Rant Blog
by Ramar Ranjeet Skanda — data-backed writing on product, AI and building things. Every claim carries a chart, a stat or a source.
India's $1.93 Trillion Retail Market Is the Biggest Automation Prize Nobody's Claimed
India's retail economy nearly doubles to $1.93T by 2030 — and 65% of its enterprise software spend already goes to foreign vendors. For an operations-AI company, that's not a distant market. It's an open goal.
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The Software That Logs In, Clicks Around, and Picks Up the Phone
The next wave of automation doesn't sit in a diagram. It logs into your ERP, works the supplier portal, sends the email — and when the…
Your Process Map Is Fiction — and It's Why Your Automation Failed
30–50% of RPA projects fail. The root cause is rarely the tech — it's that teams automate the process they wrote down, not the one people…
The 80% of Retail Ops That Automation Never Touched
Flow-based automation handles the clean 20% of a process and demos beautifully. The messy 80% — the exceptions, the weird templates, the…
How to Actually Use AI Agents: A Builder's Playbook (and the 55% That Justifies It)
An AI agent uses tools in a loop to finish a job. Here's the 5-step playbook to ship one that pays off — and the 55% productivity number to…
AI Agents: 95% of Pilots Fail. What the 5% Know That You Don't.
An AI agent is a model that uses tools in a loop. The tech works. The pilots mostly don't — 95% deliver no measurable ROI. The reason isn't…
AI Agents, Explained — and the 23% Already Cashing In
An AI agent is a model that uses tools in a loop to finish a job, not just chat. 62% of firms are experimenting; only 23% have scaled.…
100% of Product Teams Now Use AI. Here's What That Did to the Job.
Adoption isn't 95%. It's 100% — zero surveyed product teams said they don't use AI. The interesting question is no longer "if" but what…
The PM Job Market Is the Best in Three Years. So Why Does It Still Hurt?
PM openings just hit a three-year high — up 75% from the bottom. So why does landing a role still feel brutal? The recovery is real, but…
The Skills That Got More Valuable — and the Ones AI Just Made Cheap
AI didn't flatten the PM craft — it split it. Half the job got commoditized overnight; the other half got more valuable. Here's which is…