About the firm
A practice with a track record you can check.
Lean Product Group transforms and operates bank and fintech businesses, then runs them safely on agentic AI. It exists because the problems we've solved keep coming up in other companies, and because the right operating model is cheaper than a wrong hire.
Why it exists
Most companies don't suffer from a lack of ideas. They struggle to execute them in a regulated business without either stalling in compliance or shipping something that gets a letter from the regulator. Our founder has been on the inside of that problem at banks, lenders, processors and fintechs for two decades, usually as the person brought in to build the thing that didn't exist yet.
The practice started as a way to answer the same three questions friends running companies kept asking: how do we launch payments without a three-year program, how do we get this product organization shipping, and what do we actually do about AI. Those are still the three questions. The third one now has a complete answer, the agentic operating model, and it is what the firm is built around.
The writing and the three courses on this site are the same material we use inside engagements, published so you can judge the thinking before you pay for it.
How we work
- Outcomes, not deliverables
- Every engagement is scoped around a number or a launch, not a document. If the outcome can't be named in one sentence, we won't take the work.
- We've done it, or we say so
- The first call ends with one of two answers: we've solved this before and here's how, or we haven't and here's who has. There is no third answer.
- Hands on the work
- We join the early sales calls, read the pull requests, and sit in the risk committee. Advice that stops at the slide deck isn't worth paying for.
- Build the servant leaders, then leave
- Engagements end with your team running the operating model and your leaders owning it, not with a dependency on us. Interim roles have a defined handoff from day one.
- Regulated means regulated
- Payments and lending are regulated businesses. Nothing we recommend trades compliance for speed. Both are possible; we have shipped multiple times a day under OCC, PCI and SOX.
- Security and standards are non-negotiable
- API-first, tests before code, feature toggles, blue/green, API versioning and the data standards are built in from the first commit. That is what makes agentic engineering safe at scale.
What we don't do
- Generic digital transformation. If the problem isn't payments, lending, product, operations or agentic operating models, we'll point you to someone better.
- Staff augmentation. We don't place engineers or product managers; we help you build and run the team you have, and the agents around it.
- AI strategy decks. We install working operating models with real process, or we don't touch AI at all.
- More than a few engagements at once. The work we take has to be done well.
Ventures
Lean Product Group is also the holding company for LPG, payments infrastructure for sponsor banks and software platforms (merchant services, payments and orchestration, with fees, risk, compliance and reporting built in). It's where the operating model described on this site gets exercised every day. lpgpay.com
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