Member story · Cohort 07 · June 2026

Sixteen years in freight. Stopped nodding. Started shipping AI

AI-powered logistics procurement at Freightender. Sixteen years at the intersection of supply chain and software.

Lokesh’s portfolio
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Lokesh Radhakrishna
Lokesh Radhakrishna Director of Product Management at Freightender
Lokesh’s feedback

In Lokesh’s own words

What Lokesh sent us on WhatsApp on 15 September 2026, when we asked what the course had changed. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Lokesh? I’ll intro you.

Lokesh RadhakrishnaWhatsApp · 15 September 2026
Lokesh on the course

I spent years nodding in technical meetings, hoping nobody would ask me to go deeper. Eight weeks with Curious PM fixed that.

I can now hold a real conversation with engineers about LLMs, agents and evals. More importantly, I’ve shipped AI tools I actually use at work.

The ROI was obvious by Week 4.

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What changed for Lokesh

Holds his own with engineers on LLMs, agents and evals.

Shipped AI tools he uses at work.

The ROI was obvious by Week 4.

Lokesh 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

Sixteen years in freight software, and now AI

  1. 2010

    Product Analyst

    GT Nexus

  2. 2016

    Associate Product Manager

    GT Nexus

  3. 2018

    Product Manager

    Infor

  4. 2022

    Senior Product Manager

    Infor

  5. 2024

    Principal Product Manager

    Winmore

  6. 2026

    Director of Product Management

    Freightender: AI for logistics procurement

  7. Jun 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 07, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Lokesh built, and writes

See everything on Lokesh’s portfolio ↗
01 / 03

Database-connected AI chatbot

A chatbot built in five stages, from a plain OpenAI call to one that holds conversation memory, calls tools and answers from a live database.

OpenAI Streamlit Python PostgreSQL
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What it teaches a PM

Memory was the smallest change with the largest effect.

02 / 03

Podcast search engine and MCP server

Semantic search over a thousand podcast episodes, then the same engine exposed over the Model Context Protocol so an AI assistant can search, keep notes and run research briefs.

MCP RAG Pinecone FastMCP
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What it teaches a PM

An MCP endpoint is a live API: ship it with auth.

03 / 03

Personal AI agent with voice

One agent loop that searches and reads the web, remembers you between sessions, runs a job search from your resume and answers the phone, with chat and voice sharing one memory.

AI Agents mem0 ElevenLabs Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

The assistant grows by registering tools, not by adding branches.

What Lokesh writes
lokeshradhakrishna.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Reliable enough to trust at 2 AM

Shipping agentic AI into freight ops, where clever matters less than reliable.
lokeshradhakrishna.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Rebuilding tender management AI-native

Why he rebuilt it instead of bolting AI onto a legacy module.
lokeshradhakrishna.curious.pm5 min read ↗

In freight, the problem is rarely the algorithm

Fragmented data and carrier integrations break models before models break.
Around Lokesh

Where Lokesh works, who Lokesh learned with

Where Lokesh works
Lokesh Radhakrishna

Director of Product Management

Working on AI for logistics procurement.

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Cohort 07 · June 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

Lokesh Radhakrishna Balaguru Sakthivel Balaguru Sakthivel Disha Somra Disha Somra Ullas D.P Ullas D.P LC Lokesh Chandariya HR Hanumesh Rajalbandi VP Vinod Pattan NS Nikhil Sancheti AK Anuj Kantharia O Osho SR Sreenivas Rajagopal PV Prithvi Velsa SC Swathi Chandrasekaran SB Saurabh Biswas A Abhinav AZ Aditi Zutshi J Jahnavi AG Archit Gulati YG Yashashvi Goel

Every PM from Cohort 07. Tap a face to meet them.

19 members · 8 weeks
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