Every product starts as a mess like this.

A normal Tuesday on a product manager's desk.

Sai Harsha Sadhu, product manager

I turn this into experiences people love to use, and pay for

    Hi, I'm Sai Harsha.

    A product manager with five years of 0→1 in health-tech, fintech and AI. Keep scrolling and I'll show you what that's made of.

    Part engineer.

    Electrical and electronics by degree. I read the API doc before the meeting, so I scope with engineers, not at them.

    Part designer.

    Self-taught, and 1,000+ screens in. A real screen on day one settles arguments that a paragraph never will.

    Mostly, the one who gets the room to agree.

    Strong opinions, one roadmap. I get everyone to the same table, decide what ships next, and stay till it does.

    How I think about product.

    Developers, users and the business each pull a product their own way. Product management is what flows between them, and holds the product in the middle.

    Developers. Can we build it?

    I work with engineers and designers, not upstream of them. I can read the API doc and push pixels in Figma, so we argue about the same thing and the argument stays short.

    Users. Will they love it?

    Nobody reads the PRD except us. I go where the product is used, the ICU, the back office, the sales call, and watch what people actually do.

    Business. Will it pay?

    If it doesn't sell, it doesn't survive. Sales, marketing and legal get a seat before launch, not a heads-up after it.

    Product management, around the product.

    It isn't a corner of its own. It is the fluid bit in the middle that touches all three, keeps them talking, and gets the product shipped.

    That's the expectation. Here's the room.

    Not three people. Eight. Engineering, design, users, marketing, sales and key accounts, operations, suppliers, and the founders and CXOs who sign off on all of it.

    Everyone is right, from where they sit.

    Each of them wants something reasonable. Together they want more than any team can build. Every yes is a no to someone else, and that cost is real.

    So the job is choosing.

    Weigh everyone's best interest. Pick which battles to fight, and when. Keep all eight pointed at the same strategy, satisfy as many as you can, and still get the product out. That's product management.

    try it yourself, just below

    The triangle: PMHQ's product management framework. The star: what it looks like on a Tuesday.

    Developersengineers & designers Users & customers Businesssales, marketing, legal Product management The product CXOs & foundersFounders EngineeringEng DesignDesign UsersUsers MarketingMarketing Sales & KAMSales OperationsOps SuppliersSuppliers

    your turn

    Run the room for one sprint.

    Ten asks will land on your desk from all eight people in the room. Every answer helps some of them and costs others, and anyone you ignore starts drifting away. Keep them all with you, and get the product out the door.

    8 stakeholders10 asksignore anyone and they drift

    Each spike grows when that person is happy. The yellow dot is your product: keep it near the middle.

    The work, up close.

    Five years, six teams. Each one opens as you reach it, or tap to open.

    the resume has the long version.

    Critical-care software running live inside hospital ICUs, with an AI layer in the clinical workflow. Promoted to PM, and won the Hira award on the way.

    • Radar, the ICU handover view: every patient, diagnosis and to-do on one screen.

    • The same handover view, the way hospitals first see it.

    • Assessments: RASS, GCS and fall-risk scores, tracked day by day for every patient.

    • Vitals: hourly charting from the bedside, with abnormal values flagged in red.

    • Orders: medications placed, signed and tracked from the patient file.

    • Notes: progress notes, summary, diagnosis and assessment in one view.

    Dialysis consultation platform, idea to launch in 4 weeks. ₹15L+ ARR and 300+ patient consults in the first three months.
    85% less handover time. An AI assistant drafts patient summaries for doctors managing 40+ patients a day.
    Half the nurses needed per shift, with AI workflow automation. Quality of care up 1.5×.
    3× daily adoption of the rebuilt mobile app: notes, orders, raising a Code Blue. NPS up 3.
    Invoice turnaround halved. A rebuilt billing module gives clients one view of the pricing logic.

    Laid the groundwork for Telangana's unified identity and access management platform.

    • Gurthimpu: one Telangana sign-in, by password, OTP, face or Aadhaar.

    A European fintech start-up building a B2B2C payments and billers aggregator.

    • Euro Bill Pay on mobile: find your biller, get notified when a bill is issued, pay with cards, banking or wallets.

    month 1month 3
    MVP conceptualised and delivered in 3 months, with the development team, including key functionality and product design.

