Member story · Cohort 05 · March 2026

A decade of fleet and OMS products. AI, now practical

Fleet SaaS at Verizon Connect in Dublin, after a decade of OMS and B2B products.

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

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Projjal on the course

The curriculum is well-structured, but what sets it apart is the hands-on exercises and the collaborative cohort.

Learning the fundamentals changed how I navigate the AI landscape.

It turns AI from an intimidating mystery into something practical that anyone can actually learn to use.

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What changed for Projjal

Learned in a collaborative cohort.

Navigates the AI landscape differently.

AI is practical now, not a mystery.

Projjal 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

OMS, retail, fleet SaaS, and now AI

  1. 2011

    Product Specialist

    Cognizant

  2. 2015

    OMS Consultant

    IBM

  3. 2017

    Team Lead

    Accenture

  4. 2019

    Product Owner

    Retail inMotion

  5. 2022

    Senior Product Owner

    Verizon Connect

  6. Mar 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 05, with 18 other PMs

The work

What Projjal built, and writes

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01 / 03

Story Globe: a 3D folk-tale explorer

A WebGL globe with flags for 14 countries; tap one to read that country’s folk tales and their authors. No signup needed.

Three.js React Supabase
Open ↗
What it teaches a PM

How zero-friction design keeps people exploring.

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
Open ↗
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
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What it teaches a PM

Why keeping state is the hard part of conversational AI.

What Projjal writes
projjal.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Why an EV suitability tool was worth betting on

The award-winning feature that looked obvious only afterwards.
projjal.curious.pm5 min read ↗

Discovery and delivery are not the same sport

Why teams that treat them alike struggle.
projjal.curious.pm5 min read ↗

From OMS consultant to product owner

What actually transferred.
Around Projjal

Where Projjal works, who Projjal learned with

Where Projjal works
Projjal Dhar

Senior Product Owner

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Cohort 05 · March 2026

Nineteen PMs, one cohort

Projjal Dhar Hrishi Swaroop Hrishi Swaroop Anup Gunja Anup Gunja Chinmaya Natarajan Chinmaya Natarajan Paul K Paul Paul K Paul Lakshmi Prasanna Lakshmi Prasanna Palak Jain Palak Jain 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.

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