Notes from the work.
Practical thinking from building AI products, running migrations and starting product teams: what I do, and why.
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What I'd tell anyone starting an AI Lab inside a newsroom
Lessons from founding Al Jazeera's AI Lab: start with literacy and real workflows, and build evaluation and governance before you scale.
- AI Lab
- Newsroom
- GenAI
- LLMOps
3 min read
Migrations are product work: cloud, payments and CMS
Infrastructure, payment and platform migrations usually fail for product reasons, not technical ones. A practical way to run them, drawn from three I've been responsible for.
- Migration
- Platform
- Payments
- Cloud
3 min read
Building a product function from zero: what to put in place first
What I focused on when I pioneered the Product Management department at Maqsam: listening to customers, explicit ownership, a light cadence, and measurement before process.
- Product management
- Startups
- Team building
- Discovery
3 min read
From ambiguity to direction: the seven steps I use
A practical path from a vague opportunity to an adopted product: opportunity, evidence, direction, alignment, execution, adoption and impact.
- Product strategy
- Product leadership
- Method
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From prototype to production: why AI demos stall
Moving AI from a promising demo to a reliable product is mostly a product and organizational problem. Where it stalls, and a simple test for each step forward.
- AI transformation
- MLOps
- Execution
3 min read
Practical AI product strategy: five questions before you build
How to identify meaningful AI opportunities without mistaking a prototype for a product: five questions I ask before any AI work gets a roadmap slot.
- AI product strategy
- Product leadership
- GenAI