Iris Lens: Practical AI Workflow

This episode explores how AI is reshaping the PM landscape — from navigating career transitions into product to helping mid–senior PMs evolve their skillsets and stay competitive in an AI-first world. Panelists include Abid Ladhani, co-founder of Insightfull.ai and former product lead at Coinbase and Wealthsimple, and Raheem Mussa, co-founder of Easy Appointment Booking and former PM at Amazon. Hosted by Iris Guo, Podcast Host at Iris Lens & prev AI PM at Zynga, Scale AI, Microsoft, and Google X, and a Career Coach for 4+ years.

An introduction to Iris Lens Live: a live podcasting community for Toronto product builders. We’ve moved past the "AI hype" to focus on the practical scaffolding required to build and scale professional-grade systems. Iris Guo is a seasoned AI Product Manager and she’s passionate about empowering the community with AI upskilling. She has worked at Scale AI, Zynga, Arteria AI & Studdy AI over the past 4 years and she recognized the barrier for beginners to get into AI workflows. Therefore, she founded Iris Lens to educate product builders on AI tools and workflows by interviewing product leaders.

Welcome to the second episode of Iris Lens! In this episode, host Iris sits down with Saam, Co-Founder and CPO at EvenUp, fresh off their recent series E funding.As AI makes engineering exponentially faster, the role of the Product Manager is undergoing a massive shift. Saam breaks down why the future of product management relies on building with precision, taste, and a highly opinionated point of view.We dive deep into the technical and tactical realities of deploying AI agents in high-stakes industries like legal tech, handling complex guardrails, and why the "human-in-the-loop" model is moving toward advanced evaluations and emotional connections.

In the inaugural episode of Iris Lens, host Iris sits down with Hassan Khan, co-founder and CEO of Todaq Micro, to unpack what it really means to build in the age of AI agents. Hassan breaks down the difference between AI tools and true autonomous agents, cuts through the hype to identify where real value is being created, and shares what it was like to spend years building machine-native payments infrastructure before the world was ready for it.They cover everything from how beginners should approach building their first agent, to the security risks of giving AI systems too much access, to why Hassan believes the agentic economy could finally level the playing field for small businesses — no Google, no Stripe, no app store tax required.Hassan also opens up about lessons learned as a founder: moving too slowly when speed matters most, building in stealth for too long, and why learning sales early might be the single most valuable thing any builder can do.Whether you're an AI-curious newcomer or a developer deep in the weeds, this episode is a grounded, honest look at where agents are headed — and how to build on them without getting burned.