PRODUCT · AI · SAAS
REV 01 · 2026
// AKSHAY — SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, AI & SAAS

I ship agentic AI and SaaS products that businesses trust in production.

Senior Product Manager with 12+ years turning messy business workflows into AI and SaaS systems people actually rely on — intelligent document processing, LLM productization, and agentic in-product systems. I also design the hardware behind a small IoT venture on the side, which keeps my product judgment grounded in what's actually buildable.

Currently Senior PM, Procys IDP 12+ years across AI/LLM products, IDP, SaaS Based in Airoli, Navi Mumbai
500+assistant conversations/week handled by Isabelle, a chatbot I shipped
12+ yrsbuilding AI, SaaS, and document intelligence products
100essays written on AI productization and IDP
2SaaS products in active development (Marginalia, SmartStay 360)
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About

I'm a Senior Product Manager who ships AI and SaaS products into production for real customers — intelligent document processing, LLM productization, and agentic in-product systems that businesses can actually trust with their workflows. That means owning the full loop: defining what "good" looks like with evals, deciding when an agent earns its complexity over a simpler workflow, and weighing accuracy against cost and latency as real product trade-offs, not afterthoughts.

I don't just write specs for engineering teams — I've built enough of the underlying systems myself, including a side hardware-plus-SaaS venture called Athlax Solutions, to know what a spec is usually missing. That grounding shows up as measurable efficiency gains from AI-native workflow changes at work, and as a growing set of SaaS products I'm building end to end, from PRD to prototype.

Formally: a B.Eng in Electronics & Communication, followed by a postgraduate program in AI & Machine Learning. Practically: whatever I've had to learn to get a product from idea to something that actually runs.

  • ROLESenior PM, Procys IDP
  • COMPANYOpenprovider
  • VENTUREAthlax Solutions
  • EDUCATIONB.Eng, Electronics & Communication — VTU
  • EDUCATIONPGP, AI & ML — Great Learning
  • LOCATIONAiroli, Navi Mumbai
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Experience

2024 — PRESENT
Senior Product Manager
Openprovider — Procys IDP

Leading product for Procys, an Intelligent Document Processing platform. Own the roadmap across ERP integration and LLM migration, and built out Isabelle, a support chatbot now handling 500+ conversations a week. Drove AI-native workflow changes internally that produced measurable efficiency gains across the team.

IDP LLM migration ERP integration Agentic support systems
ONGOING
Founder
Athlax Solutions

A hardware-plus-SaaS venture spanning industrial IoT, smart safety hardware, and a small hospitality/productivity SaaS line. I run product, hardware design, and firmware across the portfolio — see Projects below for the individual bets.

Hardware Embedded firmware SaaS product Go-to-market
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How I build AI & SaaS products

Define quality before building
Every AI feature starts with an eval set and a shipping bar agreed with engineering and the business. If we can't measure it, we don't ship it.
Design for the failure, not the demo
I map how the model will be wrong, then decide what the product does about it: validation rules, confidence thresholds, or a person in the loop.
Choose agents only when they earn it
Many problems are better solved by a single well-built prompt or a deterministic workflow. Agents are for tasks that need planning and tool use.
Weigh accuracy, cost, and latency together
The best model is the one that meets the bar at a price and speed the business can sustain. I make those trade-offs explicit.
Keep people accountable for outcomes
AI can draft, extract, and recommend. Decisions with real business weight keep a named human owner and an audit trail.
Ship SaaS end to end
From PRD to prototype to go-to-market — I scope products I can actually validate with users before asking an engineering team to build them.
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Projects

PRODUCT & SOFTWARE
SmartStay 360
Prototype built

Hospitality SaaS combining property management, energy management, and inventory control in one platform.

Shipped so far: full PRD and an interactive prototype. Currently extending with an Inventory Management module — room amenities, housekeeping supplies, and engineering parts, with presence-detection-triggered restocking alerts.

Marginalia — AI legal document analysis
In development

An AI tool that reads legal documents and surfaces the parts that matter — clauses, obligations, deadlines, risks, and penalties — without a line-by-line manual read.

