Helping non-tech businesses build software products in 8-12 weeks | DM me your app ideas | Owner - Ionio |

Hi, I'm Rohan! I run Ionio — a strategic AI consultancy for Retail & Ecom SaaS. We help mid-market platforms ($5M-100M ARR) build AI features that reduce churn, justify premium pricing, and turn their product into something merchants can't live without.

Over the past 5 years, we built 40+ products and helped founders go from zero to seven figures multiple times. Same playbook, over and over: take an idea, ship it fast, make it work, scale it.

After doing that tens of times, we wanted to take everything we learned and bring that energy to companies at the next stage. That's how we ended up focused on mid-market Retail & Ecom SaaS.

I'm genuinely passionate about this space. Generative AI lets us do something that was never possible before: personalize every single customer interaction. Not segments. Not cohorts. Actual one-on-one conversations at scale. Retail and ecom is where that has the biggest impact.

I've been working in AI since 2016 — back when that meant computer vision, not ChatGPT. Smart cameras, facial recognition, number plate recognition. That foundation matters when you're building production systems that actually need to work.

Previously: From 18 to 20, Sr. Software Engineer at SmartCow (Deep Tech AI company in Malta). At 17, Python work for a Mumbai startup, who are YET to pay me. At 15, building websites and apps for family friends in Java. It's been over a decade.

I started Ionio as a college junior, from my parent's bedroom, while hiring someone to do my assignments & a chauffeur to take me to college. Now it's a little less grunge than that.

In another life: rapper, musician, and cinematographer. Now I just build AI for retail... :(

What our clients say:

"Working with Ionio felt like having an extension of my own team — professionals who genuinely cared about delivering results, not just collecting a check."
— Stefan Georgi, Founder, 9-figure ecom founder

"Fastest I've ever launched a polished product. From wireframes to +1000 paying users in <8 weeks."
— Brad Milne, CTO, SupplierHQ

"Ionio has the character to navigate challenges and the technical depth to turn our 'AI-first' vision into reality."
— Sallyann Della Casa, CEO, Gleac

Read 35+ case studies on our site.

I post about: AI strategy for retail, technical deep dives, and behind-the-scenes of building Ionio.

If you're leading product, engineering, or strategy at a Retail & Ecom SaaS company, or a founder in any space — DM me, I always reply. If you're in Mumbai, I'll buy you a coffee.

Rohan Sawant

The $100K truth about enterprise SAAS that everyone forgets!

Last year, I helped a nine-figure retail brand evaluate data analytics platforms, they wanted to understand & visualize an frontend A/B test. 

Standard buying process—shortlist vendors, book demos, compare features. 

Here's what actually happened: I joined every call as their technical advisor. 

Not to hear the AE's pitch. To strip it down. 

To see what the product actually did versus what the marketing claimed it did. 

Got a list of 5-6 platforms from Chatgpt. Booked calls. 

Removed all their positioning, all their messaging, all their sales theater. Just laid the core products side by side. 

Made the decision based on capability, differentiation, ROI & cost. That's it. This is the actual buying journey for most of SaaS right now. 

In most sophisticated markets. 

And this experience crystallized something I've been seeing across dozens of conversations with SaaS companies over the past few weeks: 

All the marketing gimmicks, all the positioning frameworks, all the clever messaging—they work exactly once. 

They get you shortlisted in the discovery phase. But when an enterprise buyer is actually deploying a $100K budget? 

None of that matters anymore. 

What matters is: 
1. Does your product actually do what you claim? 🤔 
2. How differentiated is the core capability? ⚡
3. What's the measurable ROI? 💰

The mid-market knows this. Enterprise buyers definitely know this. 

Yet somehow, SaaS companies keep optimizing for discovery metrics instead of decision metrics. 

As we move into AI-native products, this gap is going to become even more obvious. 

Because AI products are easier to test, easier to compare, and harder to hide behind marketing. 

The companies that win won't be the ones with the best positioning decks. 

They'll be the ones that built something meaningfully better. 

For companies wondering how their products stack up in an AI-native future (esp. ones who just rolled their eyes at that) you should definitely drop me a DM, saying "AI"

CEO & Founder | AI, LLM & NLP Consulting | Training, Deploying & Scaling GenAI Applications

Hi, I'm Sayed! I'm an entrepreneur and growth marketer with 6+ years of experience helping companies scale.  I’ve built and led a marketing team for a health equipment company, launched and grew my own online printing business. Currently, I am writing a newsletter focused on practical strategies for online business growth.

If you're interested in growth insights and actionable tips, subscriber to my newsletter: www.startupblitz.net

Sayed Habib

Here’s how you can transfer your ChatGPT conversations to Gemini (with one powerful prompt).

Everyone’s been talking about Gemini 3 for the last month.

"ChatGPT may have lost for the first time!"
"Google is now no. 1 in AI!"

They aren’t completely wrong.

Gemini 3’s deep integration with Google services (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, YouTube, and more) makes it incredibly useful for both work and everyday life.

But there’s a big problem here 👇

What do you do with ChatGPT conversation history?

You’ve told ChatGPT everything about your life and business. It already knows you.

So you can’t just wake up one day and say: “Alright, switching to Gemini.”

Because Gemini doesn’t know you yet. It doesn’t understand your values, habits, or how you think and write.

