Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

B2B SaaS, from analytics up. Now building an AI product

B2B SaaS for fleet safety at Lytx, after years in analytics, consulting and customer success.

Lakshmi’s portfolio
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Lakshmi Prasanna Senior Product Manager at Lytx
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In Lakshmi’s own words

What Lakshmi wrote about the course after Cohort 05. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Lakshmi? I’ll intro you.

Lakshmi PrasannaCohort 05 · March 2026
Lakshmi on the course

An excellent introduction to LLMs, how they compare, and the fundamentals of AI product development, and it gave me the confidence to start building my own AI product.

Ankit is hands-on and patient with every topic, even with zero AI background going in.

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What changed for Lakshmi

Knows how LLMs compare.

Started her own AI product.

Came in with zero AI background.

Lakshmi learned alongside PMs from
Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5 Quest Publicis JPMorgan Chase Google Salesforce Oracle Barclays Airbnb Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Cisco Myntra Wadhwani Verizon Indeed Unilever Motorola Solutions Trellix Lowe's India EY F5
The path

Analytics, consulting, B2B SaaS, and now AI

  1. 2015

    Trainee Decision Scientist

    Mu Sigma

  2. 2020

    Consultant

    Capgemini

  3. 2022

    Customer Success Manager

    Clarisights

  4. 2023

    Junior Product Manager

    Checkmate

  5. 2025

    Senior Product Manager

    Lytx

  6. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Lakshmi built, and writes

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01 / 03

Autonomous job-search agent

An agent that searches job listings, reads each one and recommends the right roles, step by step on its own.

AI Agents OpenAI Python
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What it teaches a PM

When a task needs an agent, and when one prompt will do.

02 / 03

AI networking assistant

Finds people by what they do rather than by keywords, then starts the introduction with a voice call.

Voice AI Pinecone Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

How matching by meaning differs from ordinary search.

03 / 03

Voice assistant that remembers

A phone-based voice assistant that remembers earlier calls and picks up where the last one ended.

Twilio ElevenLabs Webhooks
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What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

What Lakshmi writes
lakshmi.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Customer success is the best product research you aren’t reading

What a year in customer success teaches a PM.
lakshmi.curious.pm5 min read ↗

The B2B roadmap that survives Q3

Building a roadmap that still holds by the third quarter.
lakshmi.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Lean Six Sigma made me a better PM

Even without the charts.
Around Lakshmi

Where Lakshmi works, who Lakshmi learned with

Where Lakshmi works
Lakshmi Prasanna

Senior Product Manager

Since 2025
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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

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Every PM from Cohort 05. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

19 members · 12 weeks
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Lakshmi built these. What would you build?

Eight weekends of building real AI products with a small group of PMs. You leave with a portfolio like Lakshmi’s.

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