Hello. I'm Nitesh.
I help companies find product-market fit, build AI strategies, and take products to market. 20+ years turning vision into revenue at Adidas, IDnow, and PwC — now building at the intersection of AI and traditional industries.
I embed with startups, mid-sized companies, and large enterprises alike — as a fractional CPO, product lead, or technical co-founder. No advice from the sidelines. I join your team, get my hands dirty, and build and sell with you.
Validate your product hypothesis before scaling. Structured experiments, user research, and data-driven go/no-go frameworks.
LLM selection, RAG architecture, agentic workflows, and embedding strategies. Practical AI roadmaps grounded in real business value, not hype.
End-to-end plans for integrating AI into existing business processes. From opportunity assessment to implementation roadmap to change management.
Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your current workflows, then design AI-powered solutions that measurably improve throughput and quality.
From document intelligence to automated decision support. Build automation that handles the repetitive so your team can focus on the strategic.
Structured discovery calls, user interview frameworks, and early-stage product validation. Get signal from noise before you commit resources.
A CTO with deep technical expertise had built an AI-powered tender analysis engine for the German construction industry. The technology worked. What was missing was everything else — product strategy, commercial model, customer discovery, financial planning, and go-to-market.
I joined BlackSwanAI as Product Lead, but the reality of an early-stage startup means titles are fluid. Today I operate across three executive functions simultaneously:
Product discovery, feature prioritization, roadmap ownership. Customer interviews, usage analytics, and iterative validation. Translating AI capabilities into features users actually want.
Commercial strategy, enterprise sales, pricing models. Building business cases for enterprise customers and managing the full sales cycle from discovery to close.
Financial planning, business case development, investment strategy. Making sure the numbers work as well as the product does.
Beyond the business functions, I'm actively engaged in technical strategic decisions — LLM model selection and evaluation, RAG architecture design, agentic workflow orchestration, and AI product roadmap prioritization in direct collaboration with the CTO. This isn't arm's-length oversight. I'm in the codebase, evaluating embedding strategies, and architecting how the AI components fit together.
While building BlackSwanAI, real problems kept surfacing — procurement data was inaccessible, tender matching was manual, translation was fragmented. Each product was built to solve a specific gap, shipped with a commercial model, and put in front of real users.
Your AI radar for matching construction contracts.
Automatically matches construction companies with relevant public tenders across Germany. Scans thousands of daily procurement announcements and delivers personalized recommendations within 48 hours.
Open-source AI tools for construction procurement.
MCP servers for German construction — TED Server (500K+ EU tenders), DTVP Server (30K+ daily projects), GAEB Parser. Natural language queries through Claude AI.
Translate with AI power.
Multilingual translation platform powered by Mistral AI. 25+ languages, document translation, grammar checking, AI text improvement, and EU AI-Act compliance.
The GDPR-compliant Calendly alternative from Europe.
Open-source scheduling with Google Calendar sync, Meet links, embeddable widgets, and unlimited event types. EU data storage. Free self-hosted forever.
The all-in-one CRM & GTM platform for startups.
Find and manage leads, run social media campaigns, manage your sales pipeline, plan daily work and todos. A fully-blown CRM and go-to-market tool built for startup teams.
Every product began with a specific frustration I observed firsthand. Not market research slides — real people struggling with real inefficiencies.
One product reveals the next problem. Tender analysis needed data access (BauMCP), which needed matching (Auftragr), which needed translation (BlackSwanLingo).
Every product has a deliberate model. Freemium for acquisition, open source for trust, SaaS for revenue. Building is only half the job — if you can't sell it, it doesn't exist.
Six products shipped. Each one taught me something the previous couldn't. Real users on real products beats perfecting something nobody has tried.
Product Leader who builds and sells — with AI expertise, P&L ownership, and deep experience in regulated, compliance-driven domains. 20+ years building products and leading teams across global enterprises and European scaleups — from wearable technology at Adidas to digital identity verification at IDnow to AI-powered construction tech at BlackSwanAI.
I specialize in translating complex technical capabilities — GenAI, LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic workflows — into user-facing products that solve real business problems and generate revenue.
Whether you need AI strategy, product validation, or a fractional product leader who builds and sells alongside your team — let's talk.