Engineering that the P&L can feel.

Fawad Bhatti, Fractional CPO and Tech Lead
Fawad Bhatti · Geneva / London
The Thesis

Most technical partners optimise for shipping code. I optimise for what the code produces commercially — the architecture that lets a business absorb enterprise load, pass a GDPR audit, and sign the next ten clients.

01 — The Operating Principle

Infrastructure that survives scale, not demos that impress investors.

After twelve years in engineering reviews and board meetings, one pattern is impossible to ignore. The demo closes the round. The plumbing decides whether the company survives the scale it just promised.

I work the second half of that story. Secure data stores, evaluation loops, headless integrations, retrieval architectures built with strict citation grounding. The parts that do not screenshot well, but decide whether an enterprise buyer signs and whether a GDPR audit passes.

The rule: every engineering decision should be justifiable in the language of the P&L. Capacity unlocked, capital saved, risk retired, revenue defensible. If a technical choice cannot survive that translation, it is a cost I will not add to your business.

02 — The Duality

I have sat on both sides of the strategy table.

A · The Commercial Lens

Technology must have a measurable ROI.

MBA at HEC Paris, advanced leadership training at Saint-Cyr. At Hilti AG I built an AI-synthesised competitive intelligence system embedded in the sales CRM — a P&L decision, not a product roadmap one. I measure success the same way: capacity unlocked, capital saved.

B · The Technical Execution

I ship what I advise.

B.E. Electrical Engineering, built on low-level systems. I architect the infrastructure that makes AI-assisted products commercially reliable: evaluation loops, guardrails, retrieval systems, MCP integration layers. I take full technical ownership so founders return to the commercial seat.

The same rigour applied at enterprise scale, brought to your platform.

03 — Founder Empathy

I understand the founder bottleneck. Because I have lived in it.

I am a 3× founder. Raised R&D funding, managed hardware supply chains in China, scaled early-stage platforms to thousands of users. I know what it feels like to be trapped in the codebase at 2 a.m. when a sales presentation is due at 9.

The product demands build hours. The business demands selling hours. The week splits badly and nothing compounds. Commercial leverage — the one thing no hire can replace — gets spent on execution work an engineering bench should own.

I built the Fractional CPO + Tech Lead model to resolve that. You keep the vision, the customers, the commercial seat. I take technical execution off your plate — fixed-cost, no equity, no rewrites. You reclaim roughly twenty hours a week.

04 — Track Record

Sanitised proof points. (NDAs intact.)

01 Enterprise Scale

AI-synthesised battle cards for Hilti AG.

Deployed · 68 countries · 9,000 managers

£10.1M cost reduction, 43% A/B-tested pipeline-velocity uplift. End-to-end: retrieval, synthesis, CRM-embedded delivery.

68
Countries
deployed
9k
Managers
served
£10.1M
Operational
cost reduction
02 Zero-Hallucination RAG

Co-founded PageBreak.ai — board-level document intelligence.

Zero-hallucination retrieval · strict citation grounding

Retrieval stack from first principles: 96% accuracy on board-pack extraction, strict citation grounding, an evaluation harness that could survive a regulator's eye.

96%
Extraction
accuracy
0
Hallucinations,
launch & post-scale
100%
Citation
grounding
03 Rapid Deployment

AI-native CRM with 8+ MCP integrations — built in one week.

For a growth-stage operator · headless integrations · automated ops

Shipped in a single sprint. Replaced brittle manual ops with an automated pipeline. Recurring interventions dropped to zero, audit traceability intact.

8+
MCP servers
integrated
1 wk
From zero
to deployed
0
Daily manual
interventions remaining
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