Neon Lighthouse · Studio

Turning complex human problems into products people actually use.

AI product strategy, customer research, behavioural design, and community building for organisations navigating uncertainty.

Helping founders, fintechs, and innovation teams understand customer behaviour, validate opportunities, and design products, services, and communities people genuinely engage with.

Selected work & affiliations

TSB

Mobile app rating improved from 1.8★ to 4.6★

Vanquis

Customer experience strategy across 1.7M customers

Bachata Week

Built a global community across 56 countries

Warwick Business School

Executive MBA researching behavioural design and AI

How I help

Four practices, one point of view.

Every engagement starts with the same question: what will people actually do — and why?

015 components

Customer Validation

Understand what customers will actually do before investing in product development.

  • Customer interviews
  • Behavioural analysis
  • Concept testing
  • JTBD research
  • Messaging validation
025 components

AI Product Strategy

Design AI-enabled experiences that solve real customer problems.

  • AI product discovery
  • Conversational experiences
  • User journeys
  • Behavioural activation
  • Opportunity mapping
035 components

Customer Experience & Service Design

Improve onboarding, engagement, retention, and customer outcomes.

  • Journey mapping
  • Service design
  • Experience strategy
  • Customer research
  • Prioritisation
045 components

Community & Ecosystem Design

Build communities people join, contribute to, and remain part of.

  • Membership strategy
  • Community design
  • Platform thinking
  • Network effects
  • Engagement systems

Case studies

Outcomes, not artefacts.

Selected engagements across retail banking, consumer finance, community, and AI product.

Retail Banking1.8★ → 4.6★

TSB Mobile Banking

Built customer-centred design capability and helped redesign digital journeys contributing to an app rating improvement from 1.8★ to 4.6★.

Consumer Finance1.7M customers

Vanquis Inclusive Design Framework

Created a scalable customer testing and inclusive design framework supporting better customer outcomes across a 1.7 million customer organisation.

Community56 countries

Bachata Week

Built and scaled a curated global community reaching participants from 56 countries through behavioural design, curation, and continuous experimentation.

AI ProductAI · Fintech

Breathing Room

AI-powered financial companion helping people move from financial overwhelm to meaningful action.

How we work

A disciplined path from question to direction.

  1. 01

    Understand the problem

    Frame the real question, not the surface symptom.

  2. 02

    Understand the people

    Interview, observe, and map the human context.

  3. 03

    Identify behavioural barriers

    Pinpoint what blocks action, not just opinion.

  4. 04

    Test assumptions

    Run focused experiments with real users.

  5. 05

    Design the next experiment

    Translate signal into the smallest useful test.

  6. 06

    Create a clearer path forward

    A prioritised, defensible product direction.

Contact

Let's explore the problem before building the solution.

If you're trying to understand customer behaviour, validate an opportunity, design an AI product, or build a stronger community, let's talk.