About
Pierre Derval.
Head of AI at Vertuoza.
I am a technology and product executive with 20+ years building enterprise software platforms and leading the engineering teams behind them. I connect technical architecture, delivery and product strategy to turn complex technology into products people use.
Today I am Head of AI and Business Transformation at Vertuoza, where I created the Omni-loop framework for AI-assisted engineering and, with the Platform team, brought AI Advisor and MCP capabilities into production. Before that I spent six years as Chief Product & Technology Officer at CluedIn, an enterprise data management and AI platform serving regulated enterprises, with product and 30 engineers reporting to me, after platform work at Adform and Sitecore.
I also help CEOs and CTOs of software companies with the gap I keep meeting: genuine AI ambition, real capability, and stalled delivery. Not because the technology is wrong, but because decisions, architecture and execution are not aligned.
Current role · 2026 – present
Vertuoza
I am Head of AI and Business Transformation at Vertuoza, a B2B construction-management SaaS platform based in Belgium, reporting to the CEO. I lead AI initiatives that span engineering, platform architecture and product.
Together with the Platform team, I brought AI Advisor and Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities into production.
Created by me
Omni-loop
I created Omni-loop, a loop engineering framework for AI-assisted software development and iterative product delivery. It is a delivery framework for coding agents, where every change still goes through human review.
I built it as part of my work as Head of AI at Vertuoza, and it is publicly documented at omni-loop.xyz.
Selected outcomes as CPTO of CluedIn
Career
Vertuoza
Head of AI and Business Transformation
B2B construction-management SaaS. Leads AI across engineering, platform architecture and product. Created Omni-loop; brought AI Advisor and MCP capabilities into production with the Platform team.
CluedIn
Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO)
Enterprise data management and AI platform for regulated enterprises, ACV 300k+, 40-person organisation. Everyone in product and technology reported to me, including 30 engineers. Owned product strategy with the CEO, led a multi-tenant SaaS transformation in 4 months and built agentic AI workflows.
Adform
Principal Architect
Cross-product architecture for an enterprise advertising platform, involving about 80 engineers: unified UX and front-end architecture, GraphQL federation. The broader FLOW initiative later received a Red Dot award.
Sitecore
Lead Developer
Innovation team. Helped build SPEAK, the framework used to accelerate vertical applications across Sitecore.
Amilia
VP Product Development
Led product development and the engineering team of a SaaS application, from architectural direction to hiring and delivery.
Earlier roles
Engineering and leadership roles
Aubay (AG Insurance) · Genivar · Experteam (BNP Paribas Fortis) · SME IT consulting
Open-source research
Ikary
Ikary Manifest is an open-source research project exploring a different approach to AI-built software: instead of generating code, generate a structured YAML manifest that describes what an application should do, and let a deterministic runtime compile it into a working system.
It includes a declarative manifest language for business applications, a compilation engine, contract validation and a multi-runtime renderer. It is early work, not a product.
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