🔸 Are You Stuck Here? 🔸
You have a good product, yet growth has slowed, adoption feels unpredictable, and the team is working harder without seeing the same results. The more tools and meetings you add, the more progress seems to stall between idea and delivery. It is frustrating to watch promising ideas lose momentum before they reach the customer.

🔸 There Is a Better Way 🔸
Most teams try to fix these symptoms with more process. What actually needs repair is the holistic product experience. I believe growth-stage companies win when they build experiences that work for customers and the business. That is the work of Product Experience Architecture. I help teams shorten the time from idea to validated impact by crafting products customers love and businesses trust.

🔸 My 3 Step Plan for Your Success 🔸
Through the PX360 Builder Advantage, I help growth-stage teams turn product development complexity into clarity, connection, and measurable results.
1️⃣ Diagnose Friction: We uncover where poor product experience (external and internal) is negatively impacting flow so teams can move with purpose.
2️⃣ Align the Builders: We connect product management, design, and engineering to buyer and user goals and outcomes.
3️⃣ Accelerate Impact: We shorten the idea-to-impact cycle and translate product work into adoption and growth.

🔸 Proof This Works 🔸
I have used this framework with HealthTech, FinTech, and EdTech leaders to replace stalled launches with real momentum. Many see adoption gains within 60 to 90 days. My background in product strategy and delivery taught me that when clarity leads, impact follows. Because this work is deep and collaborative, I partner with a limited number of companies each quarter who are ready to build differently, not just faster.

🔸 Your Next Step Is Clear 🔸
If you want to leverage product experience to drive customer and business outcomes, let’s talk. I offer a 30-minute Product Experience Clarity Session to pinpoint where friction hides between idea and impact. This is a working session, not a sales call. You will leave with clear insights whether we work together or not.

➥ Book your session: https://cal.com/natemjones/clarity-session

Nate Jones

Thomas Edison reminds us, “Vision without execution is hallucination.”
The opposite is true as well.

Crafting product experiences that hold up when users, buyers, and boards look closely | Product Experience Architect | HealthTech • FinTech • EdTech | Fractional & Advisory

Recently, I had the opportunity to get meta about how I operate in a fun conversation with Karina Mikhli. There's always something to learn by having to explain your nuanced, battle-hardened, sometimes silly processes and systems to others.

Founder, Fractionals United® | Global community for current and aspiring fractional leaders | Async First

Nate Jones is a regular during my Monthly Choose Your Own Reading Adventure book club at Fractionals United®, so I know he's an avid reader and super structured with his time. I was thrilled to finally have a chance to discuss how he handles being productive while juggling clients and life—and I picked up a useful tip or two!

Thank you for the lovely chat, Nate!

I chatted with Nate Jones, a fractional product, UX, and technology leader and FrUn community member, about how he stays productive across multiple cl

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AI never. AI ready. AI deployed 

Feel like the world is sprinting ahead with AI while you’re still figuring out where to start?

You’re not alone. Many leaders know AI can transform their business but they get stuck between the hype, the risks, and the practical steps.

I’m Erik Schwartz, Founder and Chief AI Officer at TheAiExpert.ai. I help ambitious leaders who are AI nevers see where AI fits in their business. We start with literacy, understanding what AI can and cannot do. Then we build a strategy and implement solutions that deliver.

What I build is:
• Grounded in execution, not theatre
• Focused on user needs, not novelty
• Measured by outcomes, not ideas

I’ve created resources to help you get started, including a free interactive AI Readiness Assessment at TheAiExpert.ai.

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⚡ Career Highlights
→ Built a billion-scale video intelligence platform at Comcast, powering more than one billion daily interactions
→ Led semantic search and AI transformation at Elsevier, accelerating global research
→ Shaped enterprise search at Microsoft, enabling smarter discovery in core products
→ Designed and launched Scopus.AI, redefining how academia finds knowledge
→ Scaled AI consulting at Tricon, unlocking measurable wins with intelligent workflows

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🛠️ What We Do at TheAiExpert.ai
We work with business leaders to identify, design, and deploy AI solutions that cut friction and create measurable value:
→ Automating compliance-heavy workflows to reduce costs and accelerate delivery
→ Deploying 24/7 conversational agents that boost leads without adding headcount
→ Building intelligent systems that streamline operations and free teams to focus on high-value work

We don’t just advise. We deliver. We get it live, get it right, and get it producing results.

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📩 Let’s connect.
Send me a message or say “Let’s build” and I’ll share a link to book a call.

Erik Schwartz

Claude is now managing Claude.

My workflow has crossed into something that feels genuinely new.

I now have Claude Code calling other Claude Code sessions.
Claude acts as the tech lead, assigns tasks to the developers, monitors progress, checks output, and pushes harder when something is stuck or slipping.

Today we hit a nasty CSS issue.
The kind of frontend problem that can quietly consume hours.

Claude kept the agenda moving and drove the fix through.

And the strangest part?

I was monitoring the whole thing remotely from my phone.

While the AI team was inside running the sprint, chasing the bug, and working through the problem, I was outside cutting flowers for Mother’s Day.

That contrast really hit me.

Not because AI wrote some code.
Because AI coordinated the work.
And I supervised the operation from a handheld device while doing something entirely human in the real world.

That is a different model of work.

Less sitting at the keyboard doing every task yourself.
More directing systems.
More reviewing outcomes.
More stepping in where judgment, priorities and taste still matter.

We are getting very close to a world where your software team is part human, part machine, and the manager is walking around with an iPhone.

Mother’s Day flowers outside.
Multi-agent debugging sprint inside.
AI org chart in my pocket.

That’s not science fiction anymore.

#AI #ClaudeCode #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #VibeCoding #AIEngineering #GenerativeAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Fractional Chief AI Officer || AI Strategy, Literacy and Implementation || ex-Microsoft, Comcast, Elsevier || Founder & Chief AI Officer, TheAiExpert.ai

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