Abdul Hannan ShaikhAbdul Hannan ShaikhTechnical Product Manager

Product advisory for API and
developer-platform teams.

Two weeks on the decision that has been open longest. It’s a written recommendation with the trade-off named.

Write to meOr book a 30-minute call

Two weeks, $2,500, fixed. Scope agreed before anything starts.

Four calls, with what each one cost.

Every advisory site says it has judgement. This one publishes the calls, including the two that didn’t work.

Moved
Left product ownership for product management, four months after the lending MVP shipped with two of Pakistan's largest banks.
Paid off
Held the roadmap for a quarter to instrument the product, then re-prioritised against what the funnel actually showed.
Held
Shipped llms.txt generation to every customer deployment of the developer portal, for a spec no major AI lab had agreed to read.
Live
Built A[P]Iaudit outside work and published it free and open source, with no signup and the rubric public.

The full record, with what actually happened in each.

A recommendation, not a workshop.

Three things, in the order they turn out to be useful.

Product advisory

Two weeks, $2,500 fixed

One engagement at a time.

  • Which call on your roadmap has been open longest. That’s the conversation.
  • Your specs, your engineers, and how an agent reads your surface.
  • The trade-off named in writing, with the reasoning attached.

For API products and developer platforms. Not code, and not a growth team.

Write to meOr book a 30-minute call

Two sentences about the decision is plenty. Thirty minutes if you’d rather talk, no charge either way.

Narrower question, and you already know it’s about the API surface? The one-week API agent readiness read is $1,200.

Questions people actually ask

What does a product advisor actually do in two weeks?

Reads what you have, talks to the people who know, and writes down the call with the trade-off named. Specs, the funnel if there's one, and your engineers, because the constraint is usually in the build and not in the roadmap. You get a recommendation you can act on.

How is this different from hiring a consultancy?

A consultancy sells a team and a process, and the engagement grows. This is one person, one decision, two weeks, and a fixed fee agreed before anything starts. That's the whole shape of it. There's no discovery phase to buy first, and nothing to extend into.

Who is it for, and who is it not for?

For API products, developer platforms, and teams wiring an agent into something that already has customers. Not for code, and not for running a growth team. If the decision is really about pricing or distribution rather than product, I'll say so on the call and point you at someone better.

What if the recommendation is one we disagree with?

Then you've got the reasoning in writing and can argue with it, which is more than most engagements leave behind. The record on the home page includes two calls that didn't work and says so, because a decision practice that only publishes its wins is marketing.

What does it cost?

Two weeks, $2,500, fixed. Scope is agreed before anything starts. A 30-minute call costs nothing and you'll leave it with a straight read either way.