Howdy, I'm Sam Zoloth
I'm a product leader currently:
- -giving artists more time to create at
a major animation studio - -helping my team get more value out of AI at
Amdocs - -building things for family, friends, and my community
You can see what I was doing before that below ↓
Long-form
What happens when building software costs nothing?
A 9-chapter thesis on how AI is restructuring software economics, product management, and defensibility.
Read the thesisWhat people say
Trusted by teams at major animation studios, healthcare startups, and Fortune 500 companies.
“Sam can take a ton of information from different sources and distill it down to what actually matters. That's huge for product work.”
— Bret Janak, VP of Design, Stellar Elements
“A great manager is a rare and invaluable gift. Sam Zoloth was that great manager for me.”
— Darci Nevitt, Data Analyst, Stellar Elements (reported to Sam for 4 years)
“Everyone on our team bounces ideas and strategy off of Sam because we know how thoughtful he is.”
— Jordan Daly, Content Strategist, Stellar Elements
Experience
A decade building products across domains.
Margin — annotation and reading tool
Built Margin, a Tauri + React desktop reading tool where annotations don't just accumulate — they compound. Highlights feed a DSPy + GEPA pipeline that synthesizes writing rules, which in turn train a correction model. 240+ rules generated from a personal annotation corpus.
Artists, Not Archivists
Transformed how a major animation studio manages 20+ years of creative assets. Led product strategy for a digital asset platform, reducing asset discovery from 15-30 minutes to under 60 seconds while shifting the team from reactive feature delivery to discovery-driven development.
Analytics Strategy Framework - Organizational Transformation
Developed proprietary Action vs. Clarity Matrix framework driving systematic cultural change, multi-million dollar sales wins, and +46% CRO improvement through analytics capability building.
Margin — annotation and reading tool
Artists, Not Archivists
Analytics Strategy Framework - Organizational Transformation
AI Companion Launch in 30 Days
AI-Powered Market Research in 2 Weeks
Transportation Management System Strategy
Ferry Booking System Redesign
AI-Powered Education Platform Strategy
Scaling From Stealth to Unicorn
Consumer Health Subscription Growth
What I'm writing about
Thoughts on product, technology, and building things.
Design in the Age of Agents
Two transformations are underway in product design. The first is about process: new tools, new workflow, new role. The second is about environment: the products designers build now exist in a world where AI agents can modify, bypass, and route around them. Most coverage of AI and design focuses on the first. This piece covers both.
Context as Product
The products that will ride the AI wave aren't building better chatbots. They're making specific types of context frictionless to collect and frictionless to share. A framework for thinking about where that opportunity is and how it plays out.
The Re-Rise of Remix Culture
SaaS averaged everyone's needs into one product. Personal software goes the other direction. One tool, one person, built right. The interesting part is what happens when you open-source what you built for yourself.