Capital trust
$1M+
Kai John-Blunch
AI product builder with market judgment.
As a Pier cofounder, I build AI-enabled workflows, prototypes, and decision systems with product sense, business context, and execution. My product-management work spans roadmap, discovery, QA, workflow mapping, and product judgment that turn messy business context into usable systems, especially customer-facing AI workflows that have to reach trusted live use.
Founder and market proof
Proof I built from capital, customers, and market tests.
Early-stage work only matters when it improves what a team can decide. I help earn capital trust, stay close to customer reality, and use market signals to decide what is worth building next.
Customer contact
100+
customer conversations across product iteration
Partner commitment
24%
pilot-partnership conversion
Selected proof
Selected PM case studies, viewed through the skills behind the work.
Inspect the work by roadmap, discovery, workflow design, agile cadence, metrics, launch learning, and prioritization.
Choose the skill you want to inspect. Each view shows a product-management skill through real Pier operating work a team could understand, judge, or use.
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Lens in focus
Roadmap and prioritization
Case study · Roadmap Shaping Through Product Evidence
Turning launch uncertainty into roadmap evidence
I shape Pier's roadmap around evidence requests: value-map truth, SMB positioning, candidate-side validation, website copy, and MVP readiness before external users touch the product.
Prioritize the evidence that should change the launch decision.
Open case studyCase study · Pilot Demos And Go-Live Learning
Letting live product evidence update the next priority
SmartApply delivery changes what the team can ask partners to trust, so demo and follow-up work become part of prioritization.
Use live evidence to update the next build decision.
Open case studyCase study · User Interviews To Engineering Priorities
Using interviews to sharpen build priorities
I turn user-interview output into product implications the team can use when deciding what belongs in the next build cycle.
Use discovery to change the roadmap.
Open case studyCase study · Workflow Mapping For Construction Operations
Narrowing a broad direction into a testable product path
I help move the team from broad procurement language toward a bounded subcontractor-activation workflow that can be tested safely.
Prioritize the workflow specific enough to test.
Open case studyCase study · Daily Agile Rituals And Team Coordination
Turning priorities into visible owner decisions
The cadence makes priorities operational: owner, next action, due date, and follow-through rather than another round of planning debate.
Make priority decisions executable.
Open case studyWriting
Selected writing
Essay · June 5, 2026
The Next $1T Company
An essay about AI services, insurance claims, and who gets to define completed work.
Read essayEssay · June 4, 2026
The Industrialization of Cognition
An essay about AI as a production system: who owns the tools that shape thought work, what happens to human skill, and why concentration and access have to be understood together.
Read essayContact
Start a conversation
Start a product-management, AI workflow, or customer-deployment conversation when the work needs discovery, workflow design, live-use readiness, stakeholder communication, and customer confidence around a concrete system, prototype, workflow, or product surface.
Agent workflow
Watch my agent build this website and QA its own work.
A sped-up preview of a requirements-bound system: the agent reads the plan, executes a task, updates the tracker, verifies against the requirements, and repeats that loop until the work is complete. Only then does it open the PR.
- 01 Read plan
- 02 Execute task
- 03 Update tracker
- 04 Verify against requirements
- 05 Open PR