Akshay Sharma https://akshaysharma.io/writing/ Senior Product Manager at Avalara. 10+ years building enterprise AI products. Your AI roadmap should be a list of questionshttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/ai-products-need-a-different-roadmap/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/ai-products-need-a-different-roadmap/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFeature roadmaps assume you know what the software will do once it is built. With AI, you find that out after you ship. Evals are a product decisionhttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/evals-are-a-product-decision/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/evals-are-a-product-decision/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTIf the product manager does not define "good", the model team will, and they will optimise for whatever is easiest to measure. Agents in regulated work need a place to stophttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/agentic-ai-for-regulated-work/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/agentic-ai-for-regulated-work/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn tax, finance or healthcare, an agent that is right most of the time is not enough. Someone is accountable for every output. Six questions before an AI idea reaches the roadmaphttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/choosing-an-ai-use-case/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/choosing-an-ai-use-case/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMost AI ideas fail before a model is involved, because the use case was never worth solving. The demo worked. Now ship it.https://akshaysharma.io/writing/from-demo-to-production/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/from-demo-to-production/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFive things that break between a good demo and a product people use every day, and what to plan for each. A 90-day plan for moving into AI product managementhttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/moving-into-ai-product-management/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/moving-into-ai-product-management/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTYou do not need a machine learning degree. You need working knowledge, one thing you built, and a way to talk about both. The cost of a right answerhttps://akshaysharma.io/writing/cost-of-a-right-answer/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/cost-of-a-right-answer/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat cloud cost governance taught me about pricing an AI feature, and why cost per request is the wrong number. Build, buy or wrap?https://akshaysharma.io/writing/build-buy-or-wrap/https://akshaysharma.io/writing/build-buy-or-wrap/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThree ways to bring generative AI into an enterprise product, and how I choose between them.