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Know What to Build
Build it Right
Ten years of figuring out what to build, building it right, and writing it down.
karak chai
Knowledge by execution.
A decade of work tends to leave a paper trail.
Hundreds of articles written. Dozens of products shipped. A few expensive lessons that didn't make it into any case study.
That's probably the best summary of how I work — obsessive about understanding things before I claim to know them.
Before the career, there was just a kid taking apart hardware, trying to understand how machines talked to each other. Got certified as a technician before I had a first real paycheck. That curiosity is the only thing that stayed constant through everything that came after.
The path followed a logic that only makes sense in reverse. Tech support. Marketing. Project management. Product. Consulting. No clear roadmap existed for most of that work in Pakistan when I started — so I drew one as I went. Learned product by shipping the wrong thing first. Learned business by getting it wrong deliberately, until right became obvious. A decade of that produces a certain kind of judgment you can't get from a course.
The work eventually split in two. One half: helping founders build what should exist, not what sounds good in a pitch deck. Discovery before development — that's the whole philosophy. The other half: helping people figure out tech and career without a playbook. The way I had to.
Neither half makes sense without the other. Both came from the same thing: seeing a gap and building something rather than complaining about it.
If I have an idea, it tends to have a .com at the end of it. Some are still standing. Most taught me something.
Both count. And there are probably a few in the queue as you read this.
Every generation stands on the shoulders of the one before it.— Saqib Tahir
I hope to be someone helping the next.
One person. Two arms.
Building products and building people — two sides of the same mission.
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Facts tell.
Stories sell.
Saqib is a true pleasure to work with. He's an incredibly talented product owner and keenly knowledgeable on all facets of product development. And more importantly, he's a person of great character. The energy he brings to projects, his wit and sense of humor, his ability to work cohesively with any team, and his limitless creativity — Saqib brings his A game each and every time. Hire him, and good luck keeping him because a talent like Saqib is going to be in hot demand.
Saqib has been instrumental as our product partner for Payroll Standard. His leadership in product discovery, combined with exceptional workshop facilitation and structured methodology, drives outstanding results. His strategic approach to understanding user needs and prioritizing what actually matters makes him invaluable to our team. Highly recommended.
Saqib got up to speed quickly and became an integral part of the team in no time. A strong cross-functional collaborator, he worked seamlessly with everyone and earned universal respect. He produced high-quality discovery work that moved the project forward with confidence and precision.
I hired Saqib to manage product discovery, market research, and project management for one of my U.S.-based clients building a CRM. Saqib has been terrific so far and helped the client raise a $250K seed discovery round. 100% recommend — and I'll be using him to manage my other client projects.
Saqib was crucial in helping my agency grow and scale. We did over $300K in sales in 2022 and he was a big part of it. A versatile partner who made significant contributions as product strategist for enterprise clients, and helped build repeatable, scalable discovery processes.
I worked with Saqib directly at Crowdbotics, where he managed a couple of high-importance projects. He's great at research — able to collect information from various sources and strategize the best path forward for complex projects. I was also impressed by his ability to build trust quickly with clients and internal stakeholders.
When I think of self-motivated, Saqib embodies this. He came in as a product partner and excelled at learning the domain and requirements in record time. He partnered with our existing product team to map out our discovery process and identified gaps and solutions. We wouldn't have made the progress we have without his knowledge and leadership.
Always a pleasure working with Saqib. Excellent work ethic, and he always goes above and beyond expectations. As a CEO/Founder of a web agency based in the US, there's no one more versatile and reliable for product strategy and discovery work.
