Hands-On: Natural Language to Structured Specs in AI Dev :: AI Innovators Network × MxP Studio
What if your next product requirement wasn't a document at all - but a working minimum lovable product?
MxP Studio is partnering with AI Innovators Network for a hands-on session about the biggest shift in software development since the IDE - and the oldest discipline in customer-obsessed product thinking.
Three forces are reshaping how products get built:
Organizations demanding to move faster than ever
Customers demanding higher-fidelity experiences, not wireframes and mockups
Builders finally able to articulate the problem space in natural language - and get working software back
Vibe coding is the symptom. Spec-driven development is the discipline that makes it durable. And Amazon's Working Backwards method - start with the customer, define the durable need, resist building until you know what you're solving - is the philosophy that keeps it honest.
Join us to explore what happens when those three forces meet inside AWS Kiro, a new agentic IDE built around specs instead of chat.
The journey: We'll take a real product idea from a one-paragraph press release → structured requirements → architecture → working prototype, in real time, on screen, in the room. No slide theater. No sanitized demo. Just thinking in public, with software as the byproduct.
Featured Speaker: AJ Bubb Innovation Strategist, AWS veteran, and founder of MxP Studio. AJ has spent two decades at the intersection of emerging tech and enterprise strategy (Amazon, Accenture), and now helps teams innovate faster though product centric AI adoption. He's the host of the Facing Disruption podcast and a recognized voice on AI-enabled entrepreneurship and rapid prototyping.
What you'll take away:
A new mental model for how Working Backwards and AI-native development fit together
A resource pack with PR-FAQ templates, steering file starters, and EARS notation cheat sheets
Three starter spec prompts you can try on your own ideas this weekend
A concrete sense of what to build, what to stop building, and why the bottleneck was never code
Who this is for: Founders validating product ideas. Product leaders accelerating team delivery. Engineers curious about where spec-driven AI development is headed. Anyone who believes the hardest part of software was never the code - it was the translation.
Be sure to bring your laptop, and RSVP on Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/ai-innovators-network-tysons-meetup-dc-nova-md/events/313911900