Lawal Alao, Senior Product Manager
AI-native builder · Bordeaux, France
I build products. Sometimes with code, always with care.
Currently
Builder & Advisor
Shipping AI products · Advising fintech startups in West Africa
Digital Transformation Officer, EPITECH Paris
Team of 13 · €700K budget
Recent Builds
Enutri
Visit ↗AI-powered nutrition app for francophone West African families. 0–24 months meal plans, recipes, education.
100 users · iOS & Android
EqualHome
Visit ↗Couples app that makes domestic labor visible and fair. Web live, mobile apps in store review.
20 users · $45 MRR
PM Agent
Visit ↗AI product coach powered by Claude API, RAG architecture and 14 Reforge frameworks.
Shipped
2023–
Zepargn
Founder, now Advisor
0 → 8,500 users · 170M+ FCFA managed
2023–
EPITECH Paris
Digital Transformation Officer
Team of 13 · €700K budget
2024–2026
Kkiapay
Head of Product
50M+ transactions/month · 4 countries
2021–2023
ChapChap
Co-founder
B2B SaaS logistics with invoice financing · 0 → 3,000 clients
2019–2020
Gozem
Tech Lead
Mobility super app · 100K+ users
Books
Un guide pratique pour passer de zéro à développeur employable.
Les fondamentaux pour concevoir des systèmes logiciels solides et maintenables.
Certifications
Writing
Stop Delegating Your Thinking to AI
How I ship faster with AI without accumulating technical or product debt. The order of operations on a new project, the trap of AI-explained stack traces, what AI is safe to delegate, and what the human stays in the loop for. Notes from shipping six AI products in 2025 with Claude Code as a co-pilot.
Structuring Product Without Slowing It Down: Two Years as Kkiapay's First PM
Joining a founder-led fintech at 50M+ transactions per month as its first Product Manager. The discovery rituals I added, the delivery cadence I left alone, the CODIR roadmap I built across four UEMOA countries, and the six AI products I shipped in production in 2025 while doing it.
Building for the Day You Leave: How I Engineered My Exit From Zepargn
Three years of building, eighteen months of hiring and training, twelve months of progressive disengagement. Now I'm an advisor and the product runs without me. The playbook on the three layers that make a founder-handoff work: the system, the people, the principles.
Talk to me
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