Rykaz Consulting

Senior product architecture for AI, SaaS, learning and immersive platforms

Turn complex product ideas into systems investors, teams and users can trust.

I help founders, innovation teams, and product leaders turn complex AI, SaaS, learning, or immersive ideas into buildable systems.

I work on architecture, product scope, technical risk, AI workflows, vendor decisions, and execution roadmaps.

PhD Computer Science · R&D and technical product experience · France

Advisory journey

Advisory Facets Cube

Six product hats for clarifying what to build, what to postpone, and what to avoid.

Rotate the scene to inspect the domains. Click a facet to shape your advisory brief, or open a numbered project marker to see the closest evidence.

Advisory focus

I translate ambition into architecture your team can actually build.

Many teams can build a prototype. Fewer can turn AI features, immersive demos, learning standards, and SaaS constraints into a product that is usable, maintainable, and aligned with the business goal.

  • Clarify what to build, postpone, or avoid.
  • Translate ambition into architecture and delivery steps.
  • Reduce technical risk before teams spend too much.

Insights

Public thinking behind the architecture work.

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Technical Product Leadership

How to Make Architecture Decisions Without Slowing Delivery

A practical decision-log method for resolving architecture choices quickly, preserving the reasoning, and reopening them only when the assumptions change.

AI Product Architecture

How to Know When an AI Feature Is Reliable Enough to Ship

A practitioner's method for deciding when an AI feature is ready for users: build an evaluation set, agree a failure budget, and ship behind a control point.

Learning Systems

How to Make Lesson Videos Searchable in a Learning Platform

A practitioner's method for turning a growing video library into a searchable knowledge layer that learners can query and the platform can measure.

Technical Product Leadership

Build vs Buy: A Decision Framework for Technical Leads

A practitioner's framing for deciding when to build, when to buy, and when reversing a vendor choice will cost more than the feature itself.

Technical Product Leadership

How to Triage Technical Debt Without Stalling the Roadmap

A practitioner's method for deciding which technical debt to pay down now, which to leave, and how to fund the work without a freeze.

AI Product Architecture

How to Turn an AI Idea Into Product Architecture

A practical framing method for converting an AI concept into workflows, boundaries, risks, and delivery decisions.

Technical Product Leadership

Technical Product Manager vs Product Architect vs Fractional CTO

A clear distinction for recruiters and founders evaluating technical product leadership needs.

Learning Systems

From 360 Video to Interactive Learning Systems

How immersive media becomes a learning product when authoring, runtime, analytics, and LMS standards work together.

SaaS & Product Strategy

Why Prototypes Fail to Become Products

A product architecture lens on why promising prototypes stall when they meet users, operations, integrations, and support.

Expertise

Four domains, one product architecture lens

Each domain is a decision surface: what to build, where risk sits, how users move through the system, and what the team needs to execute next.

Domain 01

AI Product Architecture

Productized AI features tied to real workflows.

  • AI agents
  • AI-assisted workflows
  • Content generation systems
  • Human-in-the-loop design
  • Productized AI features

Domain 02

Learning Systems

LMS, standards, analytics, and adaptive learning flows.

  • LMS integration
  • LTI 1.3
  • SCORM
  • xAPI
  • Learning analytics
  • Adaptive learning workflows

Domain 03

Immersive / XR Platforms

Authoring, runtime delivery, and web immersive systems.

  • 360 authoring
  • Virtual tours
  • XR training
  • Digital twins
  • Three.js delivery
  • Authoring-to-runtime bridge

Domain 04

SaaS & Product Strategy

From MVP scope to scalable product architecture.

  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • API design
  • Backend architecture
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Roadmap
  • MVP to production

Consulting formats

For existing products, prototypes, or technical plans.

Architecture Audit

  • Architecture review
  • Risk map
  • Product gaps
  • Scalability issues
  • Integration concerns
  • Practical roadmap

For teams before they build.

