Book now for Sep '26

Custom AI, apps and websites for your business

I'll take it from idea to impact, drawing on 15+ years' experience across product, design and build.

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A New Era

AI changed the landscape

A whole team's work can now be done by one mind that sees the full picture.

The old way

An agency or internal team
Who builds it
Junior execution
Handoffs
Information lost in translation
You pay for
A bulky team, plus their markups
Your access
Middlemen in the way
Commitment
Contractual lock-ins

Working with me

Colin Cooper
Who builds it
Senior with 15+ years of experience
Handoffs
One mind, nothing lost
You pay for
The work, not the overhead
Your access
Direct, fast feedback loops
Commitment
Flexible: scale up or down
FasterSkip endless alignments
LeanerNo bloated fees
Sharper One coherent vision
Specialisms

What I'll build for you

A few of the things I'm most often brought in to build. Your needs may not fit neatly into one box, and that's just fine.

Digital Products

The apps and platforms your customers use. I take your idea, build the real thing, get it live, and keep making it better.

MVPs in weeks, not quarters
Web apps, B2B or B2C
Product strategy & design
Built to scale from day one
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  • Linear
  • Claude
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • GPT
  • YouTube
  • Gemini
  • Cursor
  • GitHub
  • Figma
  • Grok
  • X
  • Paper
  • Notion
  • Gmail
  • Drive
  • Calendar
  • Office 365
  • Analytics
  • Instagram
  • Ads
  • VSCode
  • Linear
  • Claude
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • GPT
  • YouTube
  • Gemini
  • Cursor
  • GitHub
  • Figma
  • Grok
  • X
  • Paper
  • Notion
  • Gmail
  • Drive
  • Calendar
  • Office 365
  • Analytics
  • Instagram
  • Ads
  • VSCode
  • Figma
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • Notion
  • Gemini
  • Linear
  • Grok
  • Claude
  • Office 365
  • Cursor
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • GPT
  • Jira
  • Analytics
  • Gmail
  • VSCode
  • X
  • Drive
  • Paper
  • Calendar
  • Ads
  • Figma
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • Notion
  • Gemini
  • Linear
  • Grok
  • Claude
  • Office 365
  • Cursor
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • GPT
  • Jira
  • Analytics
  • Gmail
  • VSCode
  • X
  • Drive
  • Paper
  • Calendar
  • Ads
  • Grok
  • Jira
  • Figma
  • Claude
  • Ads
  • X
  • Cursor
  • Linear
  • Analytics
  • Paper
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • GPT
  • VSCode
  • Slack
  • Gemini
  • Notion
  • YouTube
  • Calendar
  • Office 365
  • Gmail
  • Drive
  • Grok
  • Jira
  • Figma
  • Claude
  • Ads
  • X
  • Cursor
  • Linear
  • Analytics
  • Paper
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • GPT
  • VSCode
  • Slack
  • Gemini
  • Notion
  • YouTube
  • Calendar
  • Office 365
  • Gmail
  • Drive
  • Notion
  • GPT
  • Drive
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • Calendar
  • GitHub
  • Ads
  • Claude
  • VSCode
  • Jira
  • Instagram
  • Figma
  • Gemini
  • Linear
  • Analytics
  • Cursor
  • Paper
  • Grok
  • X
  • Gmail
  • Office 365
  • Notion
  • GPT
  • Drive
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • Calendar
  • GitHub
  • Ads
  • Claude
  • VSCode
  • Jira
  • Instagram
  • Figma
  • Gemini
  • Linear
  • Analytics
  • Cursor
  • Paper
  • Grok
  • X
  • Gmail
  • Office 365
  • Gmail
  • Cursor
  • Grok
  • Instagram
  • Analytics
  • Paper
  • Notion
  • Jira
  • Office 365
  • Drive
  • Gemini
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • GitHub
  • Claude
  • Ads
  • Linear
  • VSCode
  • X
  • Calendar
  • GPT
  • Figma
  • Gmail
  • Cursor
  • Grok
  • Instagram
  • Analytics
  • Paper
  • Notion
  • Jira
  • Office 365
  • Drive
  • Gemini
  • YouTube
  • Slack
  • GitHub
  • Claude
  • Ads
  • Linear
  • VSCode
  • X
  • Calendar
  • GPT
  • Figma

Custom AI Tooling

Custom agents that connect directly to your existing software, turning your own data into automated workflows that handle the busywork.

AI integrated into your existing stack
Agents that automate busywork
Tailor-made AI solutions
Chat with your internal data
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Marketing Sites

The site that wins you customers. Fast, clear, strategically designed pages that turn visitors into enquiries and sales.

Landing pages built to convert
Full marketing websites
SEO & speed built in
Wired into your CRM & tools
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Case study

I helped a project management team cut reporting time by 75%

Context
Communications
Task Tracking
Data & Docs
AI Generation
Weekly Status Report
Review & Send
-75% adminImproved accuracyConsistent format
About the case

Writing weekly client updates was consuming hours of project manager time that should have been spent managing projects. I built a tool that does the aggregation, the synthesis and the drafting automatically, leaving the team to approve and send.

The impact
-75%
Time on client reporting
6
Data sources unified
100%
Report format consistency
Same-day
Draft to send turnaround

Our PMs were spending half a day every Friday writing up client reports. Now the tool pulls everything together, writes the first draft and they just review and hit send. The reports are more consistent than they have ever been and the team actually has their Fridays back.

