Member story · Cohort 06 · April 2026

A decade in Gulf fintech. Now sees how AI products work under the hood

Fintech and digital banking products across Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, from a business-analysis start to product at Keyper.

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In Layth’s own words

What Layth wrote about the course after Cohort 06. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Layth? I’ll intro you.

Layth IsmailCohort 06 · April 2026
Layth on the course

The course genuinely helped me understand how AI products work under the hood, how the different techniques are implemented, and how companies actually use them.

That gave me a far better mental model than experimenting with ChatGPT or watching videos ever could.

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What changed for Layth

Sees how AI products work under the hood.

How the techniques are implemented, and used.

A better mental model than videos ever gave.

Layth learned alongside PMs from
Quest American Express Publicis
Morgan Stanley Google PhonePe
Salesforce Oracle NVIDIA
Barclays Airbnb JPMorgan Chase
Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Amazon
Cisco Palo Alto Networks Myntra
Intuit Tesco Technology Verizon
Indeed Caterpillar Unilever
Motorola Solutions Zoho Trellix
U.S. Bank Lowe's India EY
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The path

Analysis, banking, product, and now AI

  1. 2019

    Business Analyst

    Tata Consultancy Services, Riyadh

  2. 2022

    Product Owner, Reflect: Jordan’s first neobank

    Arab Bank

  3. 2023

    Business Analysis Consultant

    EJADA, for Al Rajhi Bank

  4. 2024

    Senior Business Analyst

    EJADA Jordan

  5. 2025

    Product Manager

    Keyper

  6. Apr 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 06, April 2026

The work

What Layth built, and writes

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01 / 03

Modular AI chatbot platform

A series of chatbots, each a step further: from a basic prototype to one with memory, tools and a database behind it.

OpenAI Streamlit Python
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What it teaches a PM

What makes a chatbot useful is memory and tools, not the model alone.

02 / 03

Podcast search with RAG

Turns podcast episodes into vector embeddings, so you can ask a question and get the answer from what was actually said.

RAG Pinecone Streamlit
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What it teaches a PM

How retrieval keeps an answer grounded in real content.

03 / 03

Workspace agent over MCP

Connects Jira, Slack and Notion, so one plain-English request runs a workflow across all three.

MCP OpenAI AI Agents
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What it teaches a PM

How MCP lets one agent work inside the tools a team already uses.

What Layth writes
layth.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Shipping fintech in regulated markets

What Jordan, Saudi and the UAE taught him.
layth.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Launching Jordan’s first neobank

Lessons from a 0-to-1 digital bank.
layth.curious.pm4 min read ↗

From business analysis to product

Why writing it down is a superpower.
Around Layth

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Member stories

34 PMs, in their own words

Layth Ismail Varun Ravula Varun Ravula Chabi Anand Chabi Anand Piramanayagam T D Piramanayagam T D Sameer Deshpande Sameer Deshpande Sachin Kumar Sachin Kumar Balaguru Sakthivel Balaguru Sakthivel Lokesh Radhakrishna Lokesh Radhakrishna Disha Somra Disha Somra Ullas D.P Ullas D.P Raunak Pandey Raunak Pandey Ranjith Kurukkath Ranjith Kurukkath Vinit Gujarathi Vinit Gujarathi Pradeep Reddy Pradeep Reddy Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Lokesh Leel Lokesh Leel

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