• Manas Ramaraju
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Manas Ramaraju
Manas Ramaraju
Hey! I am Manas đź‘‹
A product person with
a designer's eye
and a builder's hands.

I build things that work and make sure they feel right. Five years of design training, three companies led, four enterprise AI products shipped at XNODE INC.

Currently building AI products at XNODE INC
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Manas Ramaraju
Manas Ramaraju
Hi! I am Manas đź‘‹
A product person with
a designer's eye
and a builder's hands.

I build things that work and make sure they feel right. Five years of design training, three companies led, four enterprise AI products shipped at Cortx.

Currently building AI products at XNODE INC
View my work →
4+
Enterprise products shipped
5 yrs
Design training · BFA
3
Companies led
0→1
Every product I've built

Hi, I'm Manas!

Manas Block

A product person with a designer's eye and a builder's hands.

I build things that work and make sure they feel right. Five years of design training, three companies led, four enterprise AI products shipped. Currently at Cortx building AI systems for enterprises.

🟢 Currently designing AI-driven products and enterprise workflows

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About — Manas Ramaraju
Manas Ramaraju
About Me

I'm drawn to complex product problems that need to feel simple, intuitive, and scalable. I care about bringing clarity to ambiguity, working closely with teams, and building experiences that move both users and the business forward.

Five years of design training gave me a way of seeing. Three companies taught me how to lead. Cortx taught me how to ship AI products that actually work in the real world.

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From agency to
AI Product Manager
Built and scaled products across branding, edtech, and enterprise AI at Cortx.
Shipped
4 Enterprise Products
All zero-to-one — Agent Playground, Workflow Builder, Collab Flow, and RBAC.
Product, Design
& Leadership
Led cross-functional teams of up to 10 across design, marketing, and product.
BFA in
Applied Arts
Five years of visual communication — the foundation of everything I build.
Core Skills
Product Strategy AI Product Management Zero to One User Research Stakeholder Alignment Design Systems Visual Communication GTM Strategy Enterprise SaaS Edge Case Thinking Interaction Design And more
Work — Manas Ramaraju
Selected work
Product case studies
Four enterprise AI products built from zero at Cortx — each one a different problem, a different constraint, and a different PM story.
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Collab Flow
CortxAI ProductEnterprise SaaS
From meeting room to sprint board — in under 30 minutes
An AI pipeline that turns every enterprise meeting into summaries, tasks, specs, and Jira tickets automatically. 90% faster product development across 3 enterprises.
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Workflow Builder
CortxConversational AINo-Code
From conversation to production workflow — no engineering ticket
A conversational AI wizard that lets anyone build production-ready AI workflows. 50% faster solution shipping across 3 enterprise clients.
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Agent Playground
CortxZero to OneAgent Config
Where enterprise AI agents are built, tested, and trusted
A five-layer agent assembly environment built from zero — letting both technical and non-technical users configure and deploy AI agents without engineering involvement.
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RBAC
CortxAccess ControlIdentity Mgmt
Governance that works for people, not just policies
A permission system built from zero — predefined roles, license-tier enforcement, and CyberArk, LDAP, Azure AD integration that made Cortx enterprise-credible.
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My Process — Manas Ramaraju
My process
The way I bring
ideas to shipped.
🔍
Discover
Structured stakeholder conversations, user interviews, and journey mapping. I find the gap nobody has named before anything is defined or designed.
🧭
Define
Problem framing, success metrics, user profiles, and product architecture — all locked before engineering starts. Ambiguity at this stage costs weeks later.
✏️
Brief
I write the product brief, run stakeholder alignment sessions, and brief design across every flow, state, and edge case. The design background means I review with a trained eye.
⚙️
Build
Engineering coordination, QA against the edge case matrix, prompt iteration for AI outputs, and integration testing. I stay close to the build — not just the spec.
🚀
Ship
Feature demo videos, help documentation, GTM messaging, and enterprise rollout. Launch is not the finish line — it is where the real feedback loop begins.
🔄
Iterate
Post-launch feedback, usage signals, and the next version. I stay accountable for the outcome — not just the delivery. The product is never done.

Case Studies

The Nerve Center of an
AI Operating System

I designed the Console experience for Cortx — the admin layer that brings visibility, observability, and control to AI systems running across enterprises. A calm, high-trust design for complex decision environments.

Where Builders Create
Intelligent Workflows

Cortx Studio is the creative core of the OS — where users build agents, models, and automations. I led the design of its modular builder framework, balancing system depth with creative flow.

A Global Platform for
Students Abroad

NviGo unifies every resource an international student needs, from housing to insurance to community. I led the product design and brand system to make exploration feel connected, human, and trustworthy.

Graphic & Branding

A curated set of branding, visual identity, and graphic design projects focused on clarity, consistency, and visual storytelling.
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Selected Work

Real Estate

End-to-End Property Bidding
Unified flows for property discovery, comparison, bidding, and landlord interaction.
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Real Estate

Scalable Knowledge Hub

Designed a structured content and navigation system for real-estate education and trust.

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Real Estate

AI Plan & Roadmap Generation

Designed AI-generated plans that turn intent into structured roadmaps and sprints.

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Real Estate

Agentic In-Context Prompting

Designed a multi-agent chat with in-context prompting and multimodal inputs.

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Blog

Thoughts and reflections on design, product thinking, and working with AI—written from real project experience.

Read my Articles
How I Design When Things Are Unclear

How I Design When Things Are Unclear

When things feel overwhelming, my instinct has never been to act quickly.I step back.I try to reframe the problem.I delay decisions until the intent

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Designing Products for AI, Not Around AI

Designing Products for AI, Not Around AI

When I first started working on AI-powered products, I approached them the same way I approached any other digital product.Define the screens.Map the flows.Design

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Why Traditional UX Breaks in Agentic AI Systems

Why Traditional UX Breaks in Agentic AI Systems

When I first encountered agentic AI systems, my instinct was to lean on familiar UX patterns.Define the flow.Constrain the steps.Make the system predictable.That’s how

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Designing for Intent, Not Clicks

Designing for Intent, Not Clicks

Designing for Intent, Not Clicks For a long time, I evaluated UX success by how smoothly users moved through a flow. Did they click

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Life Outside Figma

I find rhythm outside work — in films, food, beaches, and unplanned travels with close friends. Those quiet, ordinary moments shape how I see design — warm, patient, and human.

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Building and scaling products—from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 10. Let’s create what’s next.