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# Yashar Ahmadpour on Tal

## Headline

AI Product Executive \| Founder & CEO, Impressive \| Agentic Systems, Enterprise AI & Product Commercialization

## About

I am an AI product executive and founder focused on turning AI systems into commercial products people actually use\. My work sits at the intersection of agentic systems, enterprise SaaS, workflow automation, AI\-native product strategy, and 0\-to\-1 commercialization\. I have built and led products across AI, fintech, healthcare, insurance, gaming, consumer platforms, and enterprise infrastructure\. The through\-line in my career is simple: I take complex technical capability and turn it into usable, scalable, revenue\-relevant product systems\. Selected outcomes: \- Co\-founded and led product for an acquired AI/predictive analytics company later integrated into the Morningstar ecosystem, reaching 16M\+ plan participants\. \- Built infrastructure supporting 300\+ operational AI agents across financial analysis, compliance, research automation, decision support, and enterprise workflow orchestration\. \- Improved product retention from roughly 37% to 90%\+ through product redesign, UX simplification, and rapid iteration\. \- Helped scale a gaming ecosystem platform from $0 to $5M ARR in approximately six months through product, monetization, and growth execution\. \- Delivered 46 enterprise decision systems for financial institutions and established integrations across roughly 160 record keepers and financial platforms\. \- Reduced complex enterprise workflows from weeks to minutes across insurance, financial services, and AI automation environments\. \- Led AI transformation and personalization initiatives for a digital fitness platform serving hundreds of thousands of users\. I operate as a hybrid executive\-builder: product strategy, UX architecture, AI systems thinking, GTM alignment, customer discovery, rapid prototyping, and commercialization\. I am useful when a company has technical ambition but needs sharper product judgment, faster execution, clearer positioning, and a path from prototype to adoption\. Areas I work in most: \- AI product strategy \- Agentic systems \- Operational AI \- Enterprise workflow automation \- AI platform strategy \- Product commercialization \- 0\-to\-1 product development \- Enterprise SaaS \- AI\-native UX \- Product\-led growth and monetization Best fit: AI\-native companies, enterprise AI platforms, agentic workflow companies, founder\-led startups, and product organizations that need to turn emerging technology into commercially credible products\.

## Location

San Francisco

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Deal Partner at Boardy, Dec 2025 \- Present · 9 mos, San Diego, CA, Deal partner focused on founder\-led companies, AI/product opportunities, and operator\-driven venture relationships\. Focus areas: \- Evaluate AI, product, and software opportunities through a founder/operator lens\. \- Support founder conversations around product strategy, commercialization, and market positioning\. \- Build relationships across venture\-backed startups, operators, and product\-led companies\.

Co\-Founder & CEO at Impressive, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, San Francisco Bay Area, Impressive is an AI\-native execution platform for generating and deploying operational agents, workflow systems, and business infrastructure from natural language\. I founded Impressive to make AI useful beyond chat: deployable systems, automated workflows, analytics layers, RAG infrastructure, APIs, admin tools, and agentic business processes that can move from idea to production quickly\. Key work: \- Led company strategy across product, platform architecture, GTM, customer discovery, positioning, and early adoption\. \- Architected an opinionated AI execution platform for production\-ready operational systems, including APIs, databases, admin infrastructure, analytics layers, RAG systems, and agent orchestration\. \- Built infrastructure supporting 300\+ operational AI agents across financial analysis, compliance operations, research automation, decision support, and enterprise process orchestration\. \- Enabled sub\-minute deployment of production\-ready agentic workflows\. \- Improved product retention from roughly 37% at launch to 90%\+ through product redesign, UX simplification, faster deployment cycles, and customer feedback loops\. \- Established early traction with private equity and hedge fund operators using high\-complexity AI workflows\. \- Built the company across product, engineering direction, customer acquisition, commercialization, and executive narrative\. Core domains: Agentic Systems, Operational AI, AI Product Strategy, Workflow Automation, RAG, Enterprise AI, Product Commercialization, AI\-Native UX\.

CX Program Advisory Board Member at Customer Experience at UC Irvine, Nov 2021 \- Present · 4 yrs 10 mos, Irvine, CA, Advisory board member for UC Irvine's Customer Experience program, contributing operator perspective on product experience, customer strategy, digital transformation, and AI\-enabled service models\. Focus areas: \- Customer experience strategy \- Product and service design \- Digital experience transformation \- AI\-enabled customer workflows \- Executive practitioner perspective\.

VP of CX at PEAR Health Labs, Nov 2023 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Carlsbad, CA, Led AI transformation, customer experience strategy, and product modernization for Aaptiv, a digital fitness platform serving hundreds of thousands of users\. Key outcomes: \- Led AI\-powered personalization initiatives across activation, engagement, retention, content delivery, and coaching experiences\. \- Reduced onboarding complexity from seven steps to three, improving activation and conversion\. \- Contributed to growth from roughly 200K to 300K users through onboarding optimization, activation improvements, and product experience redesign\. \- Influenced executive roadmap prioritization around AI\-driven product capabilities and personalization systems\. \- Partnered across Product, Engineering, AI, Marketing, and executive leadership to drive platform modernization\. \- Led cross\-functional execution across product, engineering, AI, marketing, and CX teams\. Leadership scope: Product team 4, Engineering 20, AI team 3, Marketing 5\. Core domains: AI Personalization, HealthTech, Consumer Subscription, Activation, Retention, Product Transformation, CX Strategy\.

Founding Member at San Diego Tech Hub, Dec 2018 \- Jan 2026 · 7 yrs 2 mos, Founding member of San Diego Tech Hub, supporting the regional startup ecosystem through founder community\-building, product/operator perspective, and startup network development\. Focus areas: startup ecosystem, founder community, product leadership, technology entrepreneurship\.

## Education

English Literature, California State University San Marcos

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