Your Product Director resigned.
Keep product decisions moving while you find the right replacement.
Lumia Studio
Product leadership. Hands-on delivery.
From understanding the customer problem to building the product and leading the team. Practical support shaped around what your business needs.
Business tools and automationBuilt for the moments your roadmap cannot wait for.
Explore the moments Lumia can step into.
Board meeting next Thursday.
Pressure-test the roadmap before you present it.
Engineering is waiting.
Challenge the next big decision before months of work disappear.
Everyone wants an AI strategy.
Separate genuine opportunities from expensive distractions.
Everything comes through you.
Stop being the bottleneck for every product decision.
You have an idea. What should you build?
Understand the customer problem, test the proposition and decide what to build first.
From understanding to delivery.
Senior product experience and practical building, with the scope and level of support agreed around your business.
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Start with the problem
Understand the business and its customers before committing to a solution. Find the problem worth solving and agree what success looks like.
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Clear next steps
Starter turns a few focused days of discovery into findings and prioritised recommendations within two weeks of starting.
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Senior leadership throughout
Every engagement is led by John Gutch, with experience building products, businesses and teams at BT, Vodafone and Hive.
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Build as well as advise
Move from a roadmap into working products, with hands-on prototyping and software development or leadership of your team and specialist partners.
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Support that fits
Choose focused discovery, monthly product delivery or embedded leadership, with scope, commitment and fees agreed around the work required.
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Practical use of AI
Use AI where it helps: research, prototyping, software development and everyday processes. Each application starts with a useful business outcome.
The product leader you wish was already in the room.
Our Product Director just left. What now?Which bets deserve the next quarter?Turn this strategy into decisions.Pressure-test the board narrative.Are we solving the right customer problem?Where is product delivery actually stuck?What should the founder stop owning?Build a prototype we can put in front of customers.Our Product Director just left. What now?Which bets deserve the next quarter?Turn this strategy into decisions.Pressure-test the board narrative.Are we solving the right customer problem?Where is product delivery actually stuck?What should the founder stop owning?Build a prototype we can put in front of customers.
Is this AI opportunity real?Which customer segment should we back?Why is activation falling?How should we price this?Challenge the investment case.What evidence do we need before building?Cut this roadmap in half.Design our product operating model.Is this AI opportunity real?Which customer segment should we back?Why is activation falling?How should we price this?Challenge the investment case.What evidence do we need before building?Cut this roadmap in half.Design our product operating model.
Review the leadership team structure.Help us hire the right product leader.Should we buy, partner or build?What do we stop funding?Turn customer noise into priorities.Replace this spreadsheet with a working tool.Reset the next 90 days.Give engineering a clear direction.Review the leadership team structure.Help us hire the right product leader.Should we buy, partner or build?What do we stop funding?Turn customer noise into priorities.Replace this spreadsheet with a working tool.Reset the next 90 days.Give engineering a clear direction.
Products built. Businesses launched.
New businesses inside large organisations, international product launches and software in everyday use. The work behind the experience.
Find the right support for your business.
Understand the problem, build the solution or bring senior product leadership into your team. Scope and support shaped around what your business needs.
Starter
A few focused days understanding your business, your customers and the problem worth solving. Clear findings and recommended next steps within two weeks of starting.
2 weeks
- Customer and business discovery
- Review of existing journeys and processes
- Clear problem definition
- Prioritised recommendations and next steps
Build & deliver
Studio
For businesses ready to build and deliver.
Product leadership and hands-on delivery for small and medium-sized businesses. Create a new product, improve a customer journey or build tools that help the business run better.
Monthly
- Product strategy and prioritisation
- Hands-on prototyping and software delivery
- Customer journeys and business tools
- Practical AI and automation
- One agreed workstream at a time
- Regular progress and delivery reviews
Executive
An experienced product leader embedded in your leadership team, taking ownership of strategy, people and delivery. From substantial fractional support to near full-time involvement.
Embedded
- Product strategy and portfolio direction
- Team leadership and coaching
- Executive and board involvement
- Delivery and transformation ownership
- Organisation design and hiring
- Fractional to near full-time support
Experience behind the work.
Every engagement is led directly by John Gutch, a product executive and venture builder. Experience spans BT, Vodafone and Hive, alongside current client work and ventures including Livensa, SolarTyle, PikClub and Foremates.
The obvious questions, answered.
Why wouldn't we just hire a Product Director?
A permanent product leader may be the right answer. Lumia can help while you recruit, lead a defined programme or build something your current team cannot take on. An initial call helps establish which form of support fits your business.
Is this fractional product leadership?
Executive is embedded product leadership, from substantial fractional support to near full-time involvement.
Studio combines product leadership with hands-on delivery for small and medium-sized businesses. Starter is a focused discovery engagement to understand the problem and recommend next steps.
Is every engagement led by John?
Yes. John leads the work and stays involved in the decisions and delivery. Where specialist partners are needed, their involvement is agreed as part of the scope.
How much time is included?
The level of involvement is agreed before starting. Starter involves a few focused working days across two weeks. Studio is monthly delivery around an agreed workstream. Executive is a more substantial commitment within your leadership team.
How fast do we get something useful?
Starter produces clear findings and recommended next steps within two weeks of starting. For Studio and Executive, priorities, milestones and review points are agreed around the work required.
What could we work on together?
A new proposition, a better booking journey, software to replace manual processes, or a product team that needs clearer direction. The work can span customer discovery, strategy, prototyping, software delivery, practical AI and team leadership.
Can you help build as well as advise?
Yes. Lumia combines product leadership with hands-on prototyping and software development, working directly or alongside existing teams and specialist partners. Recent examples include SolarTyle's quoting software and PikClub, both personally built by John.
The scope and approach are agreed before starting.
How are fees and commitments agreed?
After an initial call, the scope, fees, level of involvement and terms are agreed in writing before work starts. That includes the duration of the engagement and how changes or an end to the work will be handled.
Start with a conversation
See if Lumia Studio is the right fit.
Start with what you want to build, improve or work through. A short conversation to explore the problem and the support your business needs.