Karthik Patil*

AI Product Director at Creative Planning — bringing cutting-edge AI to wealth management.

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About

I’m Karthik, AI Product Director at Creative Planning, based in Austin — bringing cutting-edge AI to wealth management, where strategy, engineering, and the operational craft in between all have to ship.

Karthik working at a laptop in a cafe

I lead the design, development, and deployment of Creative Planning’s AI products and strategy — working at the seam between what an AI product should do for advisors, clients, and employees, and how it actually gets built. I care about the boring stuff that makes delivery real: clear milestones, honest risk tracking, tight feedback loops, and the unglamorous operational work that turns a promising idea into production software people trust with their wealth.

Location
Austin, TX
Currently
AI Product Director, Creative Planning
Also building
Athena — side projects, in public.
Education
Creighton University — Heider College of Business

Selected work

A decade spent shipping AI, data, and platform products across industries.

  1. 2026 — Now Creative Planning

    AI Product Director

    Leading the design, development, and deployment of Creative Planning’s AI products and strategy — bringing cutting-edge AI to wealth management to deliver exceptional experiences for advisors, clients, and employees.

  2. 2023 — 2026 Egen

    Senior Delivery Lead

    Led complex, multi-team AI and cloud transformation programs for enterprise clients — managing $1M–5M+ engagements across data infrastructure, platform modernization, and AI-native capabilities as a player-coach across strategy and hands-on execution.

  3. Prior Product & Delivery

    A decade shipping products across industries

    Defense, finance, healthcare, retail, and tech — leading product strategy and delivery from discovery through production rollout with cross-functional teams of designers, engineers, and researchers.

  4. Operating principles How I work

    Plans you can ship against.

    I write delivery plans the same way I'd write code — precise, testable, and small enough to ship. Vision is cheap; the craft is in the cadence of delivery.

  5. Education Creighton University

    Heider College of Business

    Foundations in business, technology, and the overlap between the two.

Selected clients

Organizations I’ve consulted for — across defense, finance, healthcare, retail, and tech.

Contact

Let’s talk.

The best way to reach me is email. If you prefer the feed, I'm on the usual places.

contact@karthikpatil.com