Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

Thirteen years in media tech. Now builds working prototypes

AI products for media and broadcast teams. Thirteen years, from evaluator to product manager.

Ranjith’s portfolio
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Ranjith Kurukkath
Ranjith Kurukkath Product Manager at Digital Nirvana
Ranjith’s feedback

In Ranjith’s own words

What Ranjith wrote about the course after Cohort 01. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Ranjith? I’ll intro you.

Ranjith KurukkathCohort 01 · August 2025
Ranjith on the course

This course has been incredibly eye-opening for understanding the AI landscape and how AI tools work.

I’ve gained solid understanding of LLMs and technical aspects PMs need to master.

Tools like Claude Code have made my work life easier – I can now provide working code to my dev team!

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What changed for Ranjith

Understands how AI tools work.

Knows LLMs and the tech PMs need.

Shares working prototypes with the dev team.

Ranjith 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

Thirteen years, one company, and now AI

  1. 2012

    Senior Analyst

    Digital Nirvana

  2. 2015

    Production Supervisor

    Digital Nirvana

  3. 2016

    Team Lead

    Digital Nirvana

  4. Now

    Product Manager

    Digital Nirvana: AI for media and broadcast

  5. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, with 17 other PMs

The work

What Ranjith 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

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
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What it teaches a PM

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

03 / 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.

What Ranjith writes
ranjith.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Books that shaped my year

Lessons in purpose, habits and focus from a year of reading.
ranjith.curious.pm5 min read ↗

The success of a failure

What career setbacks taught, and what came after them.
Around Ranjith

Where Ranjith works, who Ranjith learned with

Where Ranjith works
Ranjith Kurukkath

Product Manager

Working on AI for media and broadcast.

Since 2012 · 4 roles here
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Cohort 01 · August 2025

Eighteen PMs, the first cohort

Ranjith Kurukkath Vinit Gujarathi Vinit Gujarathi Lokesh Leel Lokesh Leel Karine Majdalani Karine Majdalani Pradeep Reddy Pradeep Reddy Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Raunak Pandey Raunak Pandey Shreya Doreswamy Shreya Doreswamy Sambit Kumar Das Sambit Kumar Das Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Parasa Lakshmi Neeharika Srinath Srinath Almas Ali Almas Ali Shyam Saha Shyam Saha Tanmayee Ambekar Tanmayee Ambekar Kancherla Guru Prasad Kancherla Guru Prasad Karthik R Iyer Karthik R Iyer TP Test participant A Ajinkya

Every PM from Cohort 01. Tap a face, or meet them one by one.

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Ranjith 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 Ranjith’s.

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