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Arian Askarizad · Product Manager

Four AI products.One PM.Zero handoffs.

I'm a product manager. I find the problem, talk to the people who have it, decide what to build, and then build it myself. In 2026 I took four AI products from problem to launch with no engineering team, working daily in Claude Code. Each case study below shows the product calls and the code they turned into.

4
products live
5mo
problem to launch, Apr – Sep 2026
1
person: PM, design, engineering
1,300+
tests + LLM evals

The work

Pictimate estimator showing a rendered basement floor in a flake finish with an upload prompt beneath it
01Live · paying

Pictimate

Instant quotes for floor-coating contractors. A homeowner uploads a photo, sees it rendered in the contractor's finishes, and gets a line-item price from the contractor's own rates.

Problem:
A homeowner can't see what a coated floor will look like, or what it will cost, without a contractor visit.
Outcome:
Live with contractors on branded pages and a paying customer within eight weeks of the first commit.
  • Next.js 16
  • Neon
  • AI Gateway · Gemini
  • Stripe
BossPal landing page headline: You're asleep. Your phone rings. Your AI answers, books the job, and texts you.
02Live · pilot

BossPal

A 24/7 AI receptionist for trade contractors. It answers customer texts and phone calls, quotes jobs, books appointments and collects payments while the owner works.

Problem:
A contractor on a job can't answer the phone, and the customer who gets voicemail calls the next name on the list.
Outcome:
Live at bosspal.ai with a pilot business answering real calls and texts.
  • Hono
  • LiveKit · Python
  • Twilio
  • Claude
DojoPrep live mock interview for a Senior Backend Engineer role, showing the interviewer's question and the candidate's transcribed answer
03Live

DojoPrep

Interview prep generated from your real résumé: live voice mock interviews, coding interviews where the code actually runs, job-fit scoring, and a Chrome extension that fills applications.

Problem:
Interview prep is generic. Candidates rehearse someone else's questions, never hear themselves under pressure, and then spend hours re-typing the same application forms.
Outcome:
Live at dojoprep.com with live billing, a Chrome extension acting on real application forms, and voice and coding interviews that run end to end.
  • Next.js 16
  • OpenAI Realtime
  • Vercel Sandbox
  • Chrome MV3
ReachGram landing page hero
04Live · paying

ReachGram

An outreach CRM for agencies running large Instagram pages: discovery, fit-scoring, AI-drafted DMs, meetings and deals, without tripping Meta's automation detection.

Problem:
Agencies running large Instagram pages need outreach at volume, but Meta bans pages that automate sends, and a 300K-follower page is not replaceable.
Outcome:
Live at reachgram.app with a paying customer: discovery, scoring, AI drafting and a human-in-the-loop send queue.
  • Next.js 16
  • Hono
  • BullMQ
  • Apify

How I work

  1. 01

    Ship the smallest thing someone will pay for

    Pictimate went from first commit to a paying contractor in under eight weeks. Every product launched with billing wired in from day one.

  2. 02

    Decide what the machine may not do

    ReachGram drafts every DM, but a human presses send. BossPal's customer tier never receives the pricing tool. DojoPrep fills applications but never submits. Those lines are product decisions, and they are why the products survive contact with Meta, TCPA and ATS terms.

  3. 03

    Silence is the worst failure

    A BossPal demo died mid-booking when the agent ran out of tool turns and sent nothing. The customer got dead air and assumed the business ghosted them. Since then every failure maps to a customer-visible message, and every background job reports into the channel its output was missing from.

  4. 04

    Every incident becomes a test

    A 301 sq ft garage once quoted $300 less than a 300 sq ft one. The fix made price monotonic by construction, and the test walks every square foot from 100 to 3,000. BossPal's eval harness runs golden and red-team suites against the real pipeline and blocks merge on regression.

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