    Led product on a blockchain-based B2B2C decentralised identity verification platform, and a job portal for a client.

    • Sovrin AI Assist: government services in Estonia, answered by chat.

    2,500+ applicants onboarded in 45 days. Each dot is fifty people.
    month 1month 2
    A European job portal, live in 2 months, leading the client's technology and design teams.

    An AI revenue-operations product, from nothing to a working release in front of unicorn clients.

    • RevGain: the revenue workspace, with the AI chat on the side.

    1. POC
    2. MVP
    3. Client demo
    POC and MVP in 4 months, then the first release presented to unicorn clients.
    120+ APIs specified with the developers and chief architect. A more modular, scalable system.
    60% faster digital onboarding for clients.
    Insights 75% quicker with a chat-based AI module that answers in text and charts.

    Consent-based data sharing, built from an empty repository. Close to three years, and three roles.

    • My Data My Consent: data sharing, simplified.

    • Share documents, financial and medical data with people and organisations, and get rewarded for it.

    • Consented, time-bound data sharing. Track and revoke any time, no questions asked.

    • MDMC Health: health records, synced and shared with any provider.

    • The organisation partner dashboard: consent requests, documents and API usage.

    1. Product designer
    2. PM & designer
    3. Product leader
    From the only designer in the room to the one leading the product.
    1,000+ screens across mobile, web and tablet, all from scratch. Each square is ten.
    40% less churn after fixing the usability of 50+ shipped features.
    • 85+ core features
    • 120+ PRDs
    • 30+ roadmaps
    • 1,500+ users
    • 3pilots run
    • 4partners signed
    Led developers, designers, testers and analysts, and built the design system and brand guide.

    Things I made on my own time.

    Mostly to find out if I could. They're only pinned up, so move them around if you like.

    HAUS social card: Run your PG like a pro, ₹29 per bed a month

    HAUS

    Property management for PG and hostel owners: an owner app, a resident portal and a free tier to start. Designed, built and shipped by me. Live, with a free tier and a Pro plan.

    Visit HAUS
    Moonfall's cover: a village at night under a crescent moon. A village wakes, and someone is already lying.

    Moonfall

    A Mafia-style party game with two modes, one for when you're all at the same table and one for when the group is spread out.

    Play it
    The Restaurant's cover: a restaurant at night with the kitchen and pantry in view. Learn how the internet actually works, one order at a time.

    The Restaurant

    How a website works, played out as a restaurant. The kitchen is the back-end, the waiter is the API, the pantry is the database. Not one piece of jargon.

    Open it
    ShyMe: a privacy focused, personal-data free, 100% genuine people, peer group dating platform.

    ShyMe

    Confessions and dating, but only inside your own circle. Matching is the easy part. The hard part is making honesty feel safe around people you'll see again on Monday.

    Still building it
    Cover of the Shoe Problem case study: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test

    The Shoe Problem

    A design-thinking case study on something most Indian homes live with: the shoes stay outside the door. Taken end to end, and published on Medium.

    Read it

    Where I picked it up.

    1. 2026 →

      Masters' Union, Gurugram

      PGP in Technology and Business Management

      • MU Scholarship for Technology Leaders
      • Elected President, Product Management Club
    2. 2022

      T-Hub, Lab32 · Hyderabad

      Go-to-Market Mastery, cohort 9

      • 4% acceptance rate
      • At the world's largest innovation centre
    3. 2019–20

      Indian School of Business · Hyderabad

      Technology Entrepreneurship Programme

      • Graded A
      • Top 1 of 84 teams across Telangana & AP
      • Led a team of 5 from idea to MVP
    4. 2017–21

      Vasavi College of Engineering, Osmania University

      B.E. Electrical & Electronics · 8.36

      • Young Leader Award, 6 of 800
      • Best Final Year Project
      • Vice President, E-Cell (65 members)

    From my camera roll.

    Work, wins, the people around them, and what I love when I'm not building. Scroll to travel, drag to look around.Scroll to travel, swipe sideways to look around.

