AI Product Builder & Leader

Bradley Hartwick

CD, BEng, rmc, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, CSPO®

I turn ambiguous, high-consequence problems into valuable products, delivery systems, and empowered teams that execute by owning the arc from discovery and problem framing through strategy, design, build, delivery, adoption, and operating cadence.

How I build intelligent products, inspired teams, and accountable outcomes

Produces: AI products · value delivery systems · teams that execute and scale

StartAmbiguous problem
DiscoverThe evidence
FrameThe problem
PrioritizeThe gambit
ArchitectThe system
DesignThe interface
DeliverBuild · evaluate · deploy
AdoptInto use
OperateThe cadence
EndA system that runs

AI-native · Responsibly governed · Outcome-oriented

Return loop: operating evidence returns to discovery through continuous development of people, improvement of process, and delivery of technology.

Built on: 16+ years · Canadian Army · KPMG management consulting · early-stage venture product and technology leadership

Portfolio Overview

Selected Products

Selected 0→1 products show how I turn complex, high-consequence problems into useful AI-native experiences—from opportunity framing and product judgment through build, adoption, and operation.

AI-Native Systems

I design the systems behind the product: value streams, governed agent workflows, and an AI-native operating model built to move teams from insight to customer value with speed and discipline.

Leadership in Practice

I turn emerging practice into shared capability—I founded Smith’s AI Product Community of Practice, then designed and led a hands-on workshop with an AI-native prototype at the 2026 Digital Future Symposium.

Career Foundation

My approach is shaped by 16+ years across military leadership, management consulting, and early-stage product and technology. Three careers that taught me to align people, systems, and decisions when the work is complex and consequential.

Where I lead and build

A sleeves-up visionary, focused on four systems.

Product judgment and hands-on delivery across the product, the organization, and the team that carries both.

01

Responsibly intelligent products

I frame the product judgment, design the experience, architect the system, and build the working surface—with human authority and evidence kept visible.
02

Digital transformation

I connect technology change to adoption, operating reality, and measurable value instead of treating launch as the finish line.
03

Operating models, organization design & value streams

I redesign the human and delivery systems around the product so strategy, structure, process, and decision rights reinforce one another.
04

Building and leading teams

I set clear intent and constraints, create the conditions for candor and safety, and coach teams toward aligned autonomy.

By the numbers

Sixteen years,
three careers.

Military Leadership · Management Consulting · Product

12
years building and leading teams: 4
products shipped: 7
industries served: 50+
projects delivered

AI-native practice

AI is part of how I design and build, every day.

I stay in the tools—shipping, learning from evidence, and sharpening my craft as an AI product builder.

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Figma
TypeScript
React
GCP
Vertex AI
Supabase
Cloudflare
GitHub
MCP
Ollama

Explore how I build

Experience

Where I’ve worked

My professional experience spans Product, Operations, Management Consulting, Program/Project/Change Management, Talent, Organizational Behaviour and Leadership Coaching.

Canadian Armed Forces

Army Engineer Officer & Combat Diver

Led people, operations, and transformation in high-consequence environments where clarity and responsible action mattered.
KPMG

Senior Management Consultant

Lead complex transformation work across operating models, organization design, job architecture, process improvement, and technology adoption.
System-3

Director, Product Management and Customer Success

Bridged assessment expertise, client context, discovery, UX, and guarded AI workflows in an early-stage product environment.
FelixClark

Director, Product & Engineering · Fractional

Lead product, engineering, and design across concurrent 0→1 AI-native product initiatives and the operating system around them.