Saswati Mishra
Human judgment has never been more important in the history of human civilization. I'm here to add mine to the sea of AI slop — with intention, with craft, and with the stubborn belief that the person behind the product still matters.
Background
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
MBA candidate. AIML-901 AgentOps. "Selling Yourself and Your Ideas." Built What's Next AI from concept to launch.
B2B SaaS Product
Product work in enterprise software — learning where friction lives and what it takes to reduce it at the moment a user encounters it.
Economic Research
Research on how people actually make decisions — messy, contextual, and shaped by constraints you can't see from a spreadsheet.
Artist
Watercolor, gouache, ink, rangoli, field sketching. The practice of looking closely has shaped everything else.
Writing
AI ProductWhat's Next AI
I built an AI product that helps overwhelmed professionals figure out what to do next. Here's why I built it, what I learned about the judgment layer around AI, and what I'd do differently now.
ReflectionMichelangelo, Raphael, and the Low-Ego Builder
A talk I gave at Kellogg about two Renaissance painters and what they reveal about the kind of builder this moment actually needs. Hint: it's not the genius working alone on the ceiling.
EssayThe Case for Looking Closely
How bird watching in the lakes of Bangalore opened a third eye I didn't know I had — and why the practice of observation is something I want everyone to experience.
I'm exploring AI product roles at companies where human judgment is the product, not just the process. If that's your team, I'd love to hear from you.
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