Gabriel Fontaine
Fractional & Advisory Engagements

Executive product muscle without the full-time overhead.

Guiding growth-stage fintechs, risk intelligence platforms, and regulated enterprise divisions through identity data licensing, compliance-first API architecture, and platform scaling.

Advisory Modes

Flexible engagements designed around concrete delivery outcomes rather than open-ended hours.

Interim Product Leadership

Serving as fractional VP or Head of Product to guide teams, mentor product managers, optimize sprint cadences, and build board-ready product roadmaps during growth or leadership transitions.

  • • Agile cadence & intake structures
  • • Multi-year product vision & CapEx models
  • • Cross-functional stakeholder alignment

Identity & Risk GTM

Translating regulatory obligations (CIP, KYC, KYB, AML) into scalable API architectures, packaging data payloads, and designing self-serve or batch enterprise delivery systems.

  • • Credit header & identity verification data
  • • Permissible-use data governance models
  • • Enterprise sales demo portals

GenAI Product Operations

Implementing practical tooling (Gemini, ROVO, custom Python/Co-Lab pipelines) to rapidly unpack dense regulatory data payloads into fast stakeholder insights.

  • • Custom rapid data triage scripts
  • • RegTech compliance documentation ops
  • • Rapid prototyping for risk signals

The Problem Playbook

Direct solutions to the roadblocks facing growth-stage identity and data companies.

Challenge

"Our compliance requirements create too much onboarding drop-off."

Solution

Implement progressive profiling and purposeful data-governance models that map exact permissible-use rules to API requests, verifying identities in real time without unnecessary user friction.

Challenge

"Enterprise risk buyers stall our 9-month sales cycle."

Solution

Design interactive, production-grade demonstration sandboxes that let enterprise risk and compliance officers evaluate actual data payloads and match rates before contracting.

Challenge

"Our engineering organization has outgrown its informal processes."

Solution

Establish clear product intake frameworks, roadmap prioritization matrixes, and Agile sprint rituals proven across 45-person technical organizations.

Engagement Structures

Flexible Ways to Collaborate

Tailored around concrete milestones rather than open-ended consulting hours:

Targeted Sprint Audit

A rapid 2-to-4 week assessment evaluating your API packaging, compliance data governance, or product team intake workflows.

Retained Fractional VP

10–20 hours per week embedded with your leadership team driving roadmap execution, customer discussions, and team alignment.

Strategic Advisory

Regular bi-weekly executive coaching and roadmap sounding-board sessions for founders, CPOs, and product leaders.

Fractional Availability

Inquire About an Engagement

Let's discuss your product bottlenecks, timeline, and current roadmap requirements.