AI / Learning / XR Product Blueprint

  • Product concept clarification
  • User journeys
  • System architecture
  • Integration strategy
  • Data and AI workflow design
  • Delivery roadmap

For startups and innovation teams needing ongoing support.

Fractional CTO / Product Architect

  • Roadmap support
  • Architecture decisions
  • Technical reviews
  • Team guidance
  • Vendor evaluation
  • Product execution support

Selected product evidence

Prospr

AI-powered job search and career platform

Online product

Open

Prospr turns job-search uncertainty into structured AI-assisted positioning, search, and application workflows.

AI Product Architecture

Kaptia / IA Learning

360 immersive authoring platform

Online professional work

Open

Kaptia / IA Learning turns 360 videos into interactive learning experiences with hotspots, buttons, audio, quizzes, and web delivery.

Immersive / XR Platforms

NounouProche

Early childhood SaaS marketplace

Online product

Open

NounouProche maps marketplace trust, local childcare search, parent workflows, and family-service operations into a public SaaS product.

SaaS & Product Strategy

HomyHon

Real-estate purchase assistant

Online product experiment

Open

HomyHon guides French property buyers through pre-offer risks, renovation questions, financing context, and decision checkpoints.

AI Product Architecture

WasteLess

Receipt intelligence for food waste reduction

Prototype

WasteLess scans grocery receipts and turns purchases into personalized waste-reduction tips, savings estimates, and habit guidance.

AI Product Architecture

InvoiceHub

Digital invoice and receipt workflow

Prototype

InvoiceHub explores invoice and receipt digitization, banking and payment flows, transaction history, and spending insights.

SaaS & Product Strategy

CareFlow

Hospital communication workflow

Prototype

CareFlow explores hospital communication, staff workflow, and companion notification patterns for patient-family coordination.

Learning Systems

Knozy

Waiting-room engagement platform

Prototype

Knozy explores waiting-room engagement, patient education moments, and local healthcare communication surfaces.

Learning Systems

BrightSpark

Accessible foundational learning app

Prototype

BrightSpark explores accessible bilingual learning for children with visual or neuro-developmental needs through adaptive exercises and parent progress tracking.

Learning Systems

Ma Vie Facile

Daily support PWA for mothers in France

Prototype

Ma Vie Facile is a calm mobile PWA concept for unemployed mothers in France, with daily routines, health reminders, French practice, administration, goals, well-being, and parenting support.

Learning Systems

Squad 90-Day Challenge

Family health challenge onboarding

Prototype

Squad 90-Day Challenge explores family or group habit change through simple onboarding, fitness, health, and shared motivation.

SaaS & Product Strategy

E-Learning

LMS / immersive learning integrations

Prototype

E-Learning material supports LTI, SCORM, xAPI, analytics, and adaptive learning positioning.

Immersive / XR Platforms

Request a proposal

Turn your product situation into a clear advisory brief.

Describe the context, constraints and decisions that need clarity. You get a recommended engagement format, and I receive the substance needed to prepare a serious reply.

The form prepares a structured request. No prices are shown publicly: pricing belongs in the final proposal.

Recommended format

Light monthly retainer

Short alignment phase, scope still to clarify.

After submission, I directly receive a structured, high-priority brief. Pricing is added privately in the final proposal.

Topics to cover

Recruiter path

Hiring for technical product, R&D, AI product architecture, or immersive learning roles?

This portfolio is consulting-oriented, but it also gives recruiters a direct path to evaluate roles where roadmap discipline, architecture depth, AI workflows, learning systems, or immersive platforms need one accountable technical product owner.

Roles I fit

  • Technical Product Manager
  • R&D Project Manager
  • Product architect for AI, SaaS, learning or XR
  • Fractional CTO / technical advisor

Profile materials

CV and role-specific documents are available on request. I keep private job-search PDFs out of the public site until they are reviewed for the target role.

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Contact

Bring a serious product question, not a vague request.

Use the brief form to share the context, constraints and decisions that matter. I will respond around the architecture, roadmap and execution path.

Prepare a consulting briefReview relevant work The form creates the context needed for a serious first reply.