001 / POSITIONING

I build AI-powered products
people trust.

Product leader at Google's AI Search infrastructure. Former Amazon, Marriott, Walgreens. Twenty years shipping consumer products at scale.

ask_adam — zsh
5 messages / session
# AI twin — grounded on Adam's career context — responds in first person
adam@MacBook-Pro ~ %  adam --init --grounding="career_context" --voice="first_person"
I built Google's AI grounding infrastructure for Search. Before that: Amazon Appstore, Marriott, Walgreens. Ask me anything — or email the real one.
# Try: "Why are you leaving infrastructure?" · "How would you launch a new Claude product?" · "What's your management style?"
adam@MacBook-Pro ~ % 
This is an AI twin trained on Adam's career context — not a guarantee of accuracy. Email him for the real conversation.
What Grounding Does Interactive Demo

In May 2024, AI Overviews told users to put glue on pizza and eat rocks. Since then, teams like mine at Google have built the infrastructure that prevents this category of failure. Grounding is how AI learns to cite its sources.

20+Years shipping product
50%Reduction in ungrounded AI responses at Google
16%Factuality improvement across Google Search
$1B+Revenue attributed to myWalgreens platform
Selected Work 01 / 04
More Work 05 / 09
Point of View Essay · April 2026
POV

Product in 2026

What changes when software is no longer the bottleneck

The cost of turning an idea into working software has collapsed in 18 months. A PM with good judgment and a Claude subscription can ship what used to take a six-engineer team six weeks. I know because I do it.

Here's what has actually changed: implementation is no longer the rate-limiter. Good ideas are. The new bottleneck is "should we build this?" — which is a taste problem, a judgment problem, and a customer-understanding problem.

The PMs who win in the next five years are the ones who can see the right problem before anyone else, generate quality ideas faster than their peers, build the MVP themselves, and drive the executive alignment to ship.

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Career Themes 20 years · 4 domains

AI Infrastructure & Trust

ModelInfraPlatform

Consumer AI & Personalization

ApplicationConsumerML

Mobile Product at Scale

ConsumerMobileScale

Strategy & Advisory

EnterpriseAdvisory
Outside of Work Bigfoot · DJ

Outside of work, I DJ under the name Bigfoot. Twenty years of digging through crates and playing sets around New York. Tell me a vibe and I'll find you something to play.