The AI Product Playbook | Writing by Akshay Sharma

Latest edition · 2 September 2026

From Prompt Engineering to Graph Engineering: How AI Systems Are Growing Up

Every few months, AI seems to invent a new engineering term. First, everyone needed to learn prompt engineering.

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October 2026

Your AI roadmap should be a list of questions

Feature roadmaps assume you know what the software will do once it is built. With AI, you find that out after you ship.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 4 min read

Evals are a product decision

If the product manager does not define "good", the model team will, and they will optimise for whatever is easiest to measure.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 4 min read

Agents in regulated work need a place to stop

In tax, finance or healthcare, an agent that is right most of the time is not enough. Someone is accountable for every output.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 4 min read

Six questions before an AI idea reaches the roadmap

Most AI ideas fail before a model is involved, because the use case was never worth solving.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 3 min read

The demo worked. Now ship it.

Five things that break between a good demo and a product people use every day, and what to plan for each.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 3 min read

A 90-day plan for moving into AI product management

You do not need a machine learning degree. You need working knowledge, one thing you built, and a way to talk about both.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 3 min read

The cost of a right answer

What cloud cost governance taught me about pricing an AI feature, and why cost per request is the wrong number.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 4 min read

Build, buy or wrap?

Three ways to bring generative AI into an enterprise product, and how I choose between them.

6 October 2026 · Guide · 4 min read

August 2026

Why Your AI Strategy Is Already Obsolete?

For years, the playbook has been simple: add an AI model to your product, and users will pay attention. We’ve all accepted this as the baseline for innovation.

21 August 2026 · LinkedIn newsletter ↗

Is AI Hacking You?

Why the Biggest Risk Isn't Smarter AI. It's AI That Finds Shortcuts 19 unauthorized actions.

7 August 2026 · LinkedIn newsletter ↗

Build AI Agents That Learn from Every Interaction

Imagine a procurement AI agent reviewing supplier contracts. A user asks: “Does this contract allow the supplier to increase prices during the first year?” The agent searches the document and responds: “No.

3 August 2026 · LinkedIn newsletter ↗

July 2026

AI Is Breaking Traditional SaaS Pricing

In February 2024, Klarna announced that its OpenAI-built customer service assistant was doing the work of 700 full-time agents, handling 2.3 million conversations in its first month, across 23 markets and 35 languages, resolving issues in under 2 minutes instead of 11.

24 July 2026 · LinkedIn newsletter ↗

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Research

IJRSI, Vol. XI, Issue IV, 2024

AI for Bridging Socio-Economic Inequities in Indian Education Space

Arijit Goswami and Akshay Sharma

Using UDISE, World Bank, NITI Aayog and UNICEF data, we argue that AI belongs in Indian classrooms only if it personalises attention: adaptive learning, fairer assessment, and teacher time returned to the student the average hides. Related background work was acknowledged in UNESCO's State of Education Report for India 2022.

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From Prompt Engineering to Graph Engineering: How AI Systems Are Growing Up

Your AI roadmap should be a list of questions

Evals are a product decision

Agents in regulated work need a place to stop

Six questions before an AI idea reaches the roadmap

The demo worked. Now ship it.

A 90-day plan for moving into AI product management

The cost of a right answer

Build, buy or wrap?

Why Your AI Strategy Is Already Obsolete?

Is AI Hacking You?

Build AI Agents That Learn from Every Interaction

AI Is Breaking Traditional SaaS Pricing

Research

AI for Bridging Socio-Economic Inequities in Indian Education Space

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