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Product Marketing Cohort · 2026

4 weeks. Make the market understand what you built.

Great products lose to worse products with clearer stories. Product marketing is the discipline that closes that gap — positioning, messaging, pricing, launch and enablement. This is that discipline, taught the way it is actually practised at companies that get it right, with AI doing the research grunt work.

4 Weeks
Live cohort
12 Modules
Built on your own product
20 Max
Per cohort
6 Artefacts
You leave with all of them
1

positioning statement that survives a hostile question. Most teams have never written one down — which is why their website, their deck and their sales calls all say different things.

12

modules covering the full product marketing remit: research, segmentation, positioning, messaging, pricing, launch, enablement, adoption and measurement.

6

finished artefacts built on your own product, not a case study. A positioning statement, message house, pricing proposal, launch plan, enablement kit and scorecard.

Stop explaining your product.
Start being understood.

Product marketing is not "the team that makes the launch deck". It is the function that decides who the product is for, why they should care, what it costs, and how everyone else in the company talks about it. Done well, it is the highest-leverage seat in a company. Done badly — or not at all — every other function guesses.

You will leave with the frameworks the discipline actually runs on — Jobs to Be Done for research, a structured positioning process, a message house, value-metric pricing, tiered launches, and a scorecard that ties all of it to revenue. Applied to your product, in the room, with feedback.

For the person who has to make the market care.

Whether that is your job title or simply the job that landed on you.

Right For You If this is your problem

  • You are a product marketer, or have just inherited the remit without the title
  • You are a founder whose product is good and whose pitch is not landing
  • You are in marketing and keep being handed features to "make sound exciting"
  • You are in product and your launches land with a thud
  • Your sales team explains the product a different way on every call
  • You are moving from generalist marketing into a specialist PMM role

Not A Fit If this sounds like you

  • You want social media content tactics — this is upstream of that
  • You want a certificate without doing the customer research
  • You have no product, or no access to anyone who buys it
  • You expect AI to write your positioning for you
  • You want theory you can nod along to and never apply

Six artefacts. Built on your product.

Each one is a standard deliverable of the product marketing function — the same artefacts a PMM would be asked for in their first ninety days anywhere in the world.

01
A Positioning Statement

Built through a structured process — competitive alternatives, unique attributes, the value only you deliver, who cares most, and the market category you want to be judged in. Pressure-tested by the room.

02
A Message House

One core narrative, three supporting pillars, and the proof under each. Versioned per persona, so product, sales, and marketing finally say the same thing in their own words.

03
A Pricing & Packaging Proposal

A defensible value metric, tier structure, and the willingness-to-pay evidence behind it. Written to be argued with by a CFO, not admired by a marketer.

04
A Tiered Launch Plan

Launch tiering, a cross-functional timeline, readiness criteria, channel plan and the internal comms that stop a launch collapsing on the day. Ready to run.

05
A Sales Enablement Kit

Battlecard, one-pager, demo narrative and objection handling — the assets a revenue team actually opens, written from real win/loss input rather than wishful thinking.

06
A PMM Scorecard

The measures that prove the function is working — adoption, attach rate, win rate, sales cycle, influenced pipeline — and an executive readout that makes the case in one page.

AI does the volume.
You do the judgement.

This is a product marketing programme, not a prompting course. AI earns its place here by collapsing the parts of the job that used to take weeks — and it is genuinely bad at the parts that matter most.

Where it genuinely helps: synthesising fifty customer interviews into themes, mining review sites and support tickets at scale, drafting twenty messaging variants to react against, competitive teardowns, and turning a positioning doc into eleven different asset formats without losing the thread.

Where it does not: deciding which segment to abandon, hearing the thing a customer did not quite say, judging whether a claim is honest, and holding a position when a loud stakeholder wants to widen it. Those stay yours. We will be explicit each week about which is which.

4 weeks. 12 modules.
The full PMM remit.

Every session ends in an artefact for your own product. By the final week those artefacts assemble into a complete product marketing system.

Market Truth

Theme: you cannot position from a conference room. Week 1 is about getting real evidence out of real buyers, fast — and deciding honestly who you are for.

W1 / Session A
The Product Marketing Charter
What the function owns, and what it must refuse
  • Where PMM sits between product, sales and marketing — and why it fails when undefined
  • The remit: research, positioning, messaging, pricing input, launch, enablement, adoption
  • Operating models: dedicated, embedded, and the one-person version
  • Writing a charter your stakeholders will actually agree to
Capstone

A one-page PMM charter for your company: what you own, what you influence, what you decline, and how success is judged.

W1 / Session B
Customer Research That Isn't Theatre
Jobs to Be Done, win/loss, and mining what already exists
  • Jobs to Be Done interviews: the switch moment, forces, and what to never ask
  • Win/loss programmes — running them without flattering yourself
  • Mining reviews, support tickets, sales calls and churn notes at scale with AI
  • Separating what buyers say from what buyers do
Capstone

A research plan plus a synthesised themes document from evidence you already have sitting unread.

W1 / Session C
ICP & Segmentation
Choosing who to be wrong for
  • Firmographic, behavioural and needs-based segmentation — when each is the right lens
  • Building an ICP with disqualifying criteria, not just flattering ones
  • TAM / SAM / SOM sized honestly, and how to spot a fantasy number
  • Persona documents that a salesperson would actually use
Turning this into queryable attributes, scoring and market sizing is Go-To-Market, Week 1. This session produces the understanding that one operates on.
Capstone

Your ICP definition and two priority personas, each with the jobs, forces and objections attached.

