essential domains in contemporary product engineering -- AI, product, engineering, workflow, organizational design, and change management.
Practices, techniques, and interactive exploration tools for more effective product engineering, leadership, and strategy.
Our workshops curate and reference the topics on this site into hands-on sessions where attendees apply them to their real problems and opportunities.
Original templates, tools, playbooks, and guides that help implement the concepts and practices detailed on this site.
Real-world results with quantified outcomes showing how we've applied knowledge to organizational and team opportunities.
Referenced works — books, papers, articles, and talks that inform our POV.