Who we are
We have 60 plus combined years of practitioner experience at Amazon, Miro, Usercentrics, Simpplr, Typeform, Lokalise, Smallpdf, and across dozens of product organizations we have built, advised, or trained. We are not analysts who observed a transformation. We are the people who ran them, shipped inside them, and installed the operating models that made them compound.
Methodology and Senior Practice
Ex-SVP Products at Miro, serving 60 million users. Ex-CPO at Lokalise and Smallpdf. Ex-COO at Typeform. Wharton MBA. Mike is actively building AI-native products with the exact methods we teach, from Oracle and Omnis to PromptOS and Forge.
Senior Practice and Regulated Industries
Former VP Product at Usercentrics, where he built the consent management platform running across 195 countries, 2.3M websites and apps, and capturing 7B consent signals monthly. Twenty-five years of operating experience from semiconductors at SGI to enterprise SaaS. Named a Top 25 Software Product Executive. Teaches Product and Design at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business and speaks at ProductCon and Mind the Product.
Product Operations and Delivery
Former PM at Amazon and startup founder, now serving as Chief Growth Officer at Product Circle, where he leads the global expansion of its community and training practice. He is also a product trainer and consultant supporting product teams in 500+ person companies leverage AI and automations across the product life cycle, and stay up to speed with modern product practices that drive real impact.
Product Practice and Community
Product management and product leadership across startups and consulting. Has set up product operating models, and advised leadership teams at companies across Europe. Founder and CEO of Product Circle, producer of the Product Thinking Podcast, and instructor across several product programs. Aerospace engineering from IST.
Our origin
Kairos is the Greek word for the right moment to act. AI and OS are embedded in the name. Our thesis is in our name.
We came together because we kept walking into the same room in every company we worked with. Teams with AI tools. Teams without an AI operating model. Engineers ahead of leadership. Leadership looking for a technology solution to a leadership problem. Investments compounding for nobody.
Four senior operators. Three in Portugal. One in Italy. We have built, shipped, scaled, and governed product organizations across regulated and unregulated industries for decades. We built Kairos to install the operating system that makes AI investments compound.
What we believe
It amplifies the strengths of high performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones. Most leadership teams are applying AI to broken processes and wondering why the outputs are broken.
Tooling is commoditized. The durable advantage is the operating model: how teams specify work, measure quality, design workflows, and govern decisions. That is where the gap compounds.
Companies that build to high risk standards from day one make products that are globally lower risk for investors, partners, and enterprise buyers. That is a valuation premium, not a compliance cost.
Operating model, talent development, measurement, governance. These are the fundamentals that compound. Skipping them produces the $7.2M average sunk cost.
