Independent AI product consultant

Turn an unclear AI opportunity into a product your team can confidently build.

I help SaaS founders and product leaders choose the right use case, define the smallest useful release, and make it tangible in five focused days.

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13 years in product · Founder of Vivid Resume · Working remotely with teams worldwide

When the opportunity is real but the direction is not

Move before uncertainty becomes expensive.

The sprint is designed for the moment between “we should do something with AI” and committing a team, roadmap, or development budget.

01Signal

Too many possible use cases

Prioritize the opportunity that creates meaningful value and can be tested without a sprawling program.

What it createsScattered investment
02Signal

A solution without a sharp problem

Reconnect the AI idea to a user, a business outcome, and evidence that can change a decision.

What it createsWeak evidence
03Signal

A team waiting for direction

Give design, engineering, and leadership one understandable first release instead of competing assumptions.

What it createsSlow execution
What the sprint changes

Competing assumptions become one opportunity, one release boundary, and one decision path the team can act on.

AI Product Direction Sprint

A decision package—not another strategy deck.

Five focused days turn a broad AI ambition into one product direction your team can discuss, test, and confidently plan around.

  1. 01
    Choose

    One opportunity worth pursuing

    A prioritized AI use case connected to a user need and business outcome.

  2. 02
    Shape

    A first release people can see

    Clear in, out, and later boundaries plus a clickable prototype of the core journey.

  3. 03
    De-risk

    An evidence-led next move

    Expected AI behavior, failure modes, an evaluation plan, and a sequenced 90-day roadmap.

The work stands alone. Your team can take it forward without a continuing engagement.

A deliberate week

Five days. Each decision narrows the next.

No workshop theatre and no disappearing for weeks. Every day ends with a concrete decision, so you can see broad ambition becoming buildable direction.

  1. Day one

    Understand

    Align on the user problem, business outcome, evidence, and constraints.

    Decision gainedProblem + success signal
  2. Day two

    Prioritize

    Compare use cases by user value, business value, feasibility, and risk.

    Decision gainedOne use case to pursue
  3. Day three

    Shape

    Set the smallest useful release and make its in, out, and later boundaries explicit.

    Decision gainedTestable release scope
  4. Day four

    Prototype

    Make the core journey tangible and pressure-test its most important assumptions.

    Decision gainedClickable core journey
  5. Day five

    Decide

    Review the evidence, AI risks, evaluation plan, and recommended sequence.

    Direction ready90-day recommendation
Proof through product

The advice comes from shipping my own AI product.

Vivid Resume is a shipped closed-beta product—not a workshop exercise. Building it forced the same decisions I help teams make: where AI is useful, what the first release should include, and what must be true before users can trust it.

  1. 01
    Found the useful focus

    Moved beyond a generic résumé generator to a product organized around the specific job someone wants.

  2. 02
    Carried direction through delivery

    Directed the user journey, AI behavior, scope, payments, edge cases, and the quality bar for generated work.

  3. 03
    Turned failures into a method

    Real product mistakes became safeguards in the Auteur Framework—not polished theory written before the work.

What that means for your team

I bring founder-level scrutiny to the opportunity before expensive implementation begins—and leave your team with a direction they can examine, challenge, and build.

See the decisions behind it View the closed beta
imvivid.comClosed beta
Vivid ResumeBuilt around the job—not a generic template.
  1. 01 · UnderstandTarget roleThe opportunity sets the direction.
  2. 02 · GroundReal experienceThe person’s evidence sets the boundary.
  3. 03 · CreateUseful materialsAI helps tailor work the user can review.

AI assists. The user stays able to understand, edit, and stand behind the result.

Ownership
Founder-led
Delivery
End to end
Status
Closed beta
Client perspective

A founder’s view of the work.

Gabriel’s contributions were invaluable. His expertise significantly impacted our project’s success.

Ilya Pozin
Founder perspective Ilya Pozin

Founder & CEO, Telly
Co-Founder, Pluto TV

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Your next decision

Bring the AI opportunity your team cannot make clear yet.

You do not need a polished brief. Share the opportunity, the pressure behind it, and what is still uncertain. I’ll assess whether a focused five-day sprint is the right next move.

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