Arian Garshi
Senior Consultant · Founder, Bandos AI
Arian is a senior consultant with deep expertise in frontend development, UX design, and AI integration. As the founder of Bandos AI, he has taken the product from research and prototyping to full-stack launch. His experience spans leading frontend teams at Equinor, building AI pipelines at Head Energy, and delivering complete digital solutions across the energy, tech, and startup sectors. He holds a Master's in Information Science from the University of Bergen.
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9 articlesHow to Write a Good Jobs To Be Done Statement
A bad JTBD statement points at a feature. A good one points at a moment. Here's how to tell the difference and write statements your team can actually build from.
How to Know When You've Done Enough Discovery
Discovery doesn't have a natural finish line. Teams that do too little ship the wrong thing. Teams that do too much never ship at all. Here's how to tell which trap you're in.
How Agencies Run Discovery Workshops for Clients Without Losing Control of the Room
Client workshops have dynamics that internal ones don't. Here's how agencies maintain structure, extract honest signal, and still make the client feel heard.
Why Stakeholder Workshops Fail Differently Than Team Workshops
The failure modes in a cross-functional stakeholder session are different from what goes wrong in a product team workshop. Understanding the difference changes how you design for both.
The Setup Phase: Where Workshops Quietly Die Before Ideas Even Start
Bad workshops rarely fail because of bad ideas. They fail because teams skip alignment on the problem, constraints, and decision rules. This is how workshops quietly derail before ideation even begins.
Why AI Should Generate Options, Not Make Decisions
AI is best when it multiplies the set of high quality options for teams to choose from. Give AI the job of exploring possibilities and surfacing trade offs rather than asking it to pick the final path.
How Social Bias and Missing Criteria Sabotage Workshop Decisions
Most ideation workshops fail not because teams lack creativity, but because the process collapses under bias, social dynamics, and poor structure. This article breaks down the real failure modes and what reliably fixes them.
Brainstorming vs Structured Ideation: What Actually Leads to Better Product Decisions
Brainstorming is great at generating ideas, but often poor at producing decisions. This article explains the difference between brainstorming and structured ideation, and why structure is what turns creativity into outcomes.
Why Most Ideation Workshops Fail to Produce Decisions
Many ideation workshops generate energy, ideas, and sticky notes, but still fail to produce clear decisions. This article breaks down why that happens and how to structurally fix it.