Member story · Cohort 08 · August 2026

A decade in market intelligence. Coaching that guides when you need it

Twelve years in market and competitive intelligence at VMware and IBM, now consulting independently on growth for coaches and small businesses.

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In Saurav’s own words

What Saurav wrote about the course after Cohort 08. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Saurav? I’ll intro you.

Saurav SarkarCohort 08 · August 2026
Saurav on the course

Ankit has been a wonderful mentor throughout my journey. His hands-on expertise in AI and Product Management is truly valuable.

These 8 weekends with Ankit and his team include excellent 1:1 coaching and continuous support. Ankit is always approachable and ready to guide whenever you need help.

I highly recommend learning from him!

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What changed for Saurav

1:1 coaching and continuous support.

Always approachable, ready to guide.

Hands-on expertise in AI and product.

Saurav learned alongside PMs from
Quest American Express Publicis
Morgan Stanley Google PhonePe
Salesforce Oracle NVIDIA
Barclays Airbnb JPMorgan Chase
Microsoft Walmart Global Tech India Amazon
Cisco Palo Alto Networks Myntra
Intuit Tesco Technology Verizon
Indeed Caterpillar Unilever
Motorola Solutions Zoho Trellix
U.S. Bank Lowe's India EY
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The path

Research, insights, then product

  1. 2016

    Senior Business Development and Research

    Infoholic Research

  2. 2017

    Analyst, Business Research and Insights

    VMware

  3. 2021

    Senior Analyst, Business Research and Insights

    VMware

  4. 2024

    Product Manager

    IBM

  5. Aug 2026

    Curious PM

    Cohort 08, August 2026

The work

What Saurav built, and writes

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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

Podcast search with RAG

Turns podcast episodes into vector embeddings, so you can ask a question and get the answer from what was actually said.

RAG Pinecone Streamlit
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What it teaches a PM

How retrieval keeps an answer grounded in real content.

03 / 03

Personal AI agent with voice

One agent loop that searches and reads the web, remembers you between sessions, runs a job search from your resume and answers the phone, with chat and voice sharing one memory.

AI Agents mem0 ElevenLabs Twilio
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What it teaches a PM

The assistant grows by registering tools, not by adding branches.

What Saurav writes
saurav.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Competitive Analysis That Product Teams Actually Use

Years as an analyst, now a product manager: what makes competitive work useful to a roadmap, and what makes it noise.
saurav.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Funnels for Coaches Are About Fewer, Better Calls

Growth systems for wellness coaches, where the goal is not more calls on the calendar but more qualified ones.
saurav.curious.pm3 min read ↗

Research Is Only Finished When Someone Acts on It

The lesson from years of market research at VMware that took longest to learn: a well-built report is not the goal, a decision is.
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41 PMs, in their own words

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