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Build products that your users love

Whether you’re building new products, scaling teams or putting AI to work, we bring the expertise, talent and training to turn your vision into products that succeed.

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We help withProduct strategyNew productsAI prototypesAutomationData platformsTeam upskilling

How we can help

Product people, not a traditional agency

We’re led by product people, and built to help organisations do their best product work in the AI era: the products they build, the teams that build them, and what those teams know.

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Build products your users love

Innovative products your users love, built in a way that grows the business.

  • Speed to market with new product innovation
  • Stable, high-performing product teams that deliver real business results
  • Finding product–market fit
  • Product strategy and vision
  • Engineering, product development and UX
The models and tools we build with

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Put AI to work

AI across your products and the way you work, from first prototype to production.

  • AI MVP prototyping that proves value fast and lowers the risk of bigger bets
  • Predictive analytics that turn your data into clear signals for decisions
  • Intelligent automation that removes friction and manual work
  • Data platforms and governance, so your AI runs on clean, trusted data
Department of Product · the newsletter

03

Grow your knowledge

Our newsletter is read by 55,000 product people. We bring the same knowledge to your teams.

  • The latest data and trends, as they happen
  • What the world’s best product teams are doing, and why
  • Technical knowledge in AI, APIs, web technologies and more
  • Upskilling for your leadership and delivery teams

Our clients

Who we’ve worked with

From universities to banks and fintechs, we’ve helped organisations build new products, put AI to work and raise the bar on how their product teams operate.

We’ve led product teams at

  • eBay
  • The Guardian
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Channel 4
  • Simply Business
  • FutureLearn
  • News UK
  • Springer Nature
  • eFinancialCareers

Our guiding principles

A product-first, practical approach

Whether you want to drive innovation, speed up delivery or work out what AI could open up for your business, this is how we work with you.

01

Product first

Lasting change starts with product thinking at its core. Not trends or quick fixes, but products users love, built in ways that grow your margins.

02

Practice over theory

Frameworks have their place, but we focus on concrete, practical changes your team can make and keep making.

03

AI-enabled

AI is changing how products are built and run. We follow it closely for 55,000 readers every week, and bring that knowledge to the teams we work with.

How an engagement works

Intensive sprints or a longer partnership

We work in intensive sprints on a specific problem, or over the longer term to build product-led thinking into your business. Most work runs through two phases, and we can add people where your team needs them.

  1. Discovery and diagnosis

    We learn your goals and find the opportunities for product growth, AI and innovation.

  2. Delivery

    We work alongside your team to put the recommendations into action.

  3. Extra hands

    If you need people as well as advice, we add the engineers, product managers or designers you’re missing.

Tell us what you’re working on.

Ask about working with Department of Product and we’ll be in touch.

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