Operations Director·UK Project Management Firm
Full Story
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How we can work together

Fixed scope

Project

A defined scope and a fixed price agreed up front. You know exactly what you're getting, and when.

Best for a specific build with clear edges and a known outcome.
Ongoing

RetainerPopular

A set share of my week, held for you every week, so we keep momentum without scopes getting in the way.

Best for ongoing strategy, product, design or build work, with a known cadence.
Fractional

Advisory

Senior product direction without the headcount. Honest and informed second opinions, a few hours a month.

Best for founders and teams who want a senior perspective without a full-time hire.
Book a call

Let's get building.

  • A 30-minute chat, no pitch deck.
  • Directly with Colin Cooper, no middlemen.
  • Honest advice on scope, cost and timing, fit or not.
“Colin has all the skills you would want in a product leader, smart, creative, pragmatic, with a solid understanding of technology and a flair for design.”
Gareth Cummings · CEO, eDesk
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FAQ

Your questions, answered

I'm a product strategist, designer, and engineer with over 15 years of experience across product, design, and build.

Before operating solo, I was a business analyst at Eli Lilly, co-founded the SaaS platform Estimo, served as Head of Product at eDesk, and was the Chief Product Officer for Okadoc, a major healthcare booking platform.

Today, I operate on a consultancy basis: helping startups and established brands strategise, design, and build digital products significantly faster.

You can read my full background on About Me.

Colin Cooper in 2026

Historically, executing all three at a high level required a bloated agency team. However, AI has completely shifted the landscape.

By acting as a solo operator, I eliminate the classic "lost in translation" handoff errors that happen between project managers, designers, and engineers.

You get one coherent vision executed by a single mind with two decades of senior product experience.

It means what used to take a multi-person team months to build, I can often deliver alone in days or weeks.

I leverage advanced AI workflows to accelerate monotonous heavy lifting, allowing me to focus on higher value elements.

You aren't funding busywork. You are choosing rapid, high-seniority strategy and execution.

Most work falls into three buckets: digital products— the apps and platforms your customers actually use, taken from idea to live and improved from there; custom AI tooling— agents wired into your existing software that turn your own data into workflows and handle the busywork; and marketing sites— fast, clear pages that turn visitors into enquiries and sales.

That said, your needs may not fit neatly into one box, and that's fine. Sometimes the right answer isn't a build at all — it's a second opinion, some senior product direction, or slotting in alongside your existing team to steer a bigger project. If it sits somewhere across product, design and build, it's worth a conversation.

I specialise in building custom AI agents that securely connect to your existing software stack and turn your internal data into automated workflows.

Whether you need an intelligent interface to "chat with your internal data", custom internal tooling to handle repetitive busywork, or consumer-facing AI features integrated directly into your web apps, I build it securely and tailor it to your business rules.

We absolutely talk when it matters. Beyond that, I work async-first to protect focus blocks and build faster.

Instead of dragging you into status meetings, I provide direct, fast feedback loops and share working software early and often.

You deal directly with me at all times - no account managers or middlemen standing in the way. I'm extremely responsive and will always answer your questions.

I offer three flexible paths based on your needs:

  • An ongoing Monthly Retainer: Locks in a set share of my week for continuous product momentum.
  • Fixed-Scope Projects: Where we agree on a defined deliverable and an upfront price.
  • Fractional Advisory: Gives founders a senior product perspective and honest second opinions for just a few hours a month.

I am currently booking new client engagements for September 2026.

Because I only work with a handful of clients concurrently, I recommend booking a call early to secure a slot.

Once we kick off, you will see real, iterating software quickly rather than waiting months for a big reveal.

Honestly? For a quick internal tool or a throwaway prototype — you probably can. And maybe you should.

AI makes producing code almost effortless. What it doesn't make effortless is knowing what to build, or how — and left to its own devices it will happily generate thousands of confident lines of the wrong thing. The hard parts are still the human ones: scoping the real problem, designing something people actually want to use, and making the architectural calls you won't have to unpick in six months.

That's what you're paying for. I use some of the same tools you do — just with years of product judgement deciding what to keep, what to throw away, and what should never have been built in the first place.

Pricing is scope-dependent, and we'll map the exact shape together on our first call. As a rough guide: fixed-scope projects typically start from €10,000, monthly retainers from €6,000, and fractional advisory from €1,500 a month.

Whatever the model, the structural advantage is the same: your budget skips the institutional waste. A traditional setup makes you pay for agency account managers, overheads and markups, or absorb the hidden salary, benefits and onboarding time of a full-time hire.

Cut those layers and all of your budget goes straight into senior product strategy, polished design and production-ready code.

Not at all. My models are designed to be highly flexible so you can scale up or down as your business dictates. There are no rigid contractual lock-ins, and if you are on a retainer engagement, you can cancel at any time.

To be honest, this setup suits me just as much as it suits you. Operating this way gives me the freedom to constantly prioritise the things that deliver genuine, high-impact value to your business right now, rather than being forced to blindly execute an outdated scope of work agreed months ago.

If your market shifts or we realise a feature isn't resonating, we pivot the build immediately. No bureaucratic change requests, no friction—just pure focus on what moves the needle.

Yes, completely.

The moment invoices are settled, 100% of the repository, design assets, software architecture, and intellectual property belong entirely to you.