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Anne T. Griffin is an AI product leader, fractional Head of Product Strategy, and consultant with 14 years of experience building products across Fortune 500 companies and AI-native startups. She has launched agentic AI products used by thousands of customers, helped drive over $1.8 million in customer expansion and renewal value through AI-powered workflows, and recently shipped 10 AI agents in under two and a half months. She also teaches AI courses for Pearson and O’Reilly and writes about AI strategy for Forbes.

THE SUMMARY

How do you build AI products that customers actually use and trust? Anne joins Polly Allen to share lessons from building multi-agent systems for cybersecurity, including how AI agents can simplify complex risk assessments, reduce manual work, and help non-technical users take action. She explains why successful AI products start with understanding customer needs—not adding AI for its own sake—and how to balance rapid experimentation with a minimum trustable product.

The conversation also explores designing intuitive AI experiences that drive adoption, building reusable agent components, and how hands-on product leaders need to be with AI technology. Anne shares practical advice for evaluating AI tools, understanding the gap between prototypes and production-ready products, and developing the technical judgment needed to build reliable AI solutions that deliver real customer value.

THE SHOW

Weekly conversations with the AI’s top product leaders. Join Polly Allen as she discovers the paths to success in the world of AI.

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Anne T. Griffin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetgriffin/
https://griffinproduct.co/

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Kavita Bondarenko is an agile delivery leader and Scrum Master with a decade of experience helping globally distributed teams deliver products across highly regulated industries, including space, telecommunications, and healthcare. Her background spans satellite platforms, healthcare modernization, stakeholder management, and cross-functional delivery.

Now transitioning from project management into AI product management, Kavita brings both delivery expertise and growing hands-on experience with AI tools, including Lovable, Claude, AWS AI, and Azure AI.

THE SUMMARY

Kavita shares her transition into AI product management and explains how hands-on experimentation with AI tools has changed the way she thinks about products, users, and product development. She discusses using Claude and Lovable to iterate on PRDs, prototype features, and communicate UI changes through screenshots and visual edits.

The conversation also covers how she approached learning AI from the ground up, the importance of understanding AI security and data in regulated industries, and her healthcare capstone project focused on improving patient eligibility and hospital admission workflows. Her practical advice for aspiring AI product leaders: don't wait until you know everything—choose one accessible AI tool, experiment with it, and learn by doing.

THE SHOW

Weekly conversations with the AI’s top product leaders. Join Polly Allen as she discovers the paths to success in the world of AI.

THE LINKS

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Kavita Bondarenko
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavita-bondarenko/
Email Address: kavita.dbond@gmail.com

My links
LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollymallen/⁠
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Amer Arab is a product leader and solo founder who built ClearList.me, an AI-powered platform that turns photos into marketplace listings and simplifies the process of selling belongings. He developed the product using Claude Code, drawing on his background in computer science, UX, and product management.

With experience at companies including Zynga and Peak Games, Amer has worked across localization, user experience, and product development. His earlier career included helping build an Arabic-language gaming experience that gained significant attention in the region.

Today, Amer combines product strategy, AI-assisted development, and rapid experimentation to run his software business independently. His experience offers practical insights for product managers and aspiring founders interested in building AI products without relying on a traditional engineering team.

THE SUMMARY

How do you build a useful AI product without letting the AI make all the decisions? Amer explains why product managers should start with outcomes rather than simply asking AI to build an app. He shares his process for defining user needs, brainstorming solutions, mapping happy and worst-case paths, and building a minimum lovable product.

Amer also breaks down his workflow for building with Claude Code, including multi-agent development, code reviews, security and scalability checks, and managing technical debt. He discusses how product managers can use AI to develop technical skills, why asking questions and reviewing AI-generated code matters, and how tools like Google Stitch and Claude skills support product development and marketing.

THE SHOW

Weekly conversations with the AI’s top product leaders. Join Polly Allen as she discovers the paths to success in the world of AI.

THE LINKS

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Amer Arab
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerarab/
ClearList: https://clearlist.me/

My links
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AI Career Boost: ⁠https://www.aicareerboost.com/⁠