Product Inflection

Organization setup

Set up Product Inflection.

Build the foundation, configure the Advisory Team, and connect strategy to executable product work in days, not weeks or months.

Phase 01 · Steps 1–7

Foundation

Configure the organization, people, AI providers, integrations, and products.

Settings → My Profile

Complete your profile

Enter your time zone and make any needed changes to your default experience.

Settings → Organization

Configure your organization

Enter your company URL and local currency.

Settings → Workspace Security

Set workspace security

Review and configure the security settings for your workspace.

Settings → Manage Users

Add your initial product team

Add the product team members who will help enter information about your products, market, competitors, and related context.

Role guidance: CEO, CPO, VP of Product, and Product Operations have broad capabilities that other roles do not. Product Operations is the system’s super-user role.

Settings → Manage AI

Connect your AI providers

Select either OpenAI and Google Gemini—the recommended default—or Google Gemini only.

5a

Create an OpenAI API key. In another tab, visit the OpenAI API Keys page, create a key, and enter it in the OpenAI key field. Skip this step if you will use only Google Gemini.

Open OpenAI API Keys
5b

Create a Gemini API key. In another tab, follow Google’s Gemini API key instructions, create a key, and enter it in the Gemini API key field.

Open Gemini API key guide
5c

Confirm role access. Choose which roles may use AI. To keep token costs low, stakeholders should remain unable to use AI unless your organization requires it.

Protect your credentials. Enter API keys only in Product Inflection’s Manage AI settings. Do not share them in email, chat, or documentation.

Settings → Integrations

Connect your product systems

Connect Atlassian Rovo MCP. If your organization uses Google Drive for product artifacts and data, you may also connect it so users can load and download files through Drive rather than only from their local machines.

SharePoint is not supported. If you use Zoho Desk, connect Zoho Desk MCP. For other CRM and support systems, export reports and upload them as CSV files.

Settings → Products

Add your products

Enter information about the products your organization will manage in Product Inflection.

Foundation complete

Complete the Advisory Team setup before configuring the remaining product workflow.

Phase 02 · Steps 8–10

Advisory Team setup

Give the AI partners the context they need to support product decisions.

Market Intelligence

Build the market foundation

Enter information and artifacts in each section. The progress indicator at the top of the page shows your setup status.

Have the person responsible for strategy, competitive intelligence, battle cards, or related work complete this step.

Advisory Team → Discovery Partner

Set up the Discovery Partner

Have the person responsible for customer interviews, feedback, and discovery research complete this setup.

Advisory Team → Customer Experience Partner

Set up the Customer Experience Partner

Have someone who works closely with Jira tickets and customer-experience issues complete this setup.

Phase 03 · Steps 11–16

Enable work to be generated and managed

Connect strategy, product work, stakeholder demand, and engineering capacity.

Business Objectives

Create strategic themes, objectives, and key results

Create your strategic themes and objectives. You may create key results during meetings with product leads, but key results are required.

A PRD can be created from each key result, establishing a direct strategic link to work that may be considered and executed.

Settings → Manage Users

Add the remainder of the product team

Assign each person the appropriate role, then have the team begin creating PRDs from understood priorities and the roadmap.

PRDs can generate Jira stories and epics as well as roadmap items. They are the source of truth for planned work and work in progress.

Settings → Manage Stakeholder Groups

Create stakeholder groups

Add the non-product teams that will create and rank opportunities based on customer, pipeline, or infrastructure needs. Examples include Support, Revenue, Customer Success, regional teams, and Technical Services.

Settings → Manage Users

Add stakeholders and send invitations

Add your stakeholders, assign the Stakeholder role, and select the appropriate stakeholder group for each person.

Send the invitations and ask users to begin creating requests in Ideas Creation and ranking their team’s top 10 in Stakeholder Ranking.

Settings → Engineering Teams

Create engineering teams

Enter the names of your software engineering teams and add their members.

Settings → Pods

Create pods

Enter the names of your pods and add their members.