PRD — SaaS Product Manager

Overview

Draft and validate Product Requirements Documents for SaaS products: subscription models, multi-tenant, trials, usage-based pricing, onboarding, and retention.

Example Conversation

You: I need a PRD for our new subscription and trial flow. We’re moving to usage-based billing and want to document onboarding and retention.

Agent: I’ll use the SaaS PRD skill. I’ll clarify scope, load the best-practices and sections checklist, then draft from the template. First: who’s the primary audience (SMB, enterprise)? What does “activated” mean for your product?

You: SMB and prosumer. Activated = first successful run of our core workflow.

Agent: I’ve created prd-subscription-trial.md from the template and filled Overview, Goals, User personas, Subscription/usage model, Key features, Onboarding & retention, and Success metrics. Running validate_prd_structure…

Agent: NEEDS_REVISION — two placeholders remain: [Primary goal] and [North Star / primary]. I’ve updated those sections with your earlier context. Re-running validation… PASS. The PRD has all required sections and no placeholders.

What the Tools Validate

validate_prd_structure checks the PRD document for:

Required sections — Overview, Goals, User personas, Subscription/usage model, Key features, Success metrics, Non-functional requirements. Missing sections are reported as errors.
Placeholders — Flags [TODO], [TBD], [Insert], or bracketed placeholders (e.g. [Product name]) so you can replace them before finalising.

Output: PASS when there are no errors and no unfilled placeholders; NEEDS_REVISION when only warnings (e.g. placeholders); FAIL when required sections are missing. Fix flagged items and re-run until the check passes.

Output Excerpt

SaaS PRD (excerpt):

## Goals

- Align pricing and packaging with usage-based billing and a 14-day trial.
- Success looks like: 40% trial-to-paid conversion, &lt; 7 days to activation.

## User personas

| Persona   | Role     | Jobs-to-be-done           | Success criteria   |
|-----------|----------|----------------------------|--------------------|
| Prosumer  | End user | Run core workflow daily    | First run in &lt; 7 days |
| Admin     | Buyer    | Evaluate and add team      | Team onboarded     |

## Subscription / usage model

- **Pricing model:** Usage-based with monthly minimum; 14-day free trial.
- **Packaging:** Starter, Pro, Team. This feature ships in Pro and Team.
- **Billing cycle:** Monthly; annual discount 20%.

validate_prd_structure report (excerpt):

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PRD structure validation (SaaS)
File: prd-subscription-trial.md
Status: PASS
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No issues found. Document has required structure and no placeholders.
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Getting Started

Add your context (product goals, audience, pricing assumptions) to the project workspace, then activate the PRD — SaaS Product Manager skill. The agent will guide you through scope, drafting from the template, and validating with validate_prd_structure.