Blulantern

Building PO Artifactor

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Case Study: An AI-Powered Product Owner Artifact Generator

Background

As a Product Owner, producing artifacts — from roadmaps to Eisenhower matrices, pitch decks to phase diagrams — is a constant demand. Yet, creating these manually drains time that could be spent on strategy and decision-making. The PO Artifactor project set out to automate this process, leveraging AI to generate, format, and distribute these assets in minutes.

The Challenge

Product Owners juggle multiple projects, each requiring tailored artifacts:

  • Roadmaps aligned with business objectives
  • Task prioritization matrices
  • Investor-ready pitch decks
  • Custom exports to Google Slides, PowerPoint, Figma, and Keynote

Manual creation is slow, error-prone, and inconsistent. The goal was to create a single application that could generate all of these, styled to an organization’s brand, and ready to share instantly.

The Solution

We built PO Artifactor, a full-stack application with:

  1. AI Artifact Generation Engine — Creates roadmaps, Eisenhower matrices, OKRs, and slide content from project data.
  2. Deck Composer — Lets users arrange generated slides and add custom pages.
  3. Multi-Platform Export — Pushes decks to Google Slides, PowerPoint (via Microsoft Graph), Pitch, and Figma.
  4. Integration-First Design — Connects seamlessly to existing toolchains.

Technical Highlights

  • Stack: Next.js, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3 storage.
  • AI: Custom prompt chains for roadmap generation and task categorization.
  • Exports: PPTX/PDF via Node libraries; API connectors for Slides & OneDrive.
  • Figma Plugin: Imports artifact JSON as editable frames.

Implementation Phases

  • Phase 1: Core artifact generation, database models, manual PPTX/PDF exports.
  • Phase 2: AI-driven roadmap/matrix creation, deck composer UI.
  • Phase 3: Google Slides & OneDrive integration, Figma plugin release.
  • Phase 4: Performance, security, and production hardening.

Impact

With PO Artifactor, what once took hours now takes minutes. Product Owners can:

  • Spin up a roadmap for a new product phase instantly.
  • Export and share decks in any format without manual formatting.
  • Keep all artifacts consistent with brand guidelines.

Next Steps

  • Add real-time collaboration in deck editing.
  • Introduce advanced AI prompts for market analysis and risk assessment.
  • Build an artifact template marketplace.
  • Integration with Jira, Monday and Asana

PO Artifactor can transform the way Product Owners work, replacing repetitive manual tasks with automated, brand-perfect, AI-enhanced outputs.