Nabla · AI product · Mid · 45 to 60 minutes

How should Nabla focus its notes product?

Nabla builds AI software for clinicians, including tools that help create clinical notes. Answer this product management case and get it graded line by line against a weighted rubric.

product strategy
prioritization
user insight
ai product judgment
metrics

The situation

You are the PM for Nabla's clinician documentation product area. The CEO and product lead want a recommendation before the next planning cycle. Nabla has built an AI product area around clinical notes and nearby clinician workflow needs, and customer conversations suggest there is interest, but usage is uneven and the roadmap has become broad. Some users seem to come back often, while other teams try the product and do not build it into daily work. Sales and customers keep asking for more capabilities, but engineering and design are now spread across several bets, which makes quality, speed, and messaging harder to improve. Leadership wants clearer evidence of product market fit soon, but narrowing the product could mean saying no to requests and potentially shrinking the addressable story in the short term. Assume the team can make one major product bet over the next two quarters. Your task is to recommend where Nabla should focus, what should be paused or deprioritized, and how the team should tell if the strategy is working.

What to produce

A 1 to 2 page product strategy memo.

Your answer must

Name the target user and the specific repeated workflow you think Nabla should optimize for first.
Diagnose the main problem behind uneven adoption, and separate product scope issues from AI quality, trust, and go to market issues.
Recommend a clear focus strategy for the next two quarters, including what to keep investing in and what to pause or cut.
Explain the main trade offs of your recommendation, including upside, downside, and who may be disappointed.
Define 3 success metrics and a simple validation plan that would show whether the strategy is moving Nabla toward product market fit.

Constraints

Use only the information in the prompt, and label any extra assumptions clearly.
Do not rely on new headcount, acquisitions, or a brand new product line.
Your plan must be realistic for one existing cross functional team over the next two quarters.

Format

Use short sections: diagnosis, recommendation, trade offs, metrics, validation plan.

How Nabla actually played it

Explains how an AI clinical notes company cut most of its product scope to focus on one use case, after which adoption rose and ARR multiplied several times in six months. It covers the choice to drop features and what the narrower product enabled.

Cutting scope can find product market fit faster
Focus on the use case users repeat daily
Inbound demand can follow a sharper product

Built from How Nabla dropped 80% of its product and found PMF by Timothe Frin.