tumbric

A product lab helping teams turn
early-stage ideas into shipped products.

Run by Fred

  • 12+ years as an early engineer in fast-growing startups, from teams of three to 3,000+.
  • Previously director-level IC at Monzo working across product, payments infra & operations.
  • Now building and advising on AI-heavy products, developer tools and magical apps.

What I help with

  • Turning ambiguous product ideas into shipped software.
  • Designing day-0 codebases, infrastructure and engineering workflows.
  • Building polished consumer apps, B2B products and internal tools.
  • Improving AI product quality, latency and cost.
  • Helping founders make great technical choices that pay over years.

Delivery

  • Early product builds and customer-validation prototypes.
  • AI product implementation, evaluation and post-training.
  • Developer tools, internal platforms and infrastructure.
  • Performance work across LLM inference, training and product latency.

Advisory

  • Zero-to-one product and engineering strategy.
  • Team structure, hiring and onboarding for early technical teams.
  • Turning business goals into concrete product and engineering plans.
  • Helping founders increase shipping pace without lowering quality.

Engagements

  • Delivery contracts with clear outcomes and, where appropriate, outcome-based pricing.
  • Discovery sprints for high-ambiguity projects before a go/no-go decision.
  • Advisory retainers from $5,000 (+ UK VAT where applicable).
  • Delivery contracts from $50,000 (+ UK VAT where applicable).

In labs

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