Member story · Cohort 01 · August 2025

From civil engineer to product. Had a mentor in his corner

Construction software for engineers worldwide. A civil engineer who went from code to product.

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Vinit Gujarathi Senior Product Manager at Procore Technologies
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What Vinit wrote about the course after Cohort 01. These are real people with real portfolios, not marketing copy. Want to talk to Vinit? I’ll intro you.

Vinit GujarathiCohort 01 · August 2025
Vinit on the course

Ankit makes your problem his problem and he is very sincere in his efforts.

He is someone who will genuinely root for you.

His dedication to each student’s success and willingness to help goes beyond what you’d expect from a course.

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What changed for Vinit

A mentor who made the problem his own.

Someone genuinely rooting for the work.

Support that went beyond a course.

Vinit 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

Engineering, code, product, and now AI

  1. 2012

    Software Engineer

    Tekla

  2. 2015

    Structural Programmer

    Walter P Moore

  3. 2018

    Project Lead Developer

    Sungrace

  4. 2020

    Product Owner

    vConstruct

  5. 2025

    Senior Product Manager

    Procore Technologies

  6. Aug 2025

    Curious PM

    Cohort 01, with 17 other PMs

The work

What Vinit 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

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.

03 / 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.

What Vinit writes
vinit.curious.pm5 min read ↗

The tech-savvy PM playbook: from black box to glass box

Why a PM can’t treat the tech behind the product as a black box.
vinit.curious.pm4 min read ↗

Frontend vs backend: a PM’s technical compass

How much technical depth a PM needs depends on the product.
vinit.curious.pm3 min read ↗

What should a PRD contain? Start with who’s reading it

A PRD works when it is written for the people who read it.
Around Vinit

Where Vinit works, who Vinit learned with

Where Vinit works
Vinit Gujarathi

Senior Product Manager

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Vinit GujarathiVinit
Cohort 01 · August 2025

Eighteen PMs, the first cohort

Vinit Gujarathi Lokesh Leel Lokesh Leel Karine Majdalani Karine Majdalani Pradeep Reddy Pradeep Reddy Vidhika Chakravarti Vidhika Chakravarti Ranjith Kurukkath Ranjith Kurukkath 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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Vinit 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 Vinit’s.

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