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 and took end-to-end ownership — from discovery and validation through roadmap execution to commercial strategy and revenue. In an early-stage startup, great product leadership means owning the full journey:
Owning the complete product lifecycle — identifying opportunities, validating with real users, prioritizing ruthlessly, shipping fast, and building the commercial engine that turns features into revenue.
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.
Products I've defined, built, and shipped — from enterprise platforms at global companies to a full SaaS ecosystem at a startup. Each one started with a real problem, shipped to real users, and drove measurable impact.
Your tender radar for the German construction industry.
Scans five major procurement platforms daily — TED, Bund.de, DTVP, Bayern, and NRW. Intelligent CPV-code matching, personal dashboard, email alerts, and direct links to original tender documents. €10/month flat.
MCP Server Marketplace for German construction.
Three production-ready MCP servers — @baumcp/ted (500K+ EU tenders), @baumcp/dtvp (30K+ daily projects), @baumcp/gaeb (X83–X86 file parsing). Natural language queries through Claude AI.
AI-powered translation for 28 languages.
Text, document, and photo translation powered by dual AI engines (Mistral AI + Groq Llama). 28 languages, formal/informal modes, OCR photo translation, grammar checking, social media content tools, and full EU AI-Act compliance.
The Calendly alternative from Germany.
GDPR-compliant scheduling with Google Calendar sync, Meet, Zoom, and Teams links. Meeting transcripts, embeddable widgets, unlimited event types, and enterprise-grade security. EU data storage in Frankfurt. From €1/month.
The operating system for startup growth.
AI-powered CRM and GTM platform with 15+ modules. Lead discovery and enrichment, pipeline management with AI scoring, market intelligence, bilingual content generation, social media scheduling, LinkedIn engagement tools, and weekly execution planning. Built and hosted in Germany.
One platform. One SDK. Every identity verification method.
Defined the blueprint and strategy at Europe's top identity verification provider. Consolidated all IDV and qualified electronic signature products into a single platform with one SDK — replacing fragmented integrations. Landed two of the country's largest banks as enterprise customers.
Real-time ball tracking for the biggest stage in football.
Led R&D at one of the world's leading sporting goods manufacturers. Developed connected ball technology for the World Cup in Qatar. Coined the concept of offside detection using in-field sensor arrays. Open-sourced the initial idea, then brought the technical execution in-house.
Keeping kids safe and active during sports class.
Built and took to market a smart fitness watch for US schools at one of the world's leading sporting goods manufacturers. Real-time heart rate monitoring for students during PE — with alerts for teachers on irregular heart rates, overexertion, and obesity-related risks. Helping prevent injuries before they happen.
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.