Author: Ravi Ayyala

I help mid-sized companies find out which of their AI pays off, then I build it with them: hands-on myself, and with the team around it. 15+ years in product leadership: part of LinkedIn’s EMEA product and growth teams as global users grew from 80M to 560M (the enterprise API integrations I shipped reached 110M of those users directly), product lead at Blacklane (acquired by Uber), Head of Product at Moonfare (private-equity investment platform). Through SmartProduct I still do the hands-on work: agentic and RAG-based workflows for EU and UK mid-market companies, GDPR-compliant and EU-hosted where required, built against real governance standards (OWASP, AIUC-1, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act). And I lead: I set up the team around the work, bring in specialists where they’re needed, and coach your engineers so it keeps running without me. MBA (Oxford), Engineering (NUS), AI/Machine Learning (Stanford CS229). Not sure where your AI pays off? Start with an AI value review.