Aakash Gupta
Author of Product Growth
Author of Product Growth, the #1 Product Management and AI newsletter on Substack with over 150,000 paid and free subscribers. Former VP of Product at Apollo.io, advising Fortune 500 product organizations and venture-backed AI startups on copilot UX, AI monetization, and product discovery.
Areas of focus
Professional niches
Proof of Work
AI Product Management Frameworks and Evaluation Rubrics
Formulated the foundational operational frameworks for AI PMs, detailing how to manage stochastic failure states, set confidence thresholds, and instrument telemetry for generative features.
Frameworks must be adapted when transitioning from deterministic classification to unstructured creative generation.
Context: Human-in-the-loop UX, confidence score routing, telemetry instrumentations.
View missionThe Product Growth AI Playbook: Monopolies, Moats, and Copilots
Researched and published comprehensive strategic breakdowns analyzing pricing tiers, retention curves, and UX design patterns of breakout AI products (Cursor, Perplexity, Midjourney, GitHub Copilot).
Rapidly changing underlying inference costs require quarterly updates to pricing model assumptions.
Context: SaaS unit economics, token margins, AI user retention cohort analysis.
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