I help teams turn complex product, platform, and AI ideas into clear, buildable systems.

Product strategy, requirements, AI workflows, platform thinking, and delivery alignment for teams operating across complex markets.

20+ years across digital products, platforms, healthcare, fintech, media, telecoms & APAC delivery

Product clarity

Product clarity for complex digital work.

Digital initiatives often slow down before development even starts. The idea is promising, the stakeholders are aligned in theory, and the team is capable — but the shape of the thing is still unclear.

Sarkies Digital brings structure to that stage. I work with founders, operators, product teams, and delivery teams to define what needs to be built, why it matters, how it should work, and what needs to happen next.

Services

What I do

Product Strategy

Shape early ideas into clear product direction, practical roadmaps, and decisions teams can act on.

  • New product concepts
  • Platform expansion
  • Market rollout planning

Requirements & Delivery Design

Turn business goals into flows, requirements, user journeys, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready documentation.

  • Functional requirements
  • Admin workflows
  • UAT preparation

AI & Workflow Consulting

Identify where AI, automation, and system design can create real leverage — without adding noise or gimmicks.

  • AI-assisted operations
  • Knowledge workflows
  • LLM-enabled service design

Platform & Systems Thinking

Make sense of integrations, roles, data, rules, permissions, and edge cases before they become delivery problems.

  • Platform architecture
  • Integration planning
  • Multi-market products
Approach

How I work

The goal is simple: fewer vague meetings, better decisions, cleaner delivery.

01

Diagnose

Understand the business goal, users, systems, constraints, stakeholders, and hidden friction.

02

Structure

Turn the complexity into flows, options, decisions, priorities, and a practical delivery shape.

03

Define

Create the artefacts teams need to move: requirements, journeys, specs, decision notes, roadmaps, and test cases.

04

Align

Help stakeholders reach a shared answer and give delivery teams enough clarity to build with confidence.

Engagements

Ways to work together

Advisory Sprint

For teams that need clarity quickly.

Early product direction
Stuck initiatives
Leadership alignment
AI opportunity reviews

Product Requirements Package

For teams preparing for design, development, client approval, procurement, or delivery handover.

Product scope
User journeys
Functional requirements
Acceptance criteria

Fractional Product Architecture

Ongoing senior product thinking across strategy, requirements, platform design, and stakeholder alignment.

Platform thinking
Delivery planning
Stakeholder alignment
AI and systems design
Experience

Experience across product, platforms, and APAC delivery.

Over more than 20 years I’ve worked across digital product development, consulting, media, telecoms, fintech, healthcare, and AI-enabled systems. My work usually sits between business strategy, product design, technical architecture, operations, and delivery.

Digital strategy
Healthcare platforms
Product requirements
APAC rollouts
Internal tools
AI automation
Platform workflows
Stakeholder alignment
Product operations
Point of view

Good products are usually won before development starts.

Most delivery problems begin earlier than people admit: unclear scope, fuzzy ownership, weak requirements, too many assumptions, and stakeholders using the same words to mean different things. Sarkies Digital exists to close that gap.

Contact

Need clarity on a product, platform, or AI initiative?

Send a short note with what you’re working on, what’s stuck, and what you need to decide.

michael@sarkies.digital