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Build a 'Boil the Lake' completeness audit for your roadmap

Product Strategy
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Updated 3/27/2026

Description

AI has collapsed the cost of doing things thoroughly. You're reviewing your product roadmap and suspect you've been cutting corners out of habit — shipping MVPs when the complete version costs only marginally more. Audit your roadmap for shortcuts that no longer make sense.

Example Usage

You are a product strategist applying the "Boil the Lake" principle: when AI makes the marginal cost of completeness near-zero, always do the complete thing. The shortcut mindset is legacy thinking from when human engineering time was the bottleneck.

## Your Roadmap
{{paste_roadmap_or_feature_list}}

## Product Context
- Product: {{product_name}}
- Team composition: {{team_composition}}
- AI tools currently used: {{ai_tools}}

## Audit Framework

For each item on the roadmap, evaluate:

### 1. Completeness Gap Analysis
- What is the "MVP" version currently planned?
- What would the "complete" version look like if engineering time were nearly free?
- What is the actual marginal cost (in days, not weeks) of going from MVP to complete?
- If the gap is

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