[ 01 · Introduction ]
S 33.8688° · E 151.2093°
Portfolio · PM
Est. 2016 — Present
preeti
Payments · Product · Manager

Shipping money,gracefully.

I build payment products that move real money for real people — wallets, merchant rails, launch pads and evaluation tooling for the age of AI. Currently redefining trust at the edge of fintech and machine intelligence.

Now
Building AI evaluation
infrastructure for
payment platforms.
Preeti Basu
Fig. 01 — Portrait, Sydney/ 2026
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[ Chapter II — Manifesto ]

Four things I believe
about building money.

A working philosophy, revised monthly, argued daily.
01

Money as a language.

Every payment is a sentence — between people, machines and institutions. My job is to make the grammar effortless: fast, safe, and quietly beautiful.
02

Ship small, ship real.

Beta over vaporware. I ship the smallest thing that changes behavior, measure the truth in the data, and let the roadmap earn its next chapter.
03

AI without vertigo.

AI in payments doesn't need spectacle — it needs evaluation, guardrails and trust rails. I build the boring parts so the magic feels safe.
04

Beauty is a feature.

The best money products disappear into the moment. Design isn't decoration; it's the difference between a user and an advocate.
[ Chapter IV — Case Studies ]

The receipts,
itemised.

Case Study · 0101 / 04
Activation Funnel Redesign

Activation rate improved from 42% to 61% in 12 weeks.

Led an onboarding redesign across web and mobile using weekly experiment cycles and end-to-end funnel instrumentation.

  • 01Time-to-first-value reduced by 37% (4.3 days → 2.7 days).
  • 02Day-14 retention increased by 11 percentage points.
  • 03Estimated +$420K annualized expansion revenue from faster activation.
· Onboarding· Experimentation· Growth
Case Study · 0202 / 04
Support Triage Platform

Average resolution time dropped by 44% (19h 10.6h).

Defined requirements with support, ops, and engineering, then shipped a routing and prioritization workflow in 8 weeks.

  • 01Escalation volume reduced by 29% after introducing queue ownership rules.
  • 02First-response SLA compliance improved from 71% to 93%.
  • 03Manual duplicate ticket handling reduced by 58%.
· Workflow· Ops· Prioritization
Case Study · 0303 / 04
Product Operating Model for 4 Squads

Delivery predictability improved by 28% within 1 planning cycle.

Implemented quarterly planning, outcome-based roadmaps, and weekly KPI reviews across product, design, and engineering.

  • 01Roadmap spillover reduced from 34% to 18% quarter-over-quarter.
  • 02Unplanned urgent work dropped by 22% due to clearer prioritization.
  • 03Discovery allocation stabilized at 20% capacity each sprint.
· Operating Model· Planning· Leadership
Case Study · 0404 / 04
Cross-Functional Metrics Dashboard

Adopted by 3 business functions in the first month.

Partnered with data engineering on trusted KPI definitions and built role-based views for product, growth, and leadership.

  • 01Weekly reporting prep time reduced from 6 hours to 90 minutes.
  • 02Decision latency on growth experiments reduced by 35%.
  • 03Metric discrepancy incidents dropped by 63% after KPI governance launch.
· Analytics· KPI Governance· Data
[ Chapter V — About ]

Off the record,
on the ledger.

I'm a payments PM working at the intersection of trust, speed and AI. I've shipped wallets used by millions, launched merchant rails in emerging markets, and now build the evaluation layer that keeps AI honest in production.

When I'm not writing PRDs, I'm reading long-form journalism, chasing good light with a film camera, or explaining to friends why UPI actually is beautiful, please just look.

9+
Years shipping
12
Products live
9
Currencies handled
Product Craft
  • 0 → 1 launches
  • Roadmapping & OKRs
  • Discovery & user research
  • Experimentation (A/B)
  • PRDs that ship
Payments Depth
  • Digital wallets
  • Merchant onboarding
  • KYC / KYB
  • Risk & fraud rails
  • Cross-border rails
AI & Data
  • LLM evaluation
  • Prompt design
  • Guardrails & safety
  • SQL / analytics
  • Metrics frameworks
Tooling
  • Figma
  • Amplitude
  • Mixpanel
  • Notion
  • Linear
  • Metabase
hello
[ Chapter VI — Contact ]

Have a
payment problem
worth solving?

I'm open to consulting engagements, fractional PM roles, and full-time opportunities in payments, wallets & AI infra. If it moves money — I want to hear about it.

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