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Stop Optimizing for Conversion. Start Building for Commitment.

Why the best fintech products have mastered intent and trust-building and what every PLG team can steal from their playbook

Jun 10 • Kunal Thadani and Gaurav Hardikar

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May 2026

Your Eval Is Not Your Customer: The AI Trust Reckoning

Companies optimize the eval layer as a proxy for quality. When the proxy becomes the target, the product silently decays. Here's how to redesign your…

May 28 • Gaurav Hardikar and Kunal Thadani

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April 2026

How Ancestry Used AI to Unlock a New Customer Segment

The AI playbook that turned Ancestry's biggest conversion gap into a growth engine.

Apr 8 • Kunal Thadani, Gaurav Hardikar, and Ramesh Krishnamurthy

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March 2026

How LinkedIn’s AI Agents are growing trust & revenue at scale

The exact playbook LinkedIn is using to create multi-step AI agents to increase self serve rates and unlock expansion revenue.

Mar 3 • Kunal Thadani and Gaurav Hardikar

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February 2026

Generalists Aren’t Dead: The Rise of the Product Builder

Specialization is for scaling; generalists are for starting. Learn how to operationalize the Product Builder to validate ideas faster, kill the PRD, and…

Feb 19 • Gaurav Hardikar and Kunal Thadani

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January 2026

What Enterprise Buyers Really Expect from AI Products and How to Win Them

What enterprise buyers actually require before they trust AI to act autonomously

Jan 28 • Kunal Thadani and Gaurav Hardikar

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Building a world-class loyalty program is even easier with AI

How eBay cut churn from their most valuable customers by 50% using exclusivity and incentives as levers.

Jan 14 • Gaurav Hardikar and Kunal Thadani

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November 2025

AI × PLG: The 3 Patterns That Actually Move Activation and Revenue

AI tactics that collapse setup, surface ROI, and turn PLG into a continuous value loop.

Nov 6, 2025 • Kunal Thadani and Gaurav Hardikar

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September 2025

Vibe coding alone won't get you to your first $1k

Most apps never make it past launch. Here’s how builders unlock real users, real revenue, and real traction with AI.

Sep 3, 2025 • Kunal Thadani, Gaurav Hardikar, and Aparna Somaiah

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August 2025

Your AI Feature Didn’t Work. Here’s Why.

A tactical guide with case studies for designing systems that scale impact, reduce friction, and turn cost centers into growth engines.

Aug 21, 2025 • Kunal Thadani, Gaurav Hardikar, and Jerrell Taylor

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May 2025

Inside the Upmarket Growth Engine That Built ServiceTitan

How a battle-tested product, sales, and customer success motion showed that execution can drive category dominance

May 13, 2025 • Kunal Thadani, Gaurav Hardikar, and Mark Weeks

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April 2025

How Uber Eats Decreased Defect Rates

The Power of Product–Ops Collaboration: Inside the Data-Driven Playbook That Lowered Errors and Boosted Customer Satisfaction

Apr 22, 2025 • Kunal Thadani and Gaurav Hardikar

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