Geethu Rajasekharan
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PARENTING · DUAL ATTUNEMENT OF PARENT & CHILD

Attuned AI

AI-powered parenting guidance that builds confidence, not dependency.

FOUNDING PRODUCT MANAGER CONVERSATIONAL AI CUSTOMER DISCOVERY AI EVALUATIONGTM
Coa — the AI parenting companion

Real-time coaching, child behaviour insights, parent growth reflections, and personalized bedtime storytelling.

10+
parent interviews
40+
survey respondents
4
AI workflows shipped
2–12
child age focus

Attuned AI is an AI-powered parenting companion that helps parents navigate emotionally difficult moments with greater awareness, empathy, and confidence. Built on interviews with 10+ parents and survey research with 40+ respondents, it combines real-time AI coaching, child behaviour insights, parent growth reflections, and personalized storytelling — powered by RAG, long-term family memory, and agentic AI workflows that grow alongside the parent and child.

My role

What I owned

Product lead — from AI hypothesis to shipped MVP.

11 wks
hypothesis → launched MVP
15
cross-functional team led
<$120
total software & infra spend
Top 3
AI PM Incubator startups

Achievements

Shipped a generative AI MVP in 11 weeks

Delivered the Attuned AI conversational coaching experience end to end, leading a cross-functional team of 15 from AI hypothesis definition through launch.

Cut LLM cost without losing quality

Optimized spend through model selection, prompt engineering, prompt caching, and AI evaluation — the full MVP ran on under $120 of software and infrastructure.

Top 3 in an AI PM incubator

Led development of the core conversational AI experience, placing among the top 3 startups in Dr. Nancy Li's AI Product Management Incubator Program.

Responsibilities

  • Customer discovery. Ran parent interviews and translated voice-of-customer into MVP requirements, flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Generative AI product development. Designed the RAG conversational solution — vector retrieval, chat summarization, prompt engineering, guardrails, and response validation.
  • AI evaluation & quality. Defined eval frameworks, testing strategy, fallback handling, and safety mechanisms to improve reliability and trust.
Research · the problem

Parents know what to do. They can't access it in the moment.

What we heard across interviews and survey responses.

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Breakthrough insight

Parents weren't looking for another parenting resource. They were looking for help translating existing knowledge into action during emotionally charged moments.

Target persona

Maya

She needs to stay regulated — and reach what she already knows — right when a hard moment hits.

MAYA
Parent · Household decision-maker
Mostly solo-parenting while her army-officer husband is away

“I want to give my kids a childhood that feels different from my own — without losing myself trying.”

Demographics
Age30+
Income<$150K / yr
EducationBachelor's degree
WorkMostly WFH gigs
FamilyEmma (3) & Leo (11)
Persona need

Knows what she should do but can't reach it in the moment. Tried apps and books — nothing stuck. Driven by not repeating her own upbringing.

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Top pain points

01 Can't access what she knows when flooded with stress.
02 Sees her reactions clearly but can't interrupt the pattern.
03 Fears every hard moment shapes who her kids become.
The product

What Attuned does

Coa meets parents in four moments — each powered by its own AI workflow.

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The moat: memory that compounds

The more a parent uses Coa, the more it knows their family — no competitor remembers.

Our AI hypothesis

Helping parents respond, not react.

Everything in Attuned AI was built around a single behavioural hypothesis.

If the AI delivers warm, age-appropriate, NVC-framed responses with less than 15% age-stage misattribution to parents of children ages 2–12, they are able to recognize their own emotional triggers and respond to their child in the moment rather than react, which improves D7 session return rate — with 3+ sessions in the first 7 days predicting conversion — ultimately increasing free-to-paid conversion within the first week.

Product thinking

Key product decisions & tradeoffs

Every product is a series of decisions under uncertainty. These were the choices that shaped Attuned AI.

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A recurring theme: trust

Every major product choice was evaluated against one question — will this help parents feel understood and supported in the moment they need guidance most?

Validation framework

Key testing metrics

Developmental appropriateness, turned into a measurable quality metric.

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Why it mattered

Trust depended on developmental accuracy. If guidance felt too mature for a toddler or too childish for a pre-teen, parents were less likely to trust the recommendation, return to the product, or convert.

What it unlocked

Turning developmental appropriateness into a measurable quality metric transformed AI trust from a subjective concern into a product KPI tied directly to retention, engagement, and conversion.

Want the full Attuned story?

Happy to walk through the discovery work, the AI evaluation framework, and the trade-offs.

Try Attuned → Get in touch
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