Rakshith Mallikarjun
Product thinking

How I think, not just what I built.

Frameworks are only useful when they change a decision. These are the ones I actually run, and what they look like in practice.

Opportunity solution tree — live example

One outcome, mapped opportunities, competing solutions, and the cheapest experiment that could change my mind. Select an opportunity.

Outcome
Increase weekly active analysts
Candidate solutions
  • AI first-pass summary
  • Bulk document upload
  • Template library
Cheapest experiment

Shadow-run AI summaries on 100 historical assessments and measure analyst edit distance.

Product Discovery

Continuous, not a phase. Weekly customer contact, assumption mapping and small tests before commitments.

Jobs To Be Done

Products get hired for progress. I write the job statement before the feature list.

Customer Interviews

Past behaviour over future intent. Stories, not opinions. Never demo before you understand.

Opportunity Solution Trees

One outcome, mapped opportunities, competing solutions, cheapest experiment first.

Prioritisation

RICE for throughput, cost-of-delay for sequencing, and an explicit not-doing list to protect focus.

Roadmaps

Outcome themes with confidence levels — Now / Next / Later — never a dated feature list.

North Star Metrics

One metric that captures delivered value, decomposed into inputs each team can move.

Experimentation

Hypothesis, guardrail metrics, minimum detectable effect. Kill criteria agreed before launch.

Go To Market

Positioning, pricing, enablement and launch tiering built into the delivery plan, not bolted on.

Product Lifecycle

Introduce, scale, sustain, sunset. Deprecation is a product skill most teams never build.