Long-form writing by Dhiraj Makam on building real products with AI: conversion rate optimization, analytics, QA, design, and the operating model around them.
Every article here is mirrored from dhirajmakam.com, where it was first published. Diagrams are included as SVG files next to each article.
22 articles, newest first.
| Date |
Article |
Topics |
| 2026-09-24 |
I pointed an AI that doesn’t write at 6,800 search queries. Here’s what it found in our bookings. |
AI, CRO |
| 2026-07-08 |
Skills Compound: Why an AI Skill Library Is a Strategy, Not a Productivity Hack |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-07-07 |
From Six-Week Sprint to Tuesday Ship: What AI Does to Planning Cadence |
AI, Operations |
| 2026-07-02 |
Fix the Front Door First: A Conversion Playbook for Discovery Over Polish |
Analytics, Product |
| 2026-07-01 |
Pressure-Test the Spec Before You Build It: Synthetic Users as a PM Instrument |
AI, Product |
| 2026-06-30 |
Never Let AI Invent a Number: Wiring Content to the Live Source of Truth |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-06-25 |
The Gate That Refuses to Ship: Building QA the AI Can’t Talk Its Way Past |
AI, Quality |
| 2026-06-24 |
I Gave the AI a Browser: Turning Live-Page QA Into an Automated Pass |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-06-23 |
Trust, but Verify: Why I Make AI Reconcile Every Number Against the Source |
AI, Analytics |
| 2026-06-18 |
Specs Don’t Teach Taste: How I Trained AI on Design Judgment With a Visual Library |
AI, Design |
| 2026-06-17 |
When AI Does the Production, the Humans Move Up: Rewriting the Marketing-Ops Team |
AI, Operations |
| 2026-06-16 |
I Taught AI to Author Our Production Pages. My Role Became the Architect Above It. |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-06-15 |
From Clever Generalist to Production Teammate: Building a Custom AI Skill Library |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-06-14 |
The Fix Wasn’t the Feature, It Was the Front Door: Rebuilding ‘Help Me Choose’ (Part 2) |
Analytics, Product |
| 2026-06-14 |
What the AI Didn’t Know That I Did: Building Real Products With AI as a Domain Expert |
AI, Product |
| 2026-06-14 |
I Gave an AI Agent Publishing Access to My WordPress Site. Here Are the Four Walls I Hit. |
AI, Automation |
| 2026-06-14 |
We Built a Product Recommendation Quiz for VPS Hosting. Here’s What the Data Taught Us. |
Analytics, Product |
| 2026-06-14 |
AI Wrote 90% of the Code. I Caught 100% of the Mistakes That Would Have Shipped. |
AI, Engineering |
| 2026-06-14 |
AI Got to 80% on the Landing Page. The Last 20% Needed Domain Knowledge. |
AI, Engineering |
| 2026-06-14 |
Compressing Months Into Days: Rebuilding a Configurator With AI in a Week |
AI, Product |
| 2026-06-14 |
SOP Compliance ≠ Analytics Correctness |
Analytics, Engineering |
| 2026-06-14 |
I Ran 160 AI Shoppers Through Two Pricing Pages Before a Single Human Saw Either One |
AI, Experiments |
- jev-search-intent-classifier — sorts search queries by intent and product with Jev, the System One model from TypeSafe AI. It goes with the article I pointed an AI that doesn't write at 6,800 search queries.
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