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I help teams decide what to build.

Building software is cheap now. Deciding what to build is still slow. I work with the people who decide, and with AI, we get to a spec in days.

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Where I've worked

  • Regulated crypto
  • Banking
  • Healthcare
  • E-commerce
  • Energy
  • Security software

Clients I've worked for

When teams call me

It's usually one of these situations.

Everyone has an opinion on what to do, but nobody wants to make the call.

The spec keeps changing, so engineering waits or builds only the safe parts.

Any department can block it, but nobody sees all the constraints.

Decisions can't wait for a hire who starts in 6 months.

Done fast, with the people who decide.

A room after a workshop: walls covered in paper, sticky notes, and whiteboards

The room after a workshop. Options, sticky notes, and open questions on the walls.

Then I turn it into a
working prototype.

From problem to business spec: user flows, a customer journey, and a clickable prototype.

From the first meeting to the first version

Ten good ideas on Monday. One, decided and drawn, by Wednesday.

The first workshop, then a clickable first version the same week.

  1. Before we start

    Define the problem, the team, and the goal

    Before we start, we agree on the problem we're solving, who decides, and what we want to achieve.

  2. At the first meeting

    Options sketched during the meeting

    We work through options in the first meeting. Instead of debating opinions, you choose between 2 sketched alternatives.

  3. On day 2

    One direction, as a prototype

    A working demo with real copy, including what happens when something goes wrong. Every open question gets an owner and a deadline.

  4. Afterward

    A functional spec that engineering builds from

    It records every decision and why it was made, so the same argument doesn't come back in 6 weeks.

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AI can draw 10 options in an hour.

It can't tell which one compliance will reject, which one engineering can't build, and which one two departments will fight over. You learn it in hundreds of meetings and in projects that failed. I've had 13 years of those meetings, in banking, energy, and healthcare, so I know which options to drop before AI draws them.

Next step

Where are you stuck?

Write to me. In a 30-minute call, I'll tell you whether I can help, without slides or a long proposal.

Pavel Kroupa
On the call, you'll talk to me.