Christi Akinwumi
AI Product Manager & Conversation Designer
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ·christi.io ·[email protected] ·linkedin.com/in/christiakinwumi ·github.com/mrskinzo ·huggingface.co/christiakinwumi
Role lens
AI Product Management
Use this lens when the question is product strategy, rollout, and measurable value.
- Led product strategy and conversation design for AI support experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ markets.
- Defined requirements, evaluation criteria, and launch decisions for routing, retrieval, and model changes.
- Turned customer and operational evidence into roadmap priorities, experiments, and investment recommendations.
Conversation Design
Use this lens when the question is language, boundaries, trust, and failure handling.
- Rebuilt a routing taxonomy from 50K real conversations into mutually exclusive intents that reduced misrouting 30%.
- Designed self-service and escalation flows with localization, decision trees, and clearer customer language.
- Built live tool-using flows that separate tentative states from confirmed actions.
Highlights
- Led AI product strategy and conversation design for experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ international markets.
- Led product definition for LLM routing and grounded retrieval, reducing response time 25% and grounding answers in verified support content.
- Built and operate a live booking agent that connects the Anthropic API, Microsoft Graph, and Twilio for a DFW service business.
Experience
Founder & Principal Consultant · Intelligent CX Consulting, LLC
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (remote, US clients)
- Serve as embedded conversational AI consultant to an enterprise client, leading conversation design, prompt design, and UX strategy for production AI experiences (ongoing since April 2026).
- Run scoped conversational AI engagements focused on agent workflows, evaluation, intent taxonomies, and support architecture.
- Designed and built Boothly, a tool-using Claude agent for a photo booth business. A completed website flow produces a sourced quote, a tentative Outlook hold, and an owner SMS in under 60 seconds.
- Defined the product requirements, conversation flows, tool contracts, fallback behavior, and operating guardrails, then implemented the production system.
Conversation Designer · GoDaddy
- Led product strategy and conversation design for AI support experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ markets, working across product, engineering, data science, support, and operations.
- Led product definition for an LLM routing system that reduced average response time 25%.
- Defined the evaluation question, golden-set requirements, decision criteria, and recommendation for a six-week RAG comparison. The selected hybrid retrieval architecture later improved answer accuracy 45% against the pre-RAG baseline.
- Led an intent taxonomy redesign based on 50K+ conversations, restructuring intents to be mutually exclusive and reducing misrouting 30%.
- Contributed product, CX, and evaluation criteria to a comparison of OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock. Co-developed ROI recommendations that supported $500K+ in investment.
Workflow Author · Peloton
- Rebuilt self-service for a connected fitness product across 8 international markets: information architecture, decision trees, localization, and a product gap feedback loop that fed the roadmap.
- Resolution time down 40%, self-service adoption up 35%, support volume down 20%.
Selected projects
- Boothly Booking Concierge. Live tool-use agent for a real business: Claude (Anthropic SDK), Microsoft Graph, Twilio. Case study at christi.io/work/boothly-booking-concierge.
- RAG Pipeline Comparison. Public Python evaluation harness comparing three configurations across chunk size, overlap, cosine retrieval, and MMR. github.com/mrskinzo/rag-pipeline-comparison.
- christi.io. This site: Astro, a custom build pipeline, and a Claude powered chatbot grounded in my published writing.
Education
- M.S., Curriculum & Instruction
Texas A&M International University - Post-Graduate Certification, Technical Communication
University of North Texas - B.G.S., Business
Texas Woman's University
Certifications
Skills
- Conversation design
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Prompt architecture
- RAG evaluation
- Eval harness design
- Intent taxonomy
- LangFuse
- Dialogflow CX
- Azure AI Foundry
- AWS Bedrock
- Claude (Anthropic)
- JavaScript
- Python