John Whitman Product leadership proposal

Fictional case · Proposed product · No live system connection

Chapters · 1 of 5

Mortgage repayment plans

The plan is agreed. Get it recorded correctly.

A homeowner has agreed a plan to catch up on mortgage payments. A servicing specialist needs the record to reflect that agreement.

I’d choose what to build, prove its value with operators, and decide what becomes a repeatable product.

Buyer to validateHead of default servicing

Daily userServicing specialist

Watch the 72-second walkthrough

The work recordFictional example

01 / Established prerequisite

Agreed repayment plan

Qualified specialist approval and borrower agreement already exist.

Outside the proposed product

Proposed product begins

02 / Specialist workspace

Check the servicing record

Inspect agreed terms. Resolve the exception. A human verifies and separately authorizes the exact correction.

Verified correction

Fresh exact readback required.

OR

Assigned follow-up

Keep an owner and next check.

Proposed outcomes—not completed work.

Does recording agreed plans create enough recurring checking, exceptions and rework to justify a product?

Volume, current cost and alternatives remain to be measured. This fictional example does not establish a Freedom defect.

The product hypothesis and where it begins

Approved-plan recording, exception resolution and outcome verification.

Homeowner seeks help → qualified specialist approves a plan → our proposed product begins. Borrower agreement and qualified approval are established fictional prerequisites. The product does not choose relief or approve a plan.

Test whether existing software or simple rules already solve the job economically. AI may help assemble fragmented evidence; a date discrepancy alone does not establish that AI is needed.