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Dhruv Bhatia

Product leader · AI builder

14 years building products. Now I build the AI too.

Lead product manager and 2x founder across B2B SaaS, consumer and enterprise. I design AI agents, build them, and ship them to production. Open to FDPM and FDE roles, and taking select consulting projects.

Dhruv Bhatia, smiling, arms crossed, wearing a dark polo shirt

Product at

  • SocialPilot
  • ClearGov
  • Alida
  • Ola
  • ixigo

Open to full-time and consulting roles

Hiring a product lead or forward deployed engineer?
Let's talk.

  1. Forward Deployed Product Manager
  2. Forward Deployed Engineer
  3. Senior Product Manager, AI
  4. Consulting / freelance projects

Consulting

What I build for you

For startups and mid-market teams adding AI. Fixed scope, clear deliverable.

  • Agent build sprint

    One agent for one workflow, shipped into your stack with an eval suite and a runbook your team can own.

  • Eval and reliability audit

    A test harness for the agent you already have, a ranked list of where it breaks, and fixes for the worst of it.

  • Fractional AI product lead

    Part-time product leadership for teams adding AI: what to build, how to scope it, and how to get it shipped.

Small business? I also run AI Agents Dojo, managed AI receptionists and agents.

Work

Things I've built, end to end.

Demo deployments built to show how I work, not client engagements.

Voice agent · Retell

Med spa receptionist

Answers calls, handles treatment questions, books appointments.

Voice agent · Retell

Hotel front desk

Availability, reservations and guest questions, around the clock.

Claude Managed Agents

Marketing agent

Reads search data, proposes content, drafts it for review.

Vapi · TypeScript

Voice agent eval harness

13 test cases run against a booking agent before every change ships.

About

Product leader who ships the code.

14 years in product across B2B SaaS, consumer and enterprise, and two companies founded. I studied Computer Engineering at UIUC, and these days I build the AI products I design: voice agents, agent platforms, and the evals that keep them honest. Based in Vancouver, previously Toronto.

  • Claude
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Retell
  • Vapi
  • Grok Voice
  1. 2024 to now

    Founder · AI consultant

    Running LocalPanda, an AI local-SEO platform, and AI Agents Dojo, building and deploying AI agents for clients.

  2. 2025 to 2026

    Senior Product Manager · ClearGov

  3. 2023 to 2024

    Lead Product Manager · SocialPilot

  4. 2020 to 2023

    Founder & CEO · Casa UGC

  5. 2019 to 2020

    Product Manager, Enterprise APIs · Alida

  6. Earlier

    Product at Ola, ixigo · Software Engineer at NetApp

  7. Education

    UIUC · B.S. Computer Engineering

Full history on LinkedIn

Videos

Building in public.

YouTube channel
  • Building a production voice agent for a med spa: architecture, evals, what broke

  • How a PM scopes an AI agent before writing any code

  • How I test voice agents before they talk to customers

Hiring, or have a project? Let's talk.