That’s exactly what we’re fixing today. 🤯

With one prompt, ChatGPT will automatically generate your personalised profile data from your previous conversations.

You then paste that into Gemini.

Result: Gemini instantly feels like “your” AI.

1️⃣ Step 01: Use this prompt in ChatGPT

This prompt will automatically summarise your profile, strengths, activities, etc., based on what you've discussed with ChatGPT so far :

“Based on our previous conversations, please summarise my profile information into a single, coherent piece.

Organise this into a format that is easy for an AI to understand, including the following sections:

- Basic Profile
- Personality Traits
- Strengths and Areas of Expertise
- Work/Activities
- Commonly Used Skills and Tools
- Values and Priorities
- Tone of Writing and Communication Style

Create a ready-to-copy-paste version that is factual, clear, and concise, suitable for sharing with other AIs.”

ChatGPT will generate a personalised profile.

2️⃣ Step 2: Paste the generated profile into Gemini

In Gemini, paste this prompt first:

“The following is my profile information.

In future responses, please use this as a reference to provide answers optimised for me.

(Paste "your data" created by ChatGPT here)”

That’s it!

Gemini will now understand your personality, activities, preferences, and way of speaking, and immediately begin operating as your own personal AI.

⚡ The speed at which AI is evolving is truly astonishing.

If you don’t carry your context with you, you’re starting from zero every time.

I hope this prompt will help you take your AI use to the next level ☺️

Sayed Bin Habib 🐋

Practical AI tactics that save startups time and money | Zero breathless hype

How to transfer your ChatGPT conversations to Gemini

This is my practical 2026 roadmap to go from AI beginner to pro (no theory learning or course watching required).

Subscribe to ChatGPT Plus. 
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Get a sense of what’s possible with standard GPT-5.2 Thinking. Push it to its limit.
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Go a little deeper and let ChatGPT create small Python functions that generate graphs for you.
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Try creating reports with DeepResearch and compare results to GPT-5.2 Thinking.
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Next, try out basic AI agents.
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First, create a sophisticated website using Manus. Push it to its limit.
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Have Nanobanana generate a complete slide deck from your research in one go.
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Next, try out vibe coding.
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Since it's free, Google's Antigravity is recommended.
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Create a sophisticated website that wasn't possible with Manus.
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Try some light automation using Playwright.
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Get hands-on with MCP to easily pull in external information.
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Once you're getting the hang of it, try Claude Code, currently the strongest.
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First, just use it like you would Antigravity.
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Learn to create Claude Skills to automate basic tasks.
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Automate more complex and human-like tasks with sub-agents.
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If you want to deploy it on a server and run it 24/7, try the Claude Agent SDK.

If I were to start from scratch now, this is how I would do it.

Please let me know what you guys think!

Honestly, people who are still "Googling" are wasting their precious life's time. "Search, avoid ads, read SEO articles, and then go back again..." Let's put an end to these pointless tasks. 

With NotebookLM's "Fast Research," we'll minimise search time to virtually zero. Here's how to master the next-generation research technique 👇

But first, why is "Google Search" not enough?

❌ Limitations of Google search:

- Top results are often filled with affiliate marketing and SEO-optimised articles.
- It takes a long time to find the primary information you really want.

✅ NotebookLM "Fast Research" revolution:

- Simply ask "Tell me about X," and the AI will automatically select reliable sources.
- With a single prompt, it loads up 10 articles or YouTube videos at once
- Zero ads, zero noise. Only pure "knowledge" is delivered to you.

🌲 Another benefit of NotebookLM: it provides mind map visualisation.

You don't need to read the 10 articles you've collected from top to bottom. You can get the overall picture with the "Mind Map" in the Studio function.

- From the vast amount of collected information, the AI automatically extracts key topics and visualises them in a tree structure
- The connections between information are immediately visible, allowing you to instantly grasp the big picture
- By clicking on a node (item) you're interested in, the AI provides an in-depth explanation of just that part

📝 Another great function of NotebookLM is the Report function.

You don't have time to read all the massive amount of research materials, right? 

In such cases, use the Report function in the Studio feature.

- Simply click "Report" and select the summarisation format.
- Convert multiple articles or papers into reports that extract only the core parts.
- Instantly organise important keywords, key individuals, timelines, and more.

This is the ultimate time-saving technique that transforms "reading time" into "thinking time.

🧠 You can also create your specialised note that becomes an expert brain!

Save your research results and create "specialised notes" for each theme.

- Divide your notebooks by theme, such as "Marketing," "New AI Information," or "Sales Know-how."
- Continuously add the latest information gathered with "Fast Research" to your notes.

By repeating this process, you'll create a "personal expert AI" that possesses all the knowledge in that field.

When you're stuck, ask this note, and you'll receive professional-level answers instantly, based on all your past data.

This is the summary for graduating from Google Search:

1️⃣ Fast Research: Collect high-quality information in bulk without ads or noise.
2️⃣ Mind Map: Visualise the structure of information. Instantly grasp the overall picture and reduce brain load.
3️⃣ Report: Summarise vast information with one click. Significantly reduce reading time.
4️⃣ Specialised Notes: Accumulate search results and create your own expert AI.

From now on, instead of Googling, ask NotebookLM.

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