Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

Architect, then automation. Learning that felt genuinely human

Product Owner at Jacobs in Gurugram, after three years in computational design there building in-house automation tools for architecture, engineering and construction, much of it for bridges, and coordinating citizen development across Asia. An architect by training, with a master’s from the Architectural Association in London.

Medha’s portfolio

Medha Bansal Product Owner at Jacobs

Medha’s feedback

In Medha’s own words

What Medha wrote about the course after Cohort 08. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Medha? I’ll intro you.

Medha BansalCohort 08 · August 2026

Medha on the course

I did the 8 weekends with Curious PM, and I can confidently say it has been one of the most meaningful learning experiences I’ve had.

I’m someone who is always eager to learn and stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in digitalisation and automation. This curiosity has taken me through several workshops and courses, from a few days to several months. More often than not, I would come away wanting more, sometimes even questioning whether I would be confident enough to independently apply what I’d learned to my work.

Curious PM felt different. It was perhaps the first learning experience that felt genuinely human. Complex topics were broken down and made accessible, conversations were open and free of unnecessary jargon, and there was always room to ask questions, explore ideas and learn from one another.

Most importantly, the 1:1 sessions and hands-on exercises helped bridge the gap between understanding a concept and actually feeling confident about applying it in practice. That made all the difference.

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What changed for Medha

Learning that felt genuinely human.

Complex topics, made accessible.

1:1s and hands-on: confident to apply it.

Medha learned alongside PMs from

The path

Architecture practice, then computational design

2020
Founder
Studio Code X
2021
Product Analyst, Computational Design
Ramboll
2022
Engineer, Computational Design
Jacobs
2025
Senior Engineer, Computational Design
Jacobs
2026
Product Owner
Jacobs
Aug 2026
Curious PM
Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Medha built, and writes

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Database-connected AI chatbot with evals

A chatbot built in five stages, from a plain OpenAI call to one with conversation memory, tools and a live database behind it, then every answer traced in Langfuse and scored by AI judges.

OpenAI Streamlit PostgreSQL Langfuse

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What it teaches a PM

Memory was the smallest change with the largest effect; evals made the answers measurable.

02 / 04

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.

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Podcast RAG and fine-tuning

Question answering over 149 podcast transcripts, whole episodes and 900-character chunks side by side, then a small open model fine-tuned with LoRA to speak in a chosen persona.

RAG Pinecone Claude Fine-Tuning

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What it teaches a PM

Retrieval for facts the model has never seen, fine-tuning for how it speaks.

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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 Medha writes

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Automation Tools Start With the Engineer, Not the Script

Building in-house tools with a Design Automation team: the scripting is what people notice, but whether a tool gets used is decided much earlier.

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What Citizen Development Asks of a Large Firm

Coordinating citizen development across Asia at Jacobs: people outside a central software team building their own tools takes more than access to a platform.

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Designing With the Desert, Not Against It

Material and design systems for climate-resilient construction in regions prone to desertification, from a final year at the Architectural Association.

Around Medha