Positioning & Messaging

Theme: the hardest week. Positioning is a decision, not a paragraph — and every good one makes somebody in the room uncomfortable.

W2 / Session A
Positioning, Properly
A structured process, run live on your product
  • Competitive alternatives — including "a spreadsheet" and "doing nothing"
  • Unique attributes, and the value that only those attributes make possible
  • Who cares a lot: the segment for whom that value is urgent
  • Market category — entering an existing one versus the cost of creating one
Capstone

A positioning statement, drafted and then defended against the room's hardest questions.

W2 / Session B
The Message House
One narrative, many mouths
  • Core narrative, three pillars, and the proof required beneath each
  • Claims you can substantiate versus claims that quietly become a liability
  • Versioning by persona and by funnel stage without fragmenting the story
  • Using AI to generate variants — and judging them against the house, not vibes
Capstone

A complete message house with proof points, plus persona variants for your two priority personas.

W2 / Session C
Competitive & Category Narrative
Where you win, where you lose, and saying so
  • Competitive teardowns that go past a feature grid
  • Battlecards built from win/loss evidence, including honest losses
  • Category narrative: the shift in the world that makes you inevitable
  • Competing against the incumbent, the cheap alternative, and inertia
Capstone

A battlecard for your primary competitor and a one-paragraph category narrative.

Pricing & Launch

Theme: the two places product marketing most often gets overruled — and how to arrive with evidence strong enough that it does not happen.

W3 / Session A
Pricing & Packaging
Finding the value metric
  • Choosing a value metric that scales with the value the customer receives
  • Tiering, feature gating, and what belongs in the free tier if there is one
  • Willingness-to-pay research: what to ask, and why stated price is unreliable
  • Discounting discipline, and the long cost of a bad first price
Capstone

A pricing and packaging proposal with the value metric named and the evidence attached.

W3 / Session B
Launch Planning
Tiering, readiness, and not shipping into silence
  • Launch tiers — matching effort to actual impact instead of treating everything as a moment
  • The cross-functional launch plan: owners, dates, dependencies, readiness gates
  • Internal launch before external — the step most teams skip and regret
  • Post-launch review, and what to do when a launch underperforms
Capstone

A tiered launch plan for your next release, with readiness criteria and named owners.

W3 / Session C
Channels That Carry The Message
Getting the story to the people who need it
  • Choosing channels from where your ICP already is, not from what is fashionable
  • Website, product pages and pricing pages as PMM surfaces
  • Content that supports a buying decision rather than filling a calendar
  • Working with analysts, communities and partners in your market
Capstone

A channel plan tied to your launch, with the message variant each channel carries.

Enablement & Proof

Theme: positioning that lives only in a document is worth nothing. Week 4 puts it into the mouths of the revenue team and onto a scorecard.

W4 / Session A
Sales Enablement
Assets a revenue team opens twice
  • The enablement kit: battlecard, one-pager, demo narrative, objection handling
  • Fitting the kit to whatever qualification standard the team already runs
  • Running an enablement session that changes behaviour rather than filling an hour
  • Feedback loops: getting the field's objections back into the messaging
Designing the sales motion itself — stage definitions, qualification frameworks and forecast hygiene — is Go-To-Market, Week 3. Here we equip whatever motion you already have.
Capstone

Your enablement kit, reviewed by the room as if they were the sceptical sales rep.

W4 / Session B
Adoption & Lifecycle
The half of PMM that happens after the sale
  • Onboarding and time-to-first-value as a marketing problem
  • Driving feature adoption and attach rate for what you launched
  • Expansion, upsell narratives, and churn as a messaging signal
  • Customer evidence: turning outcomes into references and case studies
Capstone

A lifecycle plan for one feature: adoption target, the message at each stage, and the trigger for each.

W4 / Session C
Measurement & The Executive Case
Proving the function pays for itself
  • PMM measures that hold up: adoption, attach rate, win rate, cycle length, influenced pipeline
  • What not to claim — attribution honesty and the credibility it buys you
  • The executive readout: one page, defensible, no vanity
  • Capstone presentation and structured critique from the cohort
Capstone

Your complete PMM system presented in ten minutes — positioning through to scorecard.

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

One cohort, four weeks, and a complete product marketing system built on your own product.

What's included

Live instruction from people who have carried the number, plus the templates and review time that make the artefacts real.

  • 4 live weekly sessions with practitionersPeople who have actually shipped launches and defended pricing, not lecturers reading a syllabus.
  • Every template in the programmeCharter, research plan, positioning canvas, message house, pricing proposal, launch plan, battlecard, scorecard.
  • Artefact reviewStructured critique on your positioning and messaging from the trainer and your peers — the part that makes it stick.
  • All session recordingsYours permanently, so you can revisit a framework the week you actually need it.
  • Community accessCohort channel and alumni network — useful long after week 4, when the real stakeholder fight happens.
  • Certificate of completionCocoon Product Marketing. Issued on completed artefacts, not attendance.

What this is not

A social media or content marketing course — this sits upstream of both
A prompting course wearing a product marketing hat
Theory with a case study about a company you will never work at
A promise that AI will write your positioning — it cannot, and we will show you why
An accredited qualification — it is a practitioner programme, and we say so plainly
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Taught by practitioners.
Not theorists.

"Every framework in this programme is one we have used under pressure — with a launch date fixed, a sales team unconvinced, and a pricing decision that had to be defended to a board. That is the only reason to teach it."
— Cocoon Trainers
Cocoon Product Marketing · 2026

The best product does not win.
The best understood one does.

Four weeks to positioning, messaging, pricing, launch and enablement you can defend — built on your product, not a case study.

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