Currently at Schmidt Futures, New York
✦ Open to Contracting

Hi, I'm Prapthi —
AI Product Manager
& builder.

I build AI products at the intersection of technology and social impact — from grants management systems to responsible AI tools for vulnerable communities. I'm passionate about shipping things that matter.

Prapthi Agarwala

Builder at the intersection of AI & impact

I'm a rotational AI Product Manager at Schmidt Futures, where I've shipped products across AI safety, climate tech, and social impact. My work spans from founding PM on a grants management system to designing RAG tools that save social workers 10+ hours a week.

I hold a dual degree in Computer Science (H.BSc) and Business (H.BA) from Western University and Ivey Business School — which means I speak both product and engineering fluently.

Outside work: I believe the best products come from deep curiosity about people and systems.

🏎 Formula 1 obsessive 🍜 Food blogger @foodieprapz 🐶 Dog sitter extraordinaire 🌆 Sustainable cities nerd 🇨🇦 Canadian in New York
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AI-Native PM

Hands-on with LLMs, RAG pipelines, MCP, fine-tuning, and responsible AI deployment across regulated sectors.

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Impact-Driven

Every product I've shipped serves a mission — from climate data platforms to AI tools for vulnerable communities.

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Technical Depth

CS background + Python, ML/DS skills mean I can collaborate deeply with engineers and own technical trade-offs.

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Western University & Ivey

H.BSc Computer Science + H.BA Business Administration, Western University & Ivey Business School

How I work

01

Start with the person, not the product

Every project I've shipped started with deep discovery — 25+ social workers at Nava, 25+ reservoir managers at UC Berkeley. I do the listening first.

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AI should earn trust, not assume it

I've designed guardrails for vulnerable populations, authored responsible AI frameworks, and mapped safety gaps across the full AI lifecycle. Responsible deployment isn't a checkbox — it's a design principle.

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Build for where it needs to go, not just where it is

RAG tools scaled to 10+ state agencies. Data platforms designed for 8 HiMAT regions. I architect for scale on day one, even when shipping an MVP.

A few numbers that matter

$5M+
Strategic AI investment allocation informed through research & founder interviews
~$500K
Annual value delivered per agency via RAG tools for social workers
10%
ML model accuracy improvement for snowpack prediction using LiDAR data
300+
Attendees at SheHacks — Canada's largest all-female & non-binary hackathon

Selected work

Schmidt Futures — Enterprise Tech

Nov 2025 – Present

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0-to-1 Grants Management System

Founding PM on a first-of-its-kind grants management system, reporting directly to the CTO. Designed an MCP-forward agentic tool that connects an LLM to live grants data — building a domain-specific skills layer to encode workflows and enable natural language querying across platforms through a custom UI. Managing a cross-functional global team across Asia and North America.

First-of-its-kind internal system — defined product vision, roadmap, and requirements from ground up
0-to-1 MCP / Agentic AI LLM Founding PM

Office of Eric Schmidt — AI Safety

May 2025 – Nov 2025

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AI Safety Lifecycle White Paper & Investment Framework

Authored a white paper mapping the complete AI safety lifecycle from pre- to post-deployment across model and application layers. Conducted gap analysis identifying underinvested intervention areas. Ran 20+ founder interviews across AI safety organizations to assess technical maturity, research direction, and policy integration — distilling insights into an investment framework focused on alignment, verifiability, and resilience.

$5M+ strategic investment allocation informed by the research framework
AI Safety Strategy Research Investment

UC Berkeley — Data Science & Environment

Aug 2024 – Apr 2025

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LiDAR-Powered Snowpack ML Model & Data Platform

Developed and fine-tuned an ML model leveraging LiDAR data to estimate snowpack depth for California water resource planning. Led discovery with 25+ reservoir managers to define the product vision for a centralized data platform. Created interactive Figma prototypes balancing immediate utility with long-term scalability across 8 HiMAT regions.

10% improvement in prediction accuracy over existing methods — enabling better planning for millions of Californians
ML / LiDAR Climate Tech User Research Figma

Nava Labs

Nov 2023 – Jul 2024

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RAG Tools for Benefits Access

Architected and launched end-to-end RAG tools enabling faster benefits access for vulnerable populations. Led discovery with 25+ social workers to identify highest-impact use cases while establishing ethical guardrails for AI deployment. Authored a research framework assessing AI suitability in vulnerable environments — informing design decisions for 3 subsequent features. Designed for scalability across 10+ state agencies.

10.5 hours saved weekly per social worker — ~$500K annual value per agency
RAG Social Impact Responsible AI User Research

Beyond the day job

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AI Climate Decision Support Tool

Built and deployed a climate decision support tool for UK policy experts using Claude Code, Replit, base44, and n8n — retrieving and synthesizing scientific literature into catastrophic scenario plans.

Renaissance Philanthropy · Jun 2025 – Present

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Global Climate Challenge

Founded a climate tech challenge connecting 50+ technologists with ocean scientists to solve ocean data standardization. Secured $35,000 in funding from Eric Schmidt through strategic stakeholder management.

Founder · Apr 2023 – Dec 2023

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SheHacks — Canada's Largest Women in Tech Hackathon

Scaled SheHacks from a small event to 300+ attendees (300% growth) as Chairperson of the Women in Technology Society. Raised $32,000 in sponsorships.

Women in Technology Society · 2018 – 2023

Where I've worked

Schmidt Futures Sept 2023 – Present

Product Manager — Rotations in AI Safety, Climate Tech & Social Impact

  • Founding PM on first-of-its-kind grants management system, directly reporting to CTO
  • Authored AI safety lifecycle white paper; informed $5M+ strategic investment allocation
  • Fine-tuned ML model on LiDAR data improving snowpack prediction accuracy by 10%
  • Launched RAG tools delivering ~$500K annual value per social service agency
Tesla Summer 2022

Product Manager, Engineering Automation Team · Fremont, CA

  • Led complete product lifecycle of the largest application release in team history — the Should Cost Platform, a first-principles costing tool projected to deliver $1M in cost savings in year one
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The LEADER Project 2021 – Present

Alumni Board Member, Impact Lead

  • Trained entrepreneurs in Nepal to envision and launch new ventures through a business foundations curriculum

What I work with

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AI & Product
AI Product Strategy LLM Evaluation Responsible AI RAG Pipelines MCP / Agentic AI Technical Roadmapping PRD Writing Stakeholder Alignment User Research UX/UI
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Data Science & ML
Python (Advanced) NumPy SciPy Pandas SQL Tableau R Model Fine-tuning
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Engineering & Tools
HTML/CSS (Advanced) Java (Advanced) VBA (Advanced) Flask ReactJS MongoDB Bootstrap C
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PM & Build Tools
Figma JIRA Claude Code Replit n8n base44 Fellou Wireframing

What I'm thinking about

How agentic systems change the trust model between users and AI products — and what new design patterns that demands

Whether AI safety research is moving fast enough relative to capability scaling, and where the biggest intervention gaps actually are

What "good" looks like for AI deployment in high-stakes, resource-constrained public sector settings — and how to measure it

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Let's build something that matters

I'm always open to interesting conversations about AI, product, and impact. Whether you want to collaborate, chat about a problem, or just say hi — reach out.

✦ Open to Contracting

0-to-1 AI Product Development Responsible AI Strategy Agentic Tool Design AI Product Discovery & Research