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    Sai on stage at Masters' Union wearing the Product Management Club president's stole
    Elected president of the Product Management Club, Masters' Union.
    The Cloudphysician team, about twenty people, on a rooftop
    The Cloudphysician team. Most of those numbers are theirs too.
    Sai receiving the Hira award on stage
    Receiving the Hira award at Cloudphysician.
    Sai seated in an audience at T-Hub
    T-Hub, Lab32 cohort 9.
    Sai presenting to a room in a yellow shirt
    Running a session.
    A team working around a table with laptops
    Mid-argument. The useful kind.
    A packed room for a product design workshop at a WTF meetup
    Product design workshop, WTF meetup.
    A large group photo at The Product Folks meetup
    The Product Folks meetup at GrabChai.
    Group photo after a product design workshop
    After a product design workshop.
    Another full room at a product design workshop
    Product design workshop, round two.
    Sai holding a product design certificate with a colleague
    Product design, certified by Sapta.
    Sai under a Mercedes F1 car on display at Suria KLCC
    The real car Sir Lewis Hamilton drove. Suria KLCC.
    A bowl of ramen at Naru, with chashu, egg and greens
    Naru. Some bowls live up to the hype.
    Sai standing beside a lime green Lamborghini Huracán at night
    A Lamborghini Huracán, up close.
    Sai in conversation with a product leader at an event
    Meeting product leaders. The best way to learn is to ask.
    Sai and two others in front of The Product Folks backdrop
    The Product Folks unconference.
    Selfie of Sai with Papa Opus
    With Papa Opus.
    The round glass Apple Store in Bangkok under a wooden canopy
    The Apple Store in Bangkok. Epic is the right word.
    Sai after a 5K run, wearing his bib and finisher medal
    Ran a 5K. Medal earned.
    Sai with design leaders from Myntra, Swiggy and 100x at an event
    With the design leads of Myntra, Swiggy and 100x.
    Sai flexing inside a Cult Champions ring
    Cult champion. Some fitness wins.
    A Gogeta action figure standing on a desk
    What's on my desk. Some days need a Super Saiyan.
    Sai with designer Atul Khola
    Meeting Atul Khola, one of the designers I look up to.
    Selfie with a red Ferrari Formula 1 car on display
    Is that the SF-26?
    Selfie with a red Le Mans endurance race car on display
    A Le Mans car. An engineering marvel.
    Sai on a jet ski cutting across green water below limestone cliffs
    Cutting through deep-water waves.
    Sai at the HYROX mini challenge finisher wall
    HYROX mini challenge, done. About 20% of a full HYROX.
    Sai and friends with their motorbikes and a car on a road trip
    Road trip: checked.
    Sai running a session for a room of people
    Giving back some of what I've learnt.
    A collage of Sai meeting people at a fitness event
    Did I really meet them?
    Sai scuba diving underwater with two other divers
    Under the sea, in the deep end.
    Sai in a wetsuit and mask on a boat, cliffs behind him
    Definitely a beach guy.
    Sai with a fellow creator at a meetup in front of a HYROX wall
    At a creators meetup.
    Sai and his batchmates in suits at Masters' Union
    Unionising, Masters' Union style.
    Sai speaking into a mic in a packed auditorium
    That's a good shot. Mic in hand.
    A person standing on top of an off-road jeep against mountains and clouds
    Off-roading to the mountains: checked.
    Sai aiming at a target at a shooting range
    That's bullseye.
    In Timefilm · 2011
    3 Idiotsfilm · 2009
    Suitsseries
    The Big Bang Theoryseries
    The Good Doctorseries
    The Founderfilm · 2016
    Super Pumpedseries
    Avengers: Infinity Warfilm · 2018
    F1film · 2025

    on repeat. I'd rewatch these forever.

    pins I'd wear anywhere

    weekends, mostly at meetups

    People I'd love to work with someday.

    A short and very ambitious list.

    1. Nithin Kamath

      Zerodha

      Built India's biggest broker without chasing ads or VC money. I want to learn how you say no that often and still win.

    2. James Dyson

      Dyson

      5,127 prototypes before the vacuum worked. That is my kind of stubborn.

    3. Steve Jobs

      Apple

      Cared about the parts nobody sees. That is the bar I hold my own screens to.

    4. Michael Phelps

      23 Olympic golds

      The medals were won in the hours nobody watched. I think about shipping the same way.

    5. S. S. Rajamouli

      Baahubali, RRR

      Got the whole world to watch a Telugu film. Scale, craft and story, all at once.

    6. Robert Downey Jr.

      Iron Man

      Tony Stark is half the reason I want to build tech that makes a human super. And it is the best comeback story there is.

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