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Operating cadence
I build the rhythm a company runs on: goals, forecasts, reviews and the lightweight systems that keep a fast team aligned and accountable.
COO & product builder · AI & fintech
London, UK
Operator, from seed to scale.
I spent six years as COO taking a fintech from seed to £10.5M ARR, seven countries and a 110+ person team. Now I design, build and ship AI products end to end, solo. I turn a founder's vision into a company that executes.
Get in touch
£10.5M
ARR reached leading Outfund's commercial team
7
countries launched, UK to US
110+
person team in the org I ran as COO
4
AI products shipped end to end in the last year
What I bring
Vision to execution, end to end
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Hands-on building
AI-native and fluent from spec to shipped product. I prototype the idea myself instead of writing a brief about it.
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Commercial execution
Pricing, pipeline, partnerships, fundraising. I led Outfund's commercial team to £10.5M ARR and helped raise its £15M Series A.
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Team leadership
I've hired and led product, engineering, marketing, people and commercial, and set the standard for pace and ownership.
Building now · four live products
Four products, from idea to launch
I took each one from positioning and UX through engineering, data, launch and live operations.
VioMuse
Consumer AI
“Your personal AI sidekick.”
A personal AI companion you design: face, personality, presence. It remembers what matters, checks in daily and tracks the habits you care about.
Product work: realtime AI conversation, long-term memory, generated imagery and subscriptions: a full consumer product and brand.
viomuse.com ↗Live · 2026
RivalFlag
Competitive Intel
“Stay one move ahead.”
Follows your competitors and turns every pricing change, launch and key hire into a card the moment it happens. A feed, not a research job.
Product work: a continuous monitoring pipeline that turns raw competitor signals into AI-written briefings, with alerts and a live feed.
rivalflag.com ↗Live · 2026
VeroFlag
RegTech
“AML checks in one clear workflow.”
Sanctions, PEP and business-risk screening with match review, decisions and monitoring in one auditable workflow.
Product work: a screening engine over live global watchlist data with case management, evidence and a full audit trail. API-first.
veroflag.com ↗Live · 2026
ScopeHold
Agent Security
“Secure secret access for AI agents.”
OAuth and scoped secret grants for AI agents, so teams can give tools access without pasting long-lived keys into chats or terminals.
Product work: OAuth connection flow, project access, secret grants and a CLI path for task-scoped credentials.
scopehold.com ↗Live · 2026
Experience
Built companies, teams and products
Founder, AI Products
Independent
Nov 2025 – Present
London, UK
Designed, built and launched four live AI products: VioMuse, RivalFlag, VeroFlag and ScopeHold. I own positioning, brand, UX, product build, data and go-to-market.
Outfund
Chief Operating Officer · Revenue-based finance fintech
Dec 2019 – Oct 2025
London, UK
Joined at seed stage and spent six years building the company into an international lender; helped raise a £15M Series A.
£10.5M ARRLed the commercial team through the growth phase.
£15M raisedSeries A, on from the £250k seed I joined at.
7 marketsUK, US, Australia, Germany, Spain, Netherlands and Ireland.
110+ person teamRan product and engineering throughout; led marketing, people and commercial at different stages.
CreditDigital
FintechHead of Product
Jan 2018 – Dec 2019
London, UK
Led product at a B2B fintech streamlining instalment finance across industries. Owned roadmap, discovery and delivery, and grew the product function.
PolicyStore
RegTechProduct Manager
Jun 2016 – Mar 2017
Basel, CH
Set the roadmap for a Swiss compliance product, working across a small team on usability studies, market analysis and conversion testing.
Before tech
Legal technology & e-discovery. Coordinated cross-firm teams at Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May, Gibson Dunn and Epiq on cross-border matters worth $650m to $1bn+.
Senior associate lawyer. Led a team of six and 30+ transactions of $10m+ at J. Wang & Associates.
Army officer. Lieutenant, New Zealand Defence Force. Led and mentored 50+ soldiers and planned training exercises for up to 130 personnel.
Signed musician. Five-piece rock band on a major Japanese label: two albums and tours to crowds of up to 60,000.
Details
Education
IESE Business SchoolMBA, full-time program
University of AucklandLLB / BA (conjoint)
PSPO I, Professional Scrum Product Owner · 2017
Skills
Operational systemsProduct strategyAI-native buildingCommercial & GTMFundraising supportHiring & team leadershipFintech & regulationDesign & prototyping
Languages
EnglishNative
MandarinNative
SpanishElementary
Contact
Looking for a founding team.
COO and senior operator roles with AI and fintech startups, founding team to scale-up. If you need the person who turns vision into execution, and who builds alongside you, let's talk.
© 2026 Alan Lin