Why Punk Records Exists
The traditional Product Manager is a bottleneck.
For the last decade, the job has been about writing a massive document, handing it over a wall to an engineering team, and waiting weeks to see if the logic holds up. We were translation layers.
AI agents have broken that model. The translation layer is no longer needed. What is needed is a core logic engine.
Welcome to Punk Records.
This site is my open-source database. I am exploring what happens when a Product Manager stops just writing tickets and starts acting as the central node — the "Stella" — directing a network of autonomous AI satellites to build, test, and ship complex software.
The Stella & Satellite Methodology
The Stella doesn't code. The Stella thinks.
It architects the logic, maps the risks, and writes the blueprint so airtight that any satellite — human or AI — can execute it flawlessly. Once the logic is locked, the Satellites deploy: each one a specialist, each one accountable for its own output.
The result: one PM, shipping at the speed of an entire squad.
| Satellite | Speciality | In practice |
|---|---|---|
| Stella (me) | The decision-maker | Product thinking, system design, risk analysis, writing the spec |
| Shaka | System architecture | Technical strategy, stack decisions, V1 scope — flags dead-ends before we build them |
| Oda | UI & user flows | Component structure, responsive layouts, accessibility — outputs specs, not sketches |
| Edison | Writing the code | Cursor / Claude Code — production code, database schemas, CLI commands |
| Lilith | Security & testing | Red: threat modeling and vulnerabilities — Blue: QA, test coverage, edge cases |
| Pythagoras | Research & documentation | Explore: market research and API teardowns — Document: product specs and schemas |
| Atlas | Deployment & infrastructure | Vercel, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, environment setup — flags downtime risks |
| York | Monitoring & maintenance | Uptime, error tracking, analytics — prioritized by what will break users first |
| Morgans | Writing & communication | Satellite Logs, READMEs, changelogs — first person, honest, no buzzwords |
Why Do This Publicly?
Engineers share their code on GitHub. Researchers publish their findings. I want to open-source the thinking that goes into building software products.
Not generic advice about product management. Not high-level frameworks. The actual process — the exact instructions I give the AI, the decisions I make at each step, the moments where everything breaks and I have to figure out why.
If you're a product manager wondering whether this way of working is real, or a product builder curious about what this actually looks like day to day — this is the answer. Read the Satellite Logs. Everything is in there.
What's Being Built
Every project ships publicly. Every decision gets documented. Every failure gets recorded. The list grows with each deployment.
The era of the purely theoretical PM is over.
Deploying v2.0.
— Aditya, Dubai 2026