AI-powered leadership coaching platform

JOYO delivers personalised leadership development through AI-powered coaching, trusted by institutions like MIT. As Fractional CTO for Aliveness Ventures, I turned a slide-deck vision into a market-ready product in six months.

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Challenge

Starting with zero technical resources, JOYO needed to validate an AI-powered coaching platform in a competitive market—fast.

graph TB
  subgraph "Starting Point"
    A[Domain Experts] --> G[Mobile-First Platform]
    B[Leadership Science] --> H[AI Coaching]
    C[Go-to-Market] --> I[Enterprise Security]
    D[❌ No Tech Team]
    E[❌ 6-Month Deadline]
    F[❌ Lean Budget]

    style D fill:#ffcdd2
    style E fill:#ffcdd2
    style F fill:#ffcdd2
    style G fill:#c5e1a5
    style H fill:#c5e1a5
    style I fill:#c5e1a5
  end

Approach

I stepped in as Fractional CTO to architect, hire and ship simultaneously:

  1. Team – recruited senior engineers in 3 weeks.
  2. Architecture – serverless, SOC 2-ready from day one.
  3. AI – integrated Vertex AI for contextual micro-coaching.
  4. Process – lightweight Agile with weekly demos and automated CI/CD.
timeline
  title 6-Month Sprint
  M1 : Strategy & Hiring
  M2 : Backend + Mobile Foundations
  M3 : AI & Security
  M4 : Feature Complete
  M5 : Beta Launch
  M6 : Market Release 🚀

Outcome

  • ✅ 6 months from idea to public release.
  • ✅ $250k saved versus in-house CTO & team.
  • ✅ SOC 2 controls implemented day one; enterprise pilots secured.
  • ✅ >85% positive feedback from beta users on coaching relevance.

Stack

graph LR
  A[Flutter] --> B[iOS & Android]
  C[Go • Python • GCP] --> D[Flexible Infrastructure]
  E[PostgreSQL • Firestore] --> F[Persistent Data]
  G[Vertex AI] --> H[Personalised Coaching]
  I[OpenTofu] --> J[Infrastructure as Code]
  K[CI/CD] --> L[Automated Deploys]

    style A fill:#bbdefb
    style C fill:#fff9c4
    style E fill:#d7ccc8
    style G fill:#c5e1a5
    style I fill:#e1f5fe
    style K fill:#ffccbc

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