Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nine years building products. Built a real AI portfolio

AI-native products in London, after nine years across marketplaces, eCommerce and mobility.

Palak’s portfolio
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Palak Jain
Palak Jain Senior Product Manager, Indeed Flex
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In Palak’s own words

What Palak wrote about the course after Cohort 05. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Palak? I’ll intro you.

Palak JainCohort 05 · March 2026
Palak on the course

I’d read about AI for a while but never built anything, and that changed from week one.

The use cases, frameworks, and tools felt directly applicable, not theoretical.

By the end I had a real AI portfolio I’ve used in interviews and on the job, a rare outcome for any course.

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What changed for Palak

Went from reading to building.

Tools that felt directly applicable.

A real AI portfolio, used on the job.

Palak 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

Marketplaces, retail, AI-native, and now AI

  1. 2016

    Consultant

    Capgemini

  2. 2018

    Product Manager

    ZipGo

  3. 2019

    Product Manager

    Health & Glow

  4. 2022

    Senior Product Manager

    Indeed Flex

  5. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Palak built, and writes

See everything on Palak’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
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What it teaches a PM

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

02 / 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.

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 Palak writes
palak.curious.pm5 min read ↗

What actually changes when you become an AI-native PM

Nine years in, the last three changed the job.
palak.curious.pm5 min read ↗

RAG is a product design problem, not an engineering problem

Where AI products actually break.
palak.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Zero-to-one inside an enterprise is its own sport

Building new things inside large companies.
Around Palak

Where Palak works, who Palak learned with

Where Palak works
Palak Jain
Indeed Flex

Senior Product Manager

Since 2022
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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

Palak Jain Hrishi Swaroop Hrishi Swaroop Anup Gunja Anup Gunja Chinmaya Natarajan Chinmaya Natarajan Paul K Paul Paul K Paul Lakshmi Prasanna Lakshmi Prasanna Projjal Dhar Projjal Dhar Sneha Kulukuru Sneha Kulukuru Sai Gole Sai Gole Komal Sikka Komal Sikka P Pooja Teena Azmi Teena Azmi Gayathri Satish Gayathri Satish Arabinda Bhattacharjee Arabinda Bhattacharjee NG Nabendu Goswami Shivani Kolala Shivani Kolala Prem Sreenivasan Narayan Prem Sreenivasan Narayan Sameer Sudhakar Deshpande Sameer Sudhakar Deshpande SE Sameera Epari

Every PM from Cohort 05. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

19 members · 12 weeks
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Palak 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 Palak’s.

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