Debashis Nayak

I build AI products and write about what works.

Founder of Products Decoded, Jobtune, and Astrika. Ex-MoneyLion, where I built a $9.6M ARR business unit. Ten years turning ideas into products people pay for.

Debashis Nayak
10+
Years building products, since 2013
$9.6M
ARR business unit I built and led
100+
Products shipped for clients in my founder years
23M+
Users on the platforms my products ran on
3
Products live today: Jobtune, Astrika, Holt

Engineer, then founder, now product.

I started as a software engineer, learning how to build. Then I spent years as a founder, learning what to build and why. Product management is where those two meet, and it is where I sit today.

The thesis that survived every company since: ship something real, get a paying user inside 90 days, and use the thing every day.

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Ten years of shipping, across fintech, logistics, and AI.

MoneyLion 2024 to 2026
Senior Principal Product Manager, Business Unit Head

Led product across teams in the United States and Malaysia, for a platform of 23M+ users. Built a $9.6M ARR business unit and an industry-first advertising engine embedded inside Microsoft Copilot, where the conversation itself becomes a channel that drives clicks and revenue.

CoolHax Labs 2013 to 2021
Founder and CEO, product studio

Founded and ran a product studio out of college. Grew it to a 50+ person team and shipped 100+ products across fintech, IoT, automotive, and edtech. Served 100+ business clients, including government.

SabPaisa 2022 to 2023
Senior PM, Indian payments and reconciliation

Led the RBI licensing process and rebuilt the product suite for compliance. Built Split Calculator, an automated reconciliation product that replaced a fully manual settlement process.

Intugine Technologies 2021 to 2022
Senior PM, logistics SaaS

Built ePOD and Control Center, an ML-powered predictive logistics platform handling rate calculation, delivery-timeline prediction, and tracking in one dashboard.

Launch Pad 2021 to present
PM trainer, independent

Coached 50+ aspiring product managers with a 95%+ placement rate. The foundation for the bootcamp.

Live AI demos for campuses and teams.

KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Aug 2026
Get Hired with AI: a demo, not a lecture

300+ students watched one AI system roast a fresher resume, rewrite it without inventing a fact, hunt real openings, and build per-company application kits, all on screen. Hosted with KSAC Society Konection + Industry Talks.

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Holt, my open-source agent OS. Building now

A personal AI assistant you run on your own machine. Any LLM, the skills you choose, and a private memory you can actually see and navigate. Free and open, MIT licensed.

  • Memory you can see and edit as files
  • Any LLM: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or local
  • It remembers on its own inside Claude Code
  • A wiki, a graph, skills, and MCP built in

The Lab. Play one now

Six small browser experiments: physics toys, generative sketches, and two games. Each one is a single HTML file that runs the moment it loads, with the source open on GitHub. I build them to find out whether an idea feels good before it becomes a product.

You get one click. It sets off a blast, and anything that drifts into it goes off too.

I teach this, live.

Two-day masterclasses and cohorts where leaders and students build working AI agent systems, hands-on. The first Builders Edition ran in August; the next batch is forming.

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Operator notes, in your inbox.

Weekly notes on AI, product, and building. I tell this list about new bootcamp cohorts first.