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AI Builder · Charity fundraising · Pre-launch
Turning a two-person vision into a shipped MVP
Embedded as the third member of a founding team to take a charity fundraising innovation from discovery through planning to a shipped MVP — covering product design and development end-to-end.
Concept → MVP
Journey
Discovery, design, build
Scope covered
Embedded as co-founder #3
Team dynamic
Challenge
Verified Space had two founders with a shared vision for an innovative charity fundraising platform but no product team. They needed someone who could understand the problem space deeply, shape the product, and build it — not a hired hand waiting for a spec that didn't exist yet.
Approach
- 01Ran structured discovery sessions with both founders to map the problem space, identify target users and define what the MVP needed to prove.
- 02Translated discovery into a feature scope, information architecture and user flows that the founders could sign off on before a line of code was written.
- 03Designed and built the MVP iteratively, sharing progress weekly so the product stayed aligned with the founders' evolving understanding of their market.
- 04Acted as the embedded product partner throughout — challenging assumptions, proposing alternatives and making trade-off decisions together as a team of three.
Outcome
Verified Space went from a concept to a working MVP that both founders could show to early supporters and potential partners — built collaboratively, not thrown over a wall.