Strategy • AI Products • Growth • Innovation

Srishti
Nisha

I turn ambiguous problems into AI products, growth strategies and evidence-led decisions.

MSc Management candidate at UCL and PhD-trained researcher with experience across AI product development, startup strategy, innovation consulting and research-led implementation.

UCL MSc ManagementCorporate Pathway
Live AI MVPBuilt & Launched
Published ResearchPeer-reviewed
Startup StrategyPartnerships & GTM
Top 3 AI TeamUCL AI Cohort
Research to ImpactBiofortified Village
Portfolio

Selected Work in Strategy, AI & Innovation

Live products, business strategy and research-led implementation — built with evidence, not just ideas.

AI Product

AI Campus Orchestrator

Built a live AI MVP that transforms fragmented student inputs into a structured, burnout-aware planning system.

Live MVP SaaS Product Strategy Top 3 UCL Team
Startup Strategy

Vanity Pass

Early-stage product, GTM and partnership work as Employee #2, turning scattered customer, market and partnership signals into clear priorities and execution.

GTM Product Research Partnerships Pipeline Reporting
Growth & Operations

Simple Handyman

Growth & operations work that turned a small local trades website into a measured, repeatable channel — SEO, site structure and reporting that lifted traffic and engagement.

SEO Growth Operations WordPress Analytics Reporting
Research & Impact

Biofortification Research

Led wheat biofortification research that translated field evidence into adoption insights contributing to CSAUAT's wider biofortification work supporting India's first biofortified village.

Research Commercialisation Food Security Sustainability Published Work
Strategy

Greggs Growth Strategy

Developed a growth strategy for Greggs under health regulation and consumer trend pressure, recommending a phased healthier product line.

Consumer Goods Growth Strategy PESTLE Porter's SAFe
Innovation

Fairphone Innovation Strategy

Assessed Fairphone's circular economy model across sourcing, repairability, longevity and scalability to evaluate sustainability-led advantage.

Circular Economy ESG Business Model Canvas 4Ps
AI Governance · Current

AI Hiring Research

Researching how hiring professionals assess human skills when candidates are openly allowed to use AI.

Future of Work Human Skills Qualitative Research
Capabilities

How I Solve Problems

Strategy

Frame ambiguous business problems, map markets, assess competitive dynamics and translate analysis into implementation-ready recommendations.

PESTLE · Porter's Five Forces · SAFe · Market sizing · Competitor benchmarking

AI & Product

Build and position AI products from problem definition to MVP, workflows, user journeys and commercial logic.

AI MVP development · Product strategy · Prompt workflows · SaaS positioning

Research

Design research, synthesise evidence and turn qualitative and quantitative data into practical decisions.

User interviews · Field research · Quant analysis · Literature synthesis

Innovation

Evaluate how new products, business models and sustainability strategies create competitive advantage.

Business model innovation · Circular economy · ESG · Research commercialisation

Delivery

Convert complex work into clear documentation, pitch decks and stakeholder-ready outputs.

Structured documentation · Stakeholder recommendations · Scope management

Research & Publications

Peer-reviewed and current research

PhD and MSc research spanning food security, biofortification and the future of work.

2022 · Biofortification

Biofortification effect of FYM, zinc and iron on yield and quality of wheat

Peer-reviewed research evaluating wheat treatment combinations for yield and nutritional quality outcomes.

The Pharma Journal ↗
2023 · Food Security

Wheat biofortification — yield & quality findings

Further published work translating field findings into practical, data-backed adoption recommendations.

The Pharma Journal ↗
Published · Agriculture

Biofortification of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Research publication on ResearchGate detailing FYM, zinc and iron treatment outcomes.

ResearchGate ↗
Current · AI & Hiring

Assessing human skills when AI use is openly allowed in hiring

Ongoing UCL research on measurement validity, human contribution and fair assessment design under permitted AI use.

Read more →
Writing

Essays & product notes

Essays and product notes coming soon.

  • What I learned building a live AI MVP
  • AI in hiring: how do we assess human skills when candidates can use AI?
  • Repositioning a PhD profile for the UK market
Strategy Case Study

Career Strategy & Market Positioning

Repositioning a PhD profile for the UK market.

Market Entry · Career Design

UK Career Repositioning

Treated career transition as a market-entry challenge: mapping role segments, testing positioning, iterating CV narratives and using feedback loops to reposition a research-heavy profile for consulting, product and strategy roles.

Curriculum Vitae

The full profile

PhD-trained researcher and MSc Management candidate working across strategy, AI product development, innovation and research commercialisation — with published work and a live AI MVP.

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Contact

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Open to consulting, AI strategy, product innovation and business transformation opportunities.