Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

Derivatives, risk and regulation. Learned AI hands-on

Product for derivatives and regulatory workflows, after three years as an analyst there.

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Lokesh Leel
Lokesh Leel Product Associate at Morgan Stanley
Lokesh’s feedback

In Lokesh’s own words

What Lokesh wrote about the course after Cohort 01. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Lokesh? I’ll intro you.

Lokesh LeelCohort 01 · August 2025
Lokesh on the course

Great for Product people to learn AI with hands-on experience.

I am amazed by the efforts put into in-class projects. The sessions are interactive which enhanced my learning.

I’ve discussed tangent ideas in 1-1 connects with Ankit. He is helpful and honest!

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What changed for Lokesh

Learned AI hands-on.

Built real in-class projects.

Talked ideas through in 1-1s with Ankit.

Lokesh 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

Risk, regulation, product, and now AI

  1. 2022

    Analyst

    Morgan Stanley: operations risk and regulatory control

  2. 2025

    Product Associate

    Morgan Stanley: derivatives and regulation

  3. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, with 17 other PMs

The work

What Lokesh built, and writes

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01 / 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.

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

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 Lokesh writes
lokesh.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Data literacy for PMs: beyond the dashboard

Knowing which data tool to reach for, and when.
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Product management in derivatives: where complexity meets clarity

Translating between what traders need and what operations can run.
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Why automation in financial services isn’t about replacing people

The best automation removes friction, not roles.
Around Lokesh

Where Lokesh works, who Lokesh learned with

Where Lokesh works
Lokesh Leel

Product Associate

Working on derivatives and regulation.

Since 2022 · 2 roles here
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Cohort 01 · August 2025

Eighteen PMs, the first cohort

Lokesh Leel Vinit Gujarathi Vinit Gujarathi Karine Majdalani Karine Majdalani Pradeep Reddy Pradeep Reddy Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Ranjith Kurukkath Ranjith Kurukkath Raunak Pandey Raunak Pandey Shreya Doreswamy Shreya Doreswamy Sambit Kumar Das Sambit Kumar Das Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Srinath Srinath Almas Ali Almas Ali Shyam Saha Shyam Saha Tanmayee Ambekar Tanmayee Ambekar Kancherla Guru Prasad Kancherla Guru Prasad Karthik R Iyer Karthik R Iyer TP Test participant A Ajinkya

Every PM from Cohort 01. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

18 members · 12 weeks
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Lokesh 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 Lokesh’s.

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