Parnia Sebti

Parnia Sebti

Parnia Sebti is a project and account manager at Refact, coordinating teams, clients, timelines, and delivery across the studio’s work. She helps keep projects organized from planning through execution, making sure communication stays clear and priorities stay aligned. Her role connects client needs with the internal team’s workflow, helping turn requirements, feedback, and moving parts into structured delivery. At Refact, Parnia also contributes to shaping the internal tools and processes the team uses to manage projects more effectively and keep work moving with clarity.

A patient’s tablet and a clinic’s message inbox share the same test-result question, with a visible staff owner and response window.
by Parnia Sebti

Patient Portal Development That Gets Used

Almost every U.S. hospital already has a patient portal. According to ASTP/ONC’s analysis of 2024 American Hospital Association data, 99% of non-federal acute care hospitals let patients view their health information online, and 92% offer secure messaging. Use is a different story. In 2024, only 65% of people had been offered access and actually used […]

A printed membership delivery plan carries live sessions and member conversations all the way to first renewal, while the foundational library stays at the beginning.
by Parnia Sebti

How to Create a Membership Site That Lasts

More than 170 people joined Breakthrough Brand’s All Access membership in its launch week. A few months later it closed. Demand was there. What its creator didn’t want was the work that came with it: new content every month, selling the renewal, and members expecting direct access to her. Most guides on how to create […]

A one-page product strategy sits in front of a $30,000 build quote, with the first customer, bet, exclusions, and evidence bar made explicit before work begins.
by Parnia Sebti

Product Strategy Framework: The Decisions That Matter

Maya has three customer interviews, a landing page that gets some interest, and a Notion document full of feature ideas. A developer has quoted $30,000 to build version one. She still can’t answer the question behind the quote: who is this product for first, and what would prove it deserves the money? Most people in […]

A technical experiment and a clickable workflow sketch sit on opposite sides of a single risk decision.
by Parnia Sebti

Proof of Concept vs Prototype: How to Pick

Enterprise teams launched an average of 33 AI proofs of concept in 2023. Only about four reached wide deployment, according to the IDC and Lenovo CIO Playbook. S&P Global’s Voice of the Enterprise survey of 1,006 professionals put it another way: 46% of AI projects were scrapped between the proof of concept and broad adoption, […]

Three printed roadmap formats overlap on a planning desk; an outcome-based roadmap sits in focus, with evidence, owners, and decisions visible beside its priorities.
by Parnia Sebti

Product Roadmap Template: 10 Practical Picks

Most product roadmaps don’t fail because the template was wrong. They fail because the people in the room never actually agreed on the plan, and the document made it easy to hide that disagreement. A roadmap with a polished timeline gets signed off. But engineering quietly disagrees with parts of it, and sales pictures a […]

A product-design canvas connects user evidence and a risky assumption to one focused first-release prototype, while the larger feature list fades into the background.
by Parnia Sebti

The Digital Product Design Process, Honestly

Most digital products die long before any code goes live. They usually die in the first two weeks, when a founder with real domain knowledge tries to turn that knowledge into a build plan and instead gets talked into producing a feature list rather than making a decision. The list keeps growing, deadlines slip, and […]

A weekly discovery memo covers a pre-launch roadmap, with two customer conversations leading to a circled “RESHAPE” decision before the next build.
by Parnia Sebti

Continuous Product Discovery for Founders

The excitement after a product launch is usually gone within three weeks. By then, there is some calm in Slack and activity on the product development roadmap you created prior to launch. So, you know what you need to do to ship the next product feature. But you are less certain if it is the […]

A phone’s voice interface pauses after “Change my plan” and offers two clear choices instead of guessing.
by Parnia Sebti

Voice User Interface Design: A Practical Guide

Voice keeps arriving in product roadmaps for the wrong reason. A customer asked for hands-free access. A competitor shipped a voice skill. A weekend demo of an LLM turned two hours of speech into what looked like a working assistant. Someone on the team says, “We can add that.” The harder question is always whether […]

A client portal holds a submitted W-9 at a human review gate, with kickoff visibly blocked until the file is accepted.
by Parnia Sebti

Client Onboarding Portal: A Practical Guide

You have the contract in ink as of Tuesday. Yet come Friday, the W-9 is languishing in a Slack DM, an ID upload has been in the spam folder since last night and someone from your side has to put the client on the spot for brand assets that were already turned over. It is […]

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