AI Native Designer

Senior Product Designer building products that make millions in ARR.

ARR added across three products

while leading product design
  • +€3.5mBackbase
  • +€7.5mWorkwize
  • +£0.3mXelix, new product

Delivery experience, client CSAT

baselineafter redesign

Hypothesis over opinion.

Products people
don't have to think about.

Three products, one standard: the right next step should feel inevitable, for the customer and for the business.

Shipping and delivery that clients could finally trust.

Case study in progress

€4.5m → €12m ARR while leading product design

  • Live delivery status, ETA and smart updates inside the order itself
  • Delay emails and a daily digest that answer “Where is my order?” before anyone asks
  • Post-test CSAT: proactiveness 27 → 60, clarity 36 → 70
Workwize order page showing a delivery issue found, the shipment status and smart updates

AP Agent Builder. Making the technical, simple.

Coming soon

Specialist generative AI tooling for accounts payable, built from zero at a UK fintech. The full story is being written while the product ships.

£0 → £0.3m ARR on a new product, current role

Marketing tool on the verge of collapse, to an in-demand product.

The product was about to be shut down. Through product strategy and execution, I turned it into a multi-million-euro product.

€0.8m → €4.3m ARR during the scale-up

Founded, built
and shipped alone.

Independent products on the App Store. I do not stop at the recommendation: I make the decision, build it, and learn from the market.

Electric car charging in a dark studio, the cable glowing amber
  • £440 across 6 users
  • From April onwards

Ember EV

The car charges itself. Nobody in the loop.

Solo iOS app. Tesla smart-charging against Octopus Agile pricing: it finds the cheapest window overnight and charges on its own.

A rising sun over a dark horizon, the Upside News UK graphic
  • 2 classifiers, good and bad
  • 1 summariser
  • Web and iOS

Upside News UK

I trained it on good and bad. Then I shipped the model.

A positive UK news product on web and iOS. I built and trained the good/bad classifiers and the summariser, so calm reading is the default.

Writing that makes
decisions visible.

I write about the decisions behind products, in the open on LinkedIn. These are the threads I keep pulling on.

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  1. Don't make me think

    Why the best interaction is the one nobody notices.

  2. Design that moves the number

    What product design owes the business, and why that pressure is useful.

  3. Hypothesis over opinion

    Tickets, client calls and behaviour beat taste. Then move fast enough to learn.

  4. Shipping solo

    What founding two apps taught me about product that employment could not.

Commercial ownership,
powered by simplicity.

Great product design is the moment someone relaxes because the product already knows what comes next. Three principles get me there.

Don't make me think.

If a client has to work to understand the product, the product is wrong. Silent, obvious, inevitable.

Reality over theatre.

Support tickets, churn risk, client calls and behaviour beat opinion. See the signal, make the call.

Progress over perfection.

I thrive with trust, ambiguity and a team that would rather learn today than perfect a deck tomorrow.

The path so far

  1. Pepper MoneyWhere the craft startedEarly career
  2. Backbase€0.8m → €4.3m ARRScale-up. Near-layoff, then resilience.
  3. Workwize€4.5m → €12m ARRScale-up. Velocity through alignment.
  4. Xelix£0 → £0.3m ARRNow. AI-powered accounts payable.

Away from the work.

  • Newcastle United
  • Lewis Hamilton
  • Padel

Let's build what businesses can bet on.

Myles Carey