Kanishk on the Hudson waterfront at night, the Lower Manhattan skyline lit up behind him
ABOUT

Operating principles,
not biography.

01

Spot the friction.

The best products come from irritations nobody else considers fixable: an almanac that ignores timezones, a sink full of dishes, a gym that feels like other people's territory.

02

Envision at scale.

A fix that works once is a demo. The interesting question is what it looks like at 2M documents a year: accuracy budgets, exception paths, and who gets called when it breaks.

03

Translate between worlds.

The same idea has to land three ways: with the customer, the executive, and the model. The product manager who translates well is the one who ships.

04

Take action.

Every idea on this site exists as a running product, not a slide. The launch log is the resume.

HOW I SHIP

I'm a product manager, not an engineer: I ship by directing AI. For my own products, the toolbelt is the team.

01
Listen

Start with a person and their moment: customers, users, my own parents.

02
Define

Write the PRD like it will be read by both a CEO and a model. It will be.

03
Direct

AI builds under direction: the craft is knowing what to ask for and what to reject.

04
Verify

Evals, parity tests, on-device QA. Trust is measured, never assumed.

05
Launch

Stores, stakeholders, iteration. Shipping is the beginning, not the end.

EXPERIENCE

Nine years of product work: enterprise cloud at AWS, insurance at MetLife, edtech at scale, and now agentic AI at Itemize.

Itemize
2025–now · New York
AI Product Manager & Forward Deployed Engineer

Agentic AI orchestration platform for healthcare, banking, and finance: 2M+ documents a year at 98.51% accuracy in production, 95% of manual workflows automated, $1M+ ARR from the document AI product line.

MetLife
2024–25
AI Product Manager & Solutions Lead

Sales AI chatbot and analytics for internal sales enablement: response times down 45%, engagement up 30%.

Amazon Web Services
2022–24
Enterprise Cloud Solutions Engineer · Top Trusted Advisor

$50M+ Fortune 500 portfolio, 25 enterprise accounts including Netflix, Salesforce, and Snapchat: $72M in combined client savings from cost-optimization sessions I led, and 206% YoY revenue growth from retaining at-risk accounts and upselling AWS Enterprise Support.

WhiteHat Jr
2019–21
Lead Product Manager

Tablet learning platform launched through a $1M Lenovo partnership: 3.5M to 6.5M users in eight months, retention up 200%.

Eduauraa
2017–18
Product Manager & Business Analyst

Digital education platform from zero to MVP in five months: engagement up 35% through data-driven iteration.

THE AI TOOLBELT
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