Includes: a natural-language Q&A interface that answers strictly from the document's own content.

Target: law firms and legal professionals, launching into Tier-1/2 Indian firms and corporate legal teams first. End-to-end PRD complete.

FlowDesk
MVP defined

A personal productivity app built around a "timestamp everywhere" philosophy — every action carries a record of when it happened.

Stack: React + Supabase. PRD and MVP scope defined.

SIP + SWP Calculator
In build

A financial planning calculator modeling combined systematic investment and systematic withdrawal plans, built for potential public release.

 

HARDWARE & IoT
FARMS — Field Autonomous RMS
Active build

Industrial fire safety compliance IoT platform under Athlax (formerly named Sentinel). Go-to-market is pivoting toward FLA and fire-AMC contractors, selling white-label compliance evidence dashboards.

Stack: ESP32-S3, 4G LTE, LiFePO4 power chain, ATECC608B secure element, ThingsBoard/TimescaleDB backend, remote monitoring over MQTT with device pairing and multi-device dashboards.

Positioning: built around CPCB fire compliance requirements — one of two primary product bets in the Athlax hardware+SaaS portfolio.

Mod-1 — Smart Spike Guard
Certification stage

A smart electrical spike guard, engineered for the Indian safety-certification market.

Status: working toward BIS IS 302 certification.

The other of the two primary Athlax hardware bets, alongside FARMS.

Field telemetry & monitoring systems
Multiple deployments

A series of ESP32-based systems for remote field monitoring and control, designed and built end to end — schematic, firmware, cloud, dashboard.

Includes: FSDS (Field Status & Diagnostics System) over WiFi/4G with Firebase RTDB and a custom dashboard; an ESP32 solenoid valve controller with deep-sleep power management; a 22-node ESP-NOW solenoid mesh for field deployment; an ESP-MESH train monitoring architecture; and JalMitra, a solar-powered animal water dispenser (PRD and BOM complete).

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Skills

PRODUCT & AI

Product strategy & roadmapping12+ YRS
Intelligent document processingCORE
LLM productizationCORE
Agentic / in-product AI systemsAPPLIED
ERP integrationAPPLIED
Go-to-market & positioningAPPLIED

HARDWARE & EMBEDDED

PCB design (KiCad)CORE
ESP32 firmwareCORE
4G / cellular modulesAPPLIED
BMS & battery pack engineeringAPPLIED
MQTT / IoT cloud (EMQX, Firebase, ThingsBoard)CORE
Secure elements & power systemsAPPLIED
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Writing

I write regularly about intelligent document processing, applied LLM systems, agentic products, and the business of building SaaS — drawn from the work, not from the outside. Around 100 essays so far; a few to start with:

Dec 2024
Intelligent Document Processing

Why OCR Accuracy Is the Wrong Metric — Use Straight-Through Processing Rate Instead

OCR accuracy is a component metric that tells you almost nothing about whether your document automation product is working. Straight-through processing rate does.

Read the full piece →
May 2025
LLM Productization

Hybrid Routing Between Cheap Models, Expensive Models, and Humans

A three-tier routing architecture and the hard part nobody talks about: producing a difficulty signal good enough to route on.

Read the full piece →
Oct 2024
Agentic AI

Lessons From Running a Customer-Facing Assistant at 500+ Conversations a Week

What changes when an in-product assistant stops being a demo and starts carrying real conversation volume, week after week.

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Aug 2026
Compliance as Product

Certification as a Moat: The Unglamorous Regtech Advantage

Certifications, accreditations, and registrations are slow, expensive, and boring — which is precisely what makes them defensible in a market where software features are not.

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Jun 2026
Hardware + SaaS

Hardware Plus SaaS: The Hardest Business Model, and the Most Defensible

Why connected-hardware businesses are punishing to operate and extremely difficult to displace once established — and what has to be true for the trade to be worth it.

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Aug 2025
Building in Public

Twelve Years of Shipping: The Mistakes I Keep Repeating

The errors that recur despite being known, why knowing about them is insufficient, and the structural fixes that actually work.

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Browse all 100 essays →
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Contact

Hiring for an AI PM or FDE role? Let's talk.