A peer-led meetup for the people doing the actual product work.
Product Therapy is small on purpose. Eight people in a back room, two hours, real problems, no slides. It started in Montréal in 2023 and has, somewhat to our surprise, kept going — and spreading.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. It started small — a handful of product people in a Montréal back room, comparing notes on the messy, unglamorous parts of the job. No agenda, no slides, no networking script. Just the actual work.
Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Word travelled, mostly the slow way, from one PM to another. Other cities asked if they could borrow the format. We said yes, on the condition that the rooms stayed small and the conversations stayed off the record.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation. We're trying to keep being useful without becoming a thing. Volunteer-run, peer-led, deliberately unscaled — a meetup that exists because the people in it find it worth their evening, and nothing more.
Four things we keep coming back to.
Small beats scale.
The room only works at eight. We could fit forty; we'd ruin it. Every decision we make about the program asks the same question: does this protect the size of the room, or erode it?
Specifics over frameworks.
The most useful conversations are about the actual pricing call, the actual stakeholder, the actual roadmap. Generic advice — even good generic advice — is what panels are for. We're not panels.
Off the record, on purpose.
Nothing leaves the room with a name attached. We say it out loud at the start of every session. It changes what people are willing to bring, and that's the whole point.
A handful of PMs, in their off hours.
Each chapter is run by 1–3 organizers. Below, the founding crew.