AA Amir AlikhanzadehProduct thesis
NOW BUILDING AI agents PRODUCT MODE Opportunity intelligence BASED IN Toronto NOW BUILDING AI agents PRODUCT MODE Opportunity intelligence

Founder-operator · Product leader · Opportunity intelligence

Experience, evidence, and the search for leverage.

OIE is the system I use to reason across what I have built, where I have operated, and which future opportunities are most worth pursuing.

Opportunity IntelligenceEvidence view
Consumer SocialCo-founder · 0 → 45M+ users
Food TechProduct growth
Digital MarketplaceProduct growth

Experience

Selected Experience

A career built across founding, consumer products, marketplaces, and growth — the operating context behind OIE.

MadLipz Co-Founder & CEOBuilt the product, company, and growth system from zero. 2015—23

Scope: product, company, and growth system · Problem space: consumer social behavior · Operating mode: founder / 0→1

Sorare Staff Product ManagerReworked how new users enter and understand a complex consumer marketplace. 2023—25

Scope: onboarding and new product experiences · Problem space: complex consumer marketplace · Operating mode: senior IC

CookUnity Principal Product Manager, GrowthApplied product systems thinking to activation, lifecycle, and marketplace growth. 2025—26

Scope: activation, lifecycle, and growth systems · Problem space: marketplace growth · Operating mode: principal product

These experiences form part of the evidence OIE uses to understand where Amir can create the most leverage next.

Current theses

Explorations shaped by prior evidence and current opportunity signals.

Discuss a build
02
PrototypeFintech automation
risk
gate

Trading systems

Spot Guard

A local-first automation system designed around visible intent, hard limits, approvals, and accountability.

03
ConceptConsumer social
remix
graph

Media intelligence

Remix Network

A concept for treating audience reinterpretation as product signal, not just engagement.

04
PrototypeAI developer tooling
agent
os

Agent infrastructure

Agent Workspace

A workspace thesis around portable memory, reusable skills, and clearer handoffs between AI-assisted tools.

05
ExplorationAI knowledge systems
memory
map

Knowledge workspace

Memory Map

A knowledge system shaped around decisions, reusable context, and retrieval instead of passive storage.

Recent thinking

Product notes before they earn roadmap weight.

Send a signal

Short notes on opportunity signals, product constraints, and where current ideas may have leverage. Anonymized by default.

Curated manually
01Consumer AI

Approval Is A Product Surface

For consumer AI, the handoff between recommendation and action may matter more than the model's confidence.

02Risk UX

Friction Can Be A Trust Primitive

In high-consequence flows, speed is not always the mature product choice. The right pause can make automation usable.

03Social Signal

Culture Is A Retention Signal

When users reinterpret a format, they expose the product's real affordance: what was easy to copy, bend, and repeat.

04AI Workflows

Memory Changes The Unit Of Work

Agent products become more useful when they preserve decision context, not just conversation history.

05GTM Agents

Depth Beats Org Chart

A chief-of-staff bot with real tool access compounds — but only if agents stay few and deep, style and state stay disciplined, and every CRM write or send stays behind a human gate.

Operating context

What sits behind the opportunity engine.

Amir Alikhanzadeh is a founder-operator and product leader based in Toronto. The work sits across consumer behavior, activation, marketplaces, creator products, growth systems, and AI-assisted workflows.

OIE connects that operating history with current ideas, constraints, and market signals. The goal is to build a sharper way to reason about where experience can become leverage.