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Chat, models that read what you actually need, and automation that takes the phone queue out of fixing a loan.
I coach product managers through the moves that are hardest to make alone. Product leader at Capital One.
My career started at age 10, in a small farming town in South Texas, fixing whatever the neighbors dropped off that wasn’t working. It is still the job: something’s confusing, someone’s stuck, and you get to hand it back working.
The answer looks different in maritime shipping than it does in consumer banking, and it has never once come from a better framework. It comes from asking why this is harder than it needs to be, and then talking to whoever is stuck.
Data points you at the problem. Conversations tell you what it means. When the two disagree, dig in, because one of them is lying. After Shaun Clowes, on Lenny’s Podcast.
Every change helps some customers and stings others in ways the topline never shows. Both are hiding inside that tidy number.
My best calls were bets small enough that being wrong cost a week. The ones that hurt were the ones I made big, because they felt certain.
Chat, models that read what you actually need, and automation that takes the phone queue out of fixing a loan.
Real-time credit decisioning that cut refinancing from weeks to minutes.
Zero to one: first pitch to enterprise contracts on three continents.
Speed and routing models that burned less fuel across commercial fleets.
Scheduling, timecards and compliance made faster and harder to get wrong.
Plain questions in place of a form, matched to coverage that actually fit.
Tracked hardware readiness in real time so go-live held in every ward.
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