MP Thaker.I build AI systems
that give people their
time back.
15+ years, 3 ventures built, 1 exit. I ship working systems, instrument them, and measure what they actually do — across marketplaces, hospitality, B2B SaaS, and AI platforms.
Three I've built. Real numbers.
Things I started, scaled, and (in one case) exited. Lovingly was a role, not a venture — it lives in experience.
Grapevines — an AI career strategist for senior professionals
An AI career strategist for senior professionals. 100 users in, every onboarding still a 1:1. The depth of a $300/hour coach, running at the cadence a real job search needs. Built solo, live at grapevines.ai.
Panso — a customer-experience platform, SMB to enterprise
Built CxOS, a CDP unifying transaction data across ticketing, POS, and payments. Landed the IKEA Ingka / Saluhall partnership — 319,950 footfall, 18% over projection — and 65% email open rate, 3× the category baseline.
Subziwalla — a grocery marketplace, bootstrap to exit
Co-founded and scaled a D2C grocery marketplace to 20,000 users and a successful exit. 70% retention — precisely 2.3× the 30% industry average — on sub-$10 CAC.
Things I've shipped, with the receipts.
Grapevines — AI career strategist
Multi-agent system behind grapevines.ai. CV Intel at /intel surfaces the hiring manager and their role in the decision; the full app runs positioning, fit-scoring, and outreach. Claude-based orchestration, eval loops, human-in-the-loop by design.
Canairy — an early-warning system for households
44+ leading indicators across finance, supply chain, energy, and geopolitics. Risk-severity alerts and plain-English actions. Live at canairy.news.
Hummingbird — wealth ops with real banking
9 AI engines, Plaid + Alpaca paper trading, MCP servers for Claude. Confidence-scored categorization at 96.2%. Functional locally, demo by request.
Busylobby — boutique hospitality web ops
A live B2B services business: scout boutique inns with weak websites, build a redesign demo, run the funnel end-to-end. Different from the engineering case studies — the business is the deliverable: I scout the inns, build the demo, and run the funnel myself.
Storyverse — personalized bedtime stories for families
Built for my son so he could be the hero of stories that reflected his world. I stripped out anything personal and made it free for other families to use — no setup, no engineering needed.
World Cup 2026 visualizer
Single-screen explorer with a composite-rating + Poisson + Monte Carlo model. Backtested on 2022, walk-forward.
Where I've worked.
Re-platforming toward a $200M marketplace vision, with $3.6M net impact and 80% of repetitive PM work handed to AI. By the time I left, the team had its calendar back.
Before software. Ran experience across four properties and ten departments. 80% YoY revenue growth, 0% turnover across a 50-person team. Where I learned to design under pressure, in real time, for the person standing in front of you.
A builder who ships, measures, and stays human.
Fifteen-plus years, three ventures built, one exit. I’ve shipped across hospitality, a grocery marketplace, a customer-data platform, and AI transformation at a gift marketplace serving 1,500+ florists. The through-line isn’t an industry — it’s building systems that drive real, measured outcomes.
What seemed like a detour through the dining room was actually the foundation: I learned to read a room fast, ship under pressure, and own the gap between what was promised and what was delivered. The medium changed; the obsession didn’t. Father to a toddler, building with ADHD, based in New Jersey.
Evidence, not adjectives
Numbers do the bragging so adjectives don't have to. I instrument first, then claim.
Humans on both sides of the screen
Every system has a person at each end. Hospitality taught me that; AI hasn't changed it.
Give people their time back
The best automation isn't impressive — it's invisible. 80% of the busywork, just gone.
Field notes.
Weekly essays in Product of One — career as product, AI in real product work, and the craft of building. Notes from inside the work, not above it.
- 01Why the best career tool isn’t a generatorCareer as productCareer4 min
- 02The deposit before the withdrawalCareer as product · networksCareer5 min
- 03The translation gap (the resume problem that isn’t)Career as productCareer3 min
- 04Nice vs. kind (a builder confession)Building AIBuilding2 min
- 05Fix the sound of the oceanHospitality lessonsHospitality2 min
Let’s build
something good.
Advisory work, partnerships, or just saying hi. I read everything.