Ilia Khan

I'm a product manager in Phoenix. By day I work on AI agents at Medallia. The rest of the day goes to an MBA, three small apps, and a few rentals.

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Morning

By day I work on AI agents.

I'm a senior product manager at Medallia, which makes the software big companies use to measure customer and employee experience. My corner of it is AI agents: software that takes the next step for you, with your permission.

The question I spend most days on is what an agent should be allowed to do on someone's behalf, and what it has to prove first.

Twelve years in B2B software got me here, across integrations, APIs, mobile, and now AI. Lately most of the work is zero to one: a new product, an unclear problem, a small team.

Golden hour

Then I'm a student again.

I'm in the online MBA program at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, working through it alongside the day job. Graduation is close enough to see.

I build my own study tools as I go, which is a very product manager way to do homework.

After dark

After dark I build small things.

SlowDraft draft.iliakhan.com
Fantasy football drafts that run over days instead of one frantic night. You get a text when you're on the clock, line up a queue, and pick when you have a minute. Built for Yahoo leagues and free for the 2026 season.
Buildable buildable.iliakhan.com
Type in a Mesa or Tempe address and it tells you whether Arizona law lets you build a casita in the backyard, how big it can be, and where it fits on the lot. Every number cites the statute it came from. It's free and still an early prototype.
Kilian's Games kiliansgames.com
A free browser arcade I build with my son. He comes up with the games and I get them working. There are ten so far, including a daily code-breaking puzzle and a magnet game that was entirely his idea.

The rest are smaller: n8n workflows, a vector database, a few APIs wired together to see if an idea holds up.

The small hours

It's check-in time in Hokkaido.

I host short-term rentals in Arizona, Texas, and Hokkaido, Japan. When it's the middle of the night here, guests on the other side of the world are just arriving.

Arizona: 1:30 AM
Texas: 2:30 AM
Hokkaido: 5:30 PM

At work I build software that measures customer experience. As a host I'm the one being reviewed, which keeps me honest.

Almost sunrise

That's the day. It starts over in a few minutes.

Start the day over