Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

Seventeen years in banking. AI, demystified

Seventeen years in banking and payments, from Open Banking to cross-border FX.

Paul’s portfolio
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Paul K Paul Senior Product Owner, Commonwealth Bank
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In Paul’s own words

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

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Paul on the course

An outstanding program that demystifies AI for product people.

The sessions bridge theoretical strategy with real, hands-on application.

It didn’t just teach me to use existing AI tools, it reframed how I think, giving me the confidence to design and build my own AI-driven solutions.

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What changed for Paul

AI, demystified.

Thinks about AI differently.

Designs his own AI solutions.

Paul 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

Code, banking, payments, and now AI

  1. 2006

    Software Engineer

    Infosys

  2. 2010

    Manager

    Federal Bank

  3. 2016

    Consultant

    Cognizant

  4. 2022

    Senior Manager

    American Express

  5. 2024

    Senior Product Owner

    Commonwealth Bank

  6. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Paul built, and writes

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01 / 03

AI networking assistant

Finds people by what they do rather than by keywords, then starts the introduction with a voice call.

Voice AI Pinecone Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

How matching by meaning differs from ordinary search.

02 / 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.

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
Open ↗
What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

What Paul writes
paulkpaul.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Open Banking is mostly plumbing, and that’s the point

The unglamorous work that makes Open Banking work.
paulkpaul.curious.pm5 min read ↗

The quiet craft of picking payment rails

How payment rails really get chosen.
paulkpaul.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Scrum, the way a banker still loves it

Agile through the eyes of someone who worked inside a bank.
Around Paul

Where Paul works, who Paul learned with

Where Paul works
Paul K Paul
Commonwealth Bank

Senior Product Owner

Since 2024
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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

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

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Eight weekends of building real AI products with a small group of PMs. You leave with a portfolio like Paul’s.

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