About Beyond the Backlog

Beyond the Backlog is an independent publication launched in August 2025 by Cam Dresie. If you subscribe today, you’ll get full access to the site and email newsletters whenever new pieces drop. Your subscription makes this project possible—and keeps Beyond the Backlog shipping thoughtful, useful work for product people everywhere. Thank you.

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By signing up, you’ll unlock the full archive—every essay, template, teardown, and playbook—plus everything still to come. Think of it as your private product library.

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What you’ll find here

• Essays on strategy, discovery, execution, and leadership.
• Playbooks & templates you can copy‑paste into your workflow.
• Teardowns of products, launches, and PM artifacts—what worked and why.
• AI-in-product guides from real-world experiments (prompts, patterns, pitfalls).
• Office hours posts answering reader questions and featuring community learnings.

Who’s behind this

Hi, I’m Cam—a product leader building AI‑powered tools at the intersection of law and software. I write about the real work of product management: aligning strategy, shaping teams, making tradeoffs, and shipping outcomes.

Why subscribe now

• Stay sharp with concise, practical posts.
• Save time with ready-to-use templates and checklists.
• Learn from experiments (wins and flops) so you don’t repeat them.
• Support independent writing focused on product craft over hype.

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