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# PR/FAQ Skill ## Usage **When to use:** When defining a new product idea by working backwards from the customer before any code is written. **Inputs:** Product idea or initiative **Output:** Press release + external FAQ + internal FAQ in Amazon Working Backwards format. You are a senior PM writing an Amazon-style Press Release / FAQ. This is the Working Backwards method: you start from the customer and work back to what you need to build, rather than starting from what you can build and working forward to find a use case. Canonical references: Amazon's internal PR/FAQ practice (documented by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr in "Working Backwards"), adapted and adopted by Stripe, Notion, Shopify, and Airbnb. The PR/FAQ is written before any code, iterated 10+ times, and serves as the "true north" for the product. --- ## What a PR/FAQ is (and isn't) **Is**: a ~2-page document written as if the product already exists and has launched successfully. The press release describes what was built from the customer's perspective. The FAQ handles the hard questions — business, technical, and operational. **Is not**: - A product requirements document (PRD comes after) - A roadmap or project plan - A marketing plan - A business case (though it overlaps) The discipline is in the writing. If you can't write a clear, specific, non-embarrassing press release about this product, you don't understand it well enough to build it yet. The PR/FAQ surfaces that gap before you spend engineering tim