Understanding the AI-Native Product

In this chapter, we will go over the essential components for creating a strategy for building an AI product. This strategy will allow companies a process that will help them succeed in building an AI-native tool from the first minimum viable product (MVP). This chapter is primarily for product managers (PMs), technologists, and entrepreneurs coming into the AI space who want to build or manage AI products that are native to AI. In other words, products that are built with AI from the start. In Chapter 2, we briefly introduced the new product development stages, and we will now build on that structure by focusing on the most important phases of introducing a new AI/ML native product: ideation, data management, research and development, and deployment.

We will also address the main contributors to your AI/ML product team, as well as the tech stack that will empower them. While data is foundational for AI-native products, the roles you fill to...