I was the only product manager on a team of five, from October 2025 to November 2026. I wrote Pane Lark's story and puzzles, nine chapters in four languages, and designed the hint system, an easy and a hard mode, and the rules for when a player can move on.

To understand why players got stuck, I labeled every page of the game in PostHog as a real clue, a red herring, or filler. That let us trace wrong answers back to what had misled people, and we started offering easy mode after 10 to 15 minutes without progress. Before each release, scripted AI players ran all eight endings to check for broken paths and spoilers.

Pane Lark reached more than 200 players in its first two weeks without paid ads, mostly through Reddit, a short trailer, and emails to 16 media outlets and YouTube creators. Before Pane Lark, I wrote the product spec for Mapier's first app, a map-based social product, and argued for the move to AI agents.