I work directly with founders and accountable product leaders inside founder-led software and SaaS teams—deciding what deserves to be built, designing the complete experience, engineering the product, and carrying it through release.
13 years across product · Founder of Vivid Resume · AI-first, not AI-required
Three separate engagements for different product moments. Pay for the missing decision or responsibility—not a generic block of consulting time.
Choose one use case, define one focused release, and inspect the uncertainty most likely to change the build decision.
Carry one defined release through experience design, direct implementation, verification, launch, stabilization, and handover.
Keep priorities, technical decisions, contributors, quality, and releases connected across the existing team.
Every engagement has an explicit boundary. No path forces an automatic continuation.
The written scope makes implementation, specialist involvement, review authority, cost, quality, and release responsibility explicit before work begins.
Product, UX, and technical direction; integration; quality and release recommendation; records and handover—within the written remit.
The roles below may combine when scope requires. They are not mandatory layers or separate packages.I personally design and implement the core responsive web, PWA, or Expo-native product when included in a Focused Product Build or a named hands-on Fractional allocation.
Named contributors keep delivery ownership while I connect priorities, architecture, acceptance, risk, and release recommendations within a Fractional remit.
The capability, person, responsibility, contracting party, fee, review boundary, and integration owner are explicit before the work expands.
Vivid Resume is publicly presented as a closed-beta product. This founder-authored case records how I carried an uncertain AI opportunity into a bounded release; it is not an independent product audit.
A broad résumé-generation idea needed a useful user problem, a trustworthy AI boundary, and a first release small enough to finish.
I owned product definition, experience design, AI behavior, implementation, integrations, quality review, and release judgment.
The public page shows the closed-beta label and proposition. My first-party implementation record covers the target-job workflow, user control, integrations, payments, and failure states.
Evidence boundary: the founder-controlled public page verifies presence, release label, and communicated proposition—not authenticated functionality. Adoption, retention, revenue, and customer outcomes are not established.
I can help decide what deserves to be built, then—when useful—remain accountable as the defined release becomes responsive web, PWA, or Expo-based native product software.
Explore the Focused Product BuildAI assists. The user stays able to understand, edit, and stand behind the result.
Gabriel’s contributions were invaluable. His expertise significantly impacted our project’s success.
Founder & CEO, Telly
Co-Founder, Pluto TV
Bring what is already known, what remains uncertain, and the release your team believes should exist. The first call identifies the responsible starting point—or confirms that none of these engagements fit.
Direct with Gabriel · 30 minutes · No obligation to continue