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Marine product teams · Barcelona · EN FR ES

Part-time CPO for the marine industry: digital product teams with human-in-the-loop AI.

Saturday at the charter base: between the boats coming back in the morning and the new crews boarding in the evening, there’s the deposit to release, the tank to fill, the check-in list, the dinghy outboard that won’t start and the client who booked the wrong boat. I set up and lead the product teams that build for that day.

Available from October 2026, on site or remote.

A sailing instructor briefs a team on a marina pontoon before boarding a cruising yacht.

What I set up

A product team that starts from the people it serves: the client on the pontoon, the team at the base, the skipper.

Human in the loop: the team uses AI every day, and a named person checks and decides on each use.

I set it up with you and hand it over, or I stay on as your part-time CPO.

Who it’s for

  • Charter and rental companiescheck-in, deposits, the handover at the base, the Saturday rush.
  • Marinasberth bookings, arrivals called on the VHF, the queue at the harbour office.
  • Shipyardsthe refit schedule, parts on order, the owner who wants news of the boat.
  • Navigation appsthe route, tomorrow’s weather, the anchorage for tonight.
  • Chandlery e-commercethe right part for the right boat, delivered before the weekend.

Three formats

Digital, product & AI diagnosis

2 days

With the leadership team and the product people, we look at where your product stands and how the team decides.

From €1,400

€700 a day, written report included.

You leave with

  • What the product brings its users, seen from the pontoon
  • How the team decides today
  • Where AI saves time, with a human in the loop
  • Priorities for the season 3
  • A written report

Set-up mission

4 to 8 weeks

We set up the product team together, around the product that matters most for next season.

From €5,600

€700 a day, about 8 days in all.

You leave with

  • Who you build for: the human benefit, in one sentence
  • A one-page vision
  • Indicators 3 to 5
  • The product team organised: roles, rituals, who decides
  • A first use of AI in production, checked by a person
  • The roadmap up to the season

Part-time CPO

1 or 2 days a week

I run product with your team, every week.

1 day a week From €2,800 / month

2 days a week From €5,600 / month

Monthly, no long commitment. €700 a day.

You leave with

  • Product direction held every week
  • A coached team that decides more and more on its own
  • Decisions written down and measured
  • A hire prepared, if the role should become permanent

The product gets built in winter

In boating, the product gets built in winter. The season starts again in April or May, and what isn’t ready in March waits a year.

AI changes how a product gets made within twelve months. Your team has to move fast, and everyone has to follow.

  1. OctoberSalón Náutico in Barcelona, 14 to 18 October, Port Vell. The window opens.
  2. October to MarchThe team gets organised, builds and tests.
  3. AprilThe season starts. What you built is in the hands of clients and crews.

The same five questions, applied to your product

  1. Human
  2. Vision
  3. Indicators
  4. Data
  5. Decisions, then back to Human, one turn higher
  1. 01 Human Who gains what, for real: the client on the pontoon, the team at the base, the skipper?
  2. 02 Vision One page the whole team can repeat, from the base to the developers.
  3. 03 Indicators 3 to 5 numbers the team follows, such as the time a check-in takes.
  4. 04 Data What you collect, who looks at it, and when.
  5. 05 Decisions AI proposes, a named person decides, and the decision is written down.

What I bring back from the boat

On board, I rotate three roles: pilot, navigator, crew. After each sail, ten minutes: what worked, what cost us time, one thing we change.

I run a product team the same way.

Gabriel Cardon at the helm in foul-weather gear, on a foggy crossing to Norway.

Why me

I want to do this work with marine companies. I’m available from October, in Barcelona or remotely, in English, French or Spanish.

4×
CTO. At Splendia, I rebuilt the hotel booking platform; Voyage Privé bought the company for it.
LLM
CTO of anto.info since 2021: a platform built on language models, 20,000+ events.
Capitán de Yate
and PPER. Skipper and instructor at the Neptuno sailing school, Barcelona, since 2022.
10,000+
nautical miles, including an Atlantic crossing in 2024 and Norway twice.
2
products I build for myself, as a skipper: Baleeze, a cruise itinerary app, and a weather router.

“We succeeded in creating objectives that everyone understands and defining actions to achieve them — via concrete support methods, and over longer periods, via refocusing techniques.”

Cédric Motte Director of Digital Products & Editorial Development, Centre France (press group) (translated from French)

Questions leaders ask

How much does it cost?

The 2-day diagnosis costs €1,400, report included. The set-up mission starts at €5,600. That’s about 8 days at €700, over 4 to 8 weeks. Part-time CPO starts at €2,800 a month for 1 day a week, €5,600 for 2 days.

When can you start?

From October 2026. That leaves the winter to build before the season.

On site or remote?

I’m based in Barcelona. Elsewhere, we work remotely and I come on site when it’s useful.

We don’t have a product team yet. Is that a problem?

No. We start from the people you have today, and we organise the roles, the rituals and who decides.

Is leadership coaching included?

Yes. Coaching the leadership team is part of how I work, in both formats.

What happens after the mission?

Your team carries on with its roles, its rituals and its roadmap. If you want, I stay on as part-time CPO, month by month.

The human at the helm

30 minutes. Tell me where you're stuck.

I'll tell you if I can help. No slides.