Member story · Cohort 02 · September 2025

A decade in EdTech. AI at just the right depth

Close to a decade in EdTech, from BYJU’S to platform products at Academian.

N. Sambit Suman Platform Product Manager at Academian

Sambit’s feedback

In Sambit’s own words

What Sambit wrote about the course after Cohort 02. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Sambit? I’ll intro you.

N. Sambit SumanCohort 02 · September 2025

Sambit on the course

Three words describe this course – hands-on, clarity, and just about the right depth.

Hearing about AI from a product person is such fresh air in all the buzz.

The course isn’t like a typical textbook. It’s a stepping stone, arming you to do your own research with the knowledge gathered.

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What changed for Sambit

Learned AI hands-on, at the right depth.

Heard about AI from a product person.

Equipped to do the research next.

Sambit learned alongside PMs from

The path

Classrooms, EdTech, platforms, and now AI

2015
Product Manager
Avanti Learning Centres
2018
Operations Manager
Avanti Learning Centres
2019
Senior Manager, Product
BYJU’S
2024
Platform Product Manager
Academian: platforms for learning
Sep 2025
Curious PM
Cohort 02, with 12 other PMs

The work

What Sambit built, and writes

See everything on Sambit’s portfolio ↗

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

Open ↗

What it teaches a PM

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

02 / 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

Open ↗

What it teaches a PM

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

03 / 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

Open ↗

What it teaches a PM

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

What Sambit writes

sambit.curious.pm4 min read ↗

User research in EdTech: listening to learn

Understanding the tensions between parents, students and teachers.

sambit.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Platform thinking: beyond features to foundations

A platform succeeds when it multiplies every team that uses it.

sambit.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Building delightful experiences: my code to live by

Why delight is the standard worth building to.

Around Sambit

Where Sambit works, who Sambit learned with

Where Sambit works

Platform Product Manager

Working on platforms for learning.

Since 2024

Sambit

Cohort 02 · September 2025

Thirteen PMs, one cohort

Nandhini Sivakumar

Siddharth Chauhan

Shalabh Dongaonkar SE Srinivas Esarapu

Sai Vamsi Gampala JP James Powel Tuwatimi

Touseef Ur Rehman Alvi

Nitin Bharathy

Karthik Venkatraman

Narendran S

Vaibhav Jain

Amon Fayz

Every PM from Cohort 02. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

13 members · 12 weeks

Meet Nandhini

Your turn

Sambit 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 Sambit’s.

Next cohort: Cohort 09
Starts: Nov 14, 2026
Length: 8 weekends
Seats: 18–24

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In Sambit’s own words

Classrooms, EdTech, platforms, and now AI

Product Manager

Operations Manager

Senior Manager, Product

Platform Product Manager

Curious PM

What Sambit built, and writes

Modular AI chatbot platform

Workspace agent over MCP

Autonomous job-search agent

User research in EdTech: listening to learn

Platform thinking: beyond features to foundations

Building delightful experiences: my code to live by

Where Sambit works, who Sambit learned with

Platform Product Manager

Thirteen PMs, one cohort

Sambit built these. What would you build?

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