How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier

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Today’s episode

I wrote a PRD using ChatGPT, with a considerable number of iterations, and gave it to the CEO of Zapier to grade.

In 2024, that PRD would have killed in any product review.

But Wade Foster called it a little old-fashioned.

In 2026, the work that made you look smart in 2024 is now the bare minimum. Shopify, Meta, and Microsoft have all tied AI to employee evaluations.

Zapier took it a notch higher and published a whole rubric on AI fluency. Then reintroduced another one just 10 months later!

Read the complete update here.

Wade co-founded Zapier and took it to a $5B valuation on roughly $1.4M of venture money. His rubric is the one a lot of companies have modeled their own on.

So I got him to share his grading structure live. If you want to know where you’d be when your company starts grading, I got you.