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Issue No. 028 · Monday, 26 October 2026

Agents Take Over The Handoffs

Product planning canvas

Miro for Product Acceleration

Miro's new product suite puts AI agents on the canvas to turn research, sticky notes and sessions into briefs, specs and prioritised backlogs.

Why it matters for PMsIt changes the week after a discovery workshop: synthesis and the first draft of the brief come out of the board instead of your calendar.

miro.com→
Support triage agent

Plain Ari

Ari is Plain's customer-facing AI agent that answers and resolves B2B support threads in Slack, email, Teams and in-app chat.

Why it matters for PMsIt thins the shared Slack-channel escalation queue PMs get pulled into, so you see themed bug patterns instead of one-off pings.

plain.com→
Autonomous QA testing

Ranger

Ranger's agents write, run and maintain Playwright tests against your web app, and now re-test fixes produced by coding agents.

Why it matters for PMsIt removes the manual regression pass before release, which is usually the step that pushes your ship date out by a day or two.

ranger.net→
Spec-driven development

Kiro

Kiro is AWS's agentic IDE and web agent that turns a written spec into requirements, design and tracked implementation tasks.

Why it matters for PMsYour spec becomes the executable artefact engineers work from, so scope drift between PRD and pull request is visible rather than discovered at demo.

kiro.dev→
Warehouse-native analytics

Kubit

Kubit runs product analytics and agent-observability queries directly in Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks without copying event data out.

Why it matters for PMsIf you ship AI features, it lets you analyse agent runs and user journeys on the same governed warehouse data your finance numbers come from.

kubit.ai→
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