Building a product from 0 to 1
Every factory runs on standards, the checks, inspections and audits that say how work should be done. The product turns them into routines that detect when the shop floor drifts, and get the right person to act.
What I've done
- Rebuilt the company's most-used product from scratch: customers build their own forms, a daily check, an inspection sheet, a 5S audit, then schedule them and run them on a tablet on the shop floor
- Owned it end to end: program management, discovery, delivery and migration
- Ran the new product alongside the legacy one, so no customer lost a day of production
- Validated it with the largest customers before committing the build capacity
Phase 1
Build
Old serves every customer
New in development
Phase 2
Run both
Old still serves everyone
New live with paying customers
Phase 3
Migrate
Old switched off
New serves everyone
Rough size
- Engineers across two product teams, a third of engineering12
- Features shipped to date180
- Checks completed a day6,000
- Factory workers using it every day80,000
- Recurring revenue added through new features€1.5M ARR
Impact metrics
- 1 in 10
- euros of company recurring revenue comes from features I shipped
- 3,500 → 6,000
- checks completed a day, in two years
The first customers were paying for the new product before its official launch.