I talk about what experienced people can make with AI, from over a decade in hospitality and three companies built from the first version. I do podcasts, livestreams, virtual panels and remote workshops.
Topics
Customers are starting to send AI agents to book, change and ask for things. What the front desk knew that no policy page says, and who should decide how a business treats an agent. From the hotel desk and the host stand, and from building an assistant that makes those calls.
The limit on what an experienced person can make with AI is the context only they hold. Writing it down is the first thing they make, and most people skip it.
How a product leader built an always-on assistant, a prep tool for career coaches and personalized storybooks: what broke, what it cost in time, and what still needs a person.
Making personalized books with AI as a parent: the questionnaire, the read-aloud edit, and being plain about which steps the AI did.
For hosts
Short
Manav Thaker is a product leader and operator. He spent over a decade in hospitality, founded or co-founded three companies including a grocery marketplace that exited, and now builds with AI: Dial Zero, Grapevines, Little Fables and The Operator Economy.
Longer
Manav Thaker is a product leader and operator. He spent over a decade in hospitality, including as a manager at a hotel and a hotel restaurant and as Director of Customer Experience at Coqui Coqui. He co-founded Subziwalla, a grocery marketplace that exited, and Panso, and led product at both. Today he builds with AI from what he already knows: Dial Zero, an open-source personal assistant that can phone businesses for you; Grapevines, prep for career coaches; and Little Fables, custom storybooks first made for his son. He also runs The Operator Economy and a nightly show, MP in the PM.
