Product Designer AI-native products GTM Strategy

I turned a 60-second wait into onboarding that builds momentum.

First or only designer everywhere I've worked. I shape the strategy and design the screens that carry it out.

Illustration of Shantanu at his laptop, with three thought bubbles above him showing an affinity map of sticky notes, a product interface mockup, and a rising growth chart, representing strategy, craft, and growth.
Product · AI · growth

Traction Studio AI

The AI-native founder platform I'm the sole product designer on at Codefi, plus the growth work I took on alongside it.

The loading screen became the onboarding.

Five slides, timed to the exact wait

Engineering needed 5–60 seconds to build a founder's workspace. They asked for a loading screen. I shipped a 5-slide walkthrough that used the exact window they needed and oriented people to a surface they'd never seen.

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Four modules, one component system.

The paid product, built from scratch

The entire paid surface, 0→1, with our PO (sales, ops, investor relations, MVP tracking, agents) on one component system, down to full light/dark theming.

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Two systems, neither of them a roadmap item.

Tooling I built to move faster

A token system built before a line of code existed, and an MCP-based content engine now running in production. Different projects, same instinct.

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Copy changes stopped being dev tickets.

Website & CMS rebuild

Moved Codefi off a hardcoded site with no CMS onto Framer, with four live content collections the team updates themselves.

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Two written proposals, both adopted.

A strategy the company adopted, twice

Wrote the GTM thesis after our lander drew 2,500 views and zero conversions; the team adopted it. Later traced through analytics that our AI-drafted content wasn't landing with the B2B audience. I'm leading that rewrite now.

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60%+ attribution. 5–20 → ~135 turnout.

Ads that filled four in-person hackathons

Ad strategy, creative, and budget across Vibeathon, Codefi Foundation's AI hackathon series in Joplin, St. Joseph, Springfield and Cape Girardeau. Also built the vibeathon.us brand and visual system.

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0→1 product design

ConGenius

Sole designer at an early-stage construction SaaS for three years, from ideation through 1.0.

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