From 65 days to 6.
Median time to market, cut by 10×.
- AI Advisor and MCP shipped inside the product
- Support and bug fixing automated with AI
Technology & Product Executive · Belgium
From AI ambition to shipped products.
I’m Pierre Derval. I lead engineering, platform and AI, with a product eye, to turn complex technology into products people use.
Head of AI and Business Transformation at Vertuoza. Creator of Omni-loop.
Built across enterprise software
- CluedIn
What I’m building now · 2026
Engineering with working proof.
10× more pull requests.
Same human review on every one.
- 40% of merged work written by agents
- Product managers and non-technical teammates ship to the product
Engineering leadership
I run the teams that build it.
Lead developer, principal architect, then the executive both product and engineering reported to.
- Teams led
- 30 engineers at CluedIn, where everyone in product and technology reported to me. Earlier, the engineering team at Amilia, from hiring to delivery.
- Architecture owned
- A multi-tenant SaaS transformation delivered in 4 months at CluedIn. Cross-product architecture and GraphQL federation at Adform, across about 80 engineers. The SPEAK application framework at Sitecore.
- In production
- Agentic AI workflows for regulated enterprises at CluedIn. AI Advisor and MCP inside the Vertuoza product, with the Platform team.
- Still building
- Omni-loop, a delivery framework for coding agents, and Ikary Manifest, an open-source manifest runtime.
Selected outcomes as CPTO of CluedIn
A career spent closing the gap.
Six years running product and engineering for an enterprise data and AI platform.
80% Customer adoption of new AI features within six months. CluedIn
4 months To deliver a multi-tenant SaaS platform transformation. CluedIn
Weeks → hours Time to launch AI agents with reusable deployment patterns. CluedIn
“Pierre combines a strong helicopter view with the ability to dive deep into product engineering when needed.”
“Pierre shows a remarkable combination of deep technical skill and pragmatic business and product acumen.”
“Pierre consistently brought clarity, strategic insight, and a deep understanding of enterprise data challenges. He combines strong product vision with a pragmatic, execution-focused approach.”
For CEOs and CTOs
Where I can help.
When ambition is clear but the path is not, I help connect the business decision to the team and platform that have to deliver it.
01
Technology & AI direction
Decide where AI belongs, what is worth building and how it supports your business.
02Platform & delivery assessment
Find the architectural and operating constraints between your ambition and production.
03Fractional CTO & executive advisory
Technology leadership on a fractional, interim or advisory basis, close to the teams and systems that deliver.
Writing & practical tools
A point of view. Something you can use.
Omni Loop: Agents Ship, You Steer
Why I built a delivery framework for coding agents, how the loop runs from idea to retro, and the three rules that keep people in charge.
Before Building Another MCP, Make Your Codebase Agent-Ready
Eight dimensions that decide whether a coding agent becomes effective in your codebase, and why the limiting factor is almost never the model.
Five tools for better AI decisions.
Start a conversation
What needs to move forward?
Tell me what you are trying to change, where things stand and what is getting in the way.
Discuss your challenge