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I want to put a product I developed at my previous company into production and significantly increase its customer base and capabilities. Is it a good idea to include the following evidence:

  • Describe the challenge and the product itself.
  • Include screenshots and diagrams of the product.
  • Share the link to the arXiv paper for the product.
  • Include a reference letter from the sales manager of the AI team showing the increase in the number of customers for the product.
  • Also, the company manager highlighted the product’s importance in one of my recommendation letters (I will not include the recommendation in the evidence).

Thanks for your assistance.

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@pourya_jafarzadeh

Improving evidence is a strategic exercise, but one thing isn’t clear, were you actually an employee of this company? If you were, why would you need to push their product into production or increase sales when you are no longer there. If it was your own company, the fact that you later pivoted into something now, suggests it wasn’t fully market fit. In that case, how do you plan to demonstrate a significant increase in its customer base?

If you intend to use this evidence for MC, the focus must be on leadership, and ideally a sales executive from the company should validate the sales impact in a formal letter. If you plan to use it for OC3, the emphasis must be on significant contribution, not simply describing the product.

Screenshots and diagrams are common artefacts to show evidence, but you must show that they are from credible external sources, to reduce the risk of receiving feedback that the evidence was self authored.

You also mentioned: “Share the link to the arXiv paper for the product.” Was the product actually the result of research you conducted? arXiv is a public repository for academic papers. Did you carry out the research yourself and the product you built solved a problem? These are the factors that will determine the research, product connection usefulness.

All the best.

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Thanks, @Raphael.
I was the senior ML engineer in the company, and my impact (adding two features to the product) increased the customers’ satisfaction, and we could have more customers due to supporting more conditions that were compatible with the customer’s requirements.

I will concentrate on my leadership for MC, and I will add the letter from the sales manager to the evidence (less than 3 pages of evidence). I also want to use another feature, such as OC3, so I will focus on my contribution and impact on the product.

I published the paper, and the paper described my work on the product, so I think that could be useful based on your advice.

Thanks for your guides.

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