# Sarang Patel

> Product leader and builder based in Texas: AI workflow consulting and hands-on product leadership for teams that build with AI, not just talk about it.

Sarang Patel is a product leader, builder, and operator with 15+ years of experience across fintech, B2B SaaS, and consumer platforms. He works embedded with early and mid-stage teams to ship real systems, automate operational workflows, and modernize how product teams operate using AI. The practice is built around a core belief: the "information mover" PM is being automated out, and the leverage now belongs to builders who automate their own roles first, exercise system-level judgment, and redesign how the team works — not just manage the roadmap.

## Pages

- [Home](/): Front page with practice overview, experience, focus areas, background, projects preview, and contact. Covers Sarang's philosophy on AI-assisted product leadership, focus areas including internal tooling and operational systems, a fifteen-year background spanning CSID (acquired by Experian), Hello Alice, Scout, Charles Schwab, and Jackrabbit Mobile, a preview of three AI case studies, and contact details including email and booking.
- [Portfolio](/portfolio): Selected case studies and side projects — applied AI work including invoicing agents, document extraction, and onboarding systems. Three primary case studies: a natural-language invoicing agent that cut billing prep by 95%, a document extraction pipeline that turned 100+ legal documents into 1,200+ platform-ready payout rows, and an AI runbook generator that reduced onboarding repetition by 80%. Also includes secondary side projects: Word Ball (a daily sports word puzzle), VC (Thirteen) (a digital Vietnamese card game), and a Harris County government website redesign.
- [Work With Me](/work-with-me): Four services — fractional product leadership, AI workflow consulting, rapid prototyping, and product strategy advisory. Details engagement models, ideal team sizes, deliverables, and the operating principle behind the practice.

## Services

- [Fractional Product Leadership](/work-with-me): 3 to 6 month embedded engagements for pre-Series B teams (5–25 people). Senior strategic execution without hiring a full-time product executive. Covers roadmap definition, opportunity prioritization, delivery velocity, stakeholder alignment, product operations, and AI workflow audits. Deliverables include product strategy, sprint and process optimization, AI workflow audits, product discovery, KPI alignment, and team operating cadence.
- [AI Workflow & Operations Consulting](/work-with-me): 4 to 10 week sprint-format engagements for ops-heavy SaaS, CX teams, and internal platforms. Maps operational systems from the ground up, redesigns workflows before layering AI, and introduces practical AI in the seams. Covers internal AI copilots, documentation and knowledge management, customer support workflows, sales enablement, product operations, research synthesis, and automation opportunities.
- [Rapid AI Prototyping](/work-with-me): 1 to 4 week per-concept engagements for founders and PMs validating new directions. From idea to working proof-of-concept in days instead of months using modern AI tooling and lightweight agentic workflows. Covers AI-enabled product concepts, MVP workflows, internal tools, agent experiments, prompt systems, UX prototypes, AI-assisted onboarding, and recommendation systems.
- [Product Strategy & Advisory](/work-with-me): Monthly ongoing retainer for founders and CPOs navigating ambiguity. A pragmatic operator perspective grounded in execution, not just frameworks. Covers product-market fit, prioritization, team structure, product operations, user onboarding, platform strategy, AI adoption planning, and cross-functional alignment.

## Optional

- [Book a call](https://book.vimcal.com/p/sarangpatel/30mins): Schedule a 30-minute strategy call.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarangpatel1/): Professional profile and updates.