Prioritized AI bets
What to build, defer, or stop—with the assumptions and evidence behind each choice.
Industrial AI product strategy
Your AI roadmap has to work in the field. Not just the pitch deck.
I help founders and product leaders in energy and industrial software choose the right AI bets and turn them into a practical roadmap.
Hari Dutt · 20+ years in field operations, software, and AI
Illustrative data-center scenario
Power demand rises.
Power demand rises.
What happens next?
Some workloads can move.
Customer deadlines still matter.
Synthetic data · Time compressed
01 / Observed signal
Observed headroom: 6% · Narrowing
The engagementA clear decision.
A clear decision.
A roadmap you can use.
Choose your first AI bet, unblock field adoption, or reset an overloaded roadmap. We work through the operating constraints together.
Workflow & decision rights
Where AI recommends or acts, what operators control, and how the product earns trust.
A 90-day roadmap
Sequenced work, clear owners, and evidence gates for the next investment decision.
Experience I bring
Product leadership at operating scale.
The adoption and field-deployment results below come from my work at a previous firm, before founding Turing Pilgrim.
50+ operators
Field software scaled to 7,000+ users across the U.S., Canada, and Argentina.
Prior-role case study6 weeks
Down from 6+ months through a redesigned deployment approach for complex field environments.
Prior-role case study30–50% less manual work
Through OCR, route optimization, and workflow redesign.
The AI execution story"He combines technical depth, business acumen, and exceptional communication skill in a way that drives product initiatives forward."
Product Executive · Energy Operations Software
Latest essays
Notes on AI, systems, and operational reality.
October 6, 2026
A flexible data center starts with the customer contract
A scheduler can move a workload. A dependable grid commitment starts with knowing whose deadline can move with it.
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