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✦ About

About Me

Alok Abhishek

I am a product leader and independent AI researcher with more than fifteen years of experience building AI-native enterprise SaaS products. My focus is zero-to-one innovation: translating ambiguous ideas into validated product-market fit. Across multiple initiatives, I have led products from early hypothesis and prototype to eight-figure annual recurring revenue and sustained enterprise adoption in global markets.

My work begins with disciplined problem framing. Through qualitative research and quantitative validation, I identify customer pain points that are prevalent, consequential, and time-sensitive — the problems worth solving at scale. From this foundation, I define a clear product vision and strategy that directly connect user outcomes to business economics. I approach product strategy as an integrated system: customer insight shapes the value proposition, the value proposition shapes the monetization logic, and the monetization logic shapes roadmap prioritization. The result is a data-informed roadmap in which every initiative is tied to measurable outcomes, not outputs.

I collaborate with marketing and sales across the full go-to-market lifecycle. This includes defining user and buyer personas, articulating differentiated positioning, shaping pricing and packaging strategy, and enabling sales with narratives grounded in economic value. I measure success by demonstrated product-market fit, repeatable revenue, customer adoption, and the establishment of sustainable competitive advantage.

I bring deep expertise in AI systems, machine learning, data platforms, cloud computing, and enterprise SaaS architectures. This foundation enables me to lead the definition and development of autonomous agents, domain-specific AI services, advanced models, and data products engineered for regulated industries. I design AI-native products where intelligence is foundational to the value proposition. Privacy, governance, reliability, and auditability are embedded in the definition, ensuring solutions that are innovative, defensible, and production-ready for enterprise environments.

Alongside industry work, I conduct independent research on responsible AI and risk evaluation. I developed BEATS, a benchmark for assessing bias and structural fairness in large language models, and SHARP, a risk-based framework for quantifying social harm across dimensions including fairness, ethics, and epistemic reliability. These frameworks introduce structured, reproducible methods for evaluating AI systems beyond surface-level performance metrics. My work has been published in the MIT Science Policy Review, arXiv, IEEE, and other reputable industry publications.

I operate as a strategy-to-product builder, translating customer insight into product vision, aligning economics with architecture, and shipping AI systems that generate measurable business outcomes.

✦ Experience

Career Highlights

15+Years of Product Leadership

Defining vision and strategy, achieving product-market fit, and scaling enterprise data and AI SaaS platforms

$10M++ARR per Product

Scaled multiple enterprise platforms from concept to eight-figure recurring revenue, achieving product-market fit

ThousandsEnterprise Customers

Drove adoption of AI and cloud platforms across thousands of large and global enterprise customers

11Research & Industry Publications

arXiv, MIT Science Policy Review, IEEE Computer, and leading industry journals

✦ Expertise

Core Capabilities

Product Strategy

Full-spectrum product management — from vision and roadmap to requirements, pricing, and go-to-market. Skilled in design thinking and human-centered design to deliver differentiated products.

AI Research

Advancing the field through independent research on bias, fairness, hallucinations, and systemic risks in LLMs. Author of BEATS (arXiv), SHARP (arXiv), and contributor to MIT Science Policy Review.

AI/ML Productization

Designing, building, and shipping AI-powered products. Operationalizing classical ML, LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows with a focus on scalability, performance, and enterprise adoption.

Data Platforms & APIs

Architecting multi-tenant medallion data platforms, developer-first APIs, and secure data services for enterprise SaaS. Expertise in pipelines, governance, and modern lakehouse architectures.

✦ Published In

MIT Science Policy ReviewIEEE Computer SocietyarXivAWS Partner NetworkILTA Peer-to-PeerDATAVERSITYTechStrong.ai

✦ Beyond Work

Life Outside the Office

When I’m not building products or writing research papers, you’ll find me exploring Northern California’s trails with my dog, camping under the stars, or planning the next hiking adventure. I believe the best ideas often come when you step away from the screen and into nature.

I’m also passionate about mentoring aspiring product managers and engaging with the broader tech community through speaking engagements, open-source contributions, and thoughtful discourse on the future of AI and technology.