For the founder who became the project manager by accident

Your release date is based on hope. I prove it. Then fix it.

Your developer says August. Your lead says September. You tell the client October, because you've been here before. Everyone was guessing. Everyone called it planning.

I look at how your team actually ships and give you a number for each deadline: the real probability it lands on time. No more guessing. Even when the number is uncomfortable, at least you can walk into the next meeting with something real.

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Sound familiar?

Shipping shouldn't feel this hard

Work never seems to finish.

Things carry over week after week. Nobody's sure what's actually done and what's still in progress.

Everything is urgent.

Priorities shift weekly. The team is busy but nothing meaningful gets delivered.

No visibility for leadership.

You can't confidently tell stakeholders when something will be done — because you don't know either.

You're the process.

Whether you've outgrown your setup or never had one — you're the one holding it together. Every decision, every priority call, every "what should I work on next?" runs through you.

And this has been going on for months. The team isn't getting bigger. Every missed week is a week you can't get back. You know the fix isn't another team meeting about how to fix the team meetings.

What clarity looks like

This is an actual delivery risk scan

Not a vague status update. A probability-based forecast built from your team's real delivery data. For each commitment: the likelihood of hitting the deadline, what's driving the risk, and what to do about it.

Every forecast is based on 10,000 simulated outcomes using your team's actual completion rates — not averages, not gut feel. The output tells you things like "this has a 28% chance of landing on time, and here's why."

Download example report (PDF) How the scan works →
Delivery risk scan — executive summary showing portfolio overview with on-time probabilities Initiative breakdown showing forecast distribution curve and key findings

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How I help

Two ways to work together

Start small with a hands-on kickoff, or go deeper with an embedded engagement. No long-term lock-in required. Even a small team missing deadlines by a month costs more in wasted salary than the kickoff below.

For teams that spend more time in meetings than doing the work

Delivery Kickoff

2 days · on-site or remote

Your team has the people. What's missing is a way of working that doesn't rely on you being in every conversation. I spend two days with the team — mapping how work actually moves, fixing the meetings that aren't working, and setting up a structure that fits. You walk out with something the team can follow on their own.

€5,000
Fixed price · VAT excluded

Less than what one wasted meeting per week costs your team in a quarter.

  • Your board reflects how work actually moves — not a default template nobody trusts
  • A short list of priorities the whole team saw get decided
  • A standup that takes 15 minutes, not an hour
  • A specific diagnosis: why things feel slow, backed by data
  • Someone on the team owns this — not you
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For teams that have had this conversation before

Delivery Reset

8 weeks · embedded

You've reorganized the board before. You've tried new standups. It worked for a few weeks, then everything drifted back. The Reset is eight weeks embedded — long enough to set things up, coach the team through real problems, and prove it works with data before I leave.

€20,000
Fixed price · VAT excluded · can be split across two invoices

Less than two months of a problem that's been costing you all year.

  • Everything from the Kickoff — but battle-tested over six weeks, not just set up
  • A delivery risk scan with probability-based forecasts you can take to stakeholders
  • A team that handles problems without escalating to you
  • Someone else runs the standup. You just listen
  • A documented way of working — short, practical, theirs
  • You start thinking about product again instead of firefighting delivery
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When the Kickoff is right for you

Your team has people and momentum but no structure. Or you had a process that worked once and doesn't anymore. You need a reset, not a consultant for months. Two days, concrete changes, you run with it.

When the Reset is right for you

You've tried to fix this before. It worked for a bit. Then you were back in the same meeting wondering the same thing. You need someone embedded long enough to make the changes stick — and to prove it worked.

When to look elsewhere

Your problem is what to build, not how. If you're building the wrong thing, delivering it faster won't help. You need product strategy, not delivery consulting. Also: if you need someone to attend steering committees and produce slides, I'm not your person.

"My dev lead could probably build something like this with AI in a week."

The report, maybe. The thinking behind it, no. I spend the first days understanding how your workflow really works and cleaning the data before I run a single number. Without that step, you get a confident answer based on the wrong inputs — that's worse than no answer. And you don't audit your own books. An outside perspective with no stake in any specific date just sees things differently.

How it works

No lengthy proposals. No discovery phase you pay for twice.

A straightforward process that respects your time.

01
We talk
A short, free conversation to understand your situation. If I can help, I'll tell you exactly how. If I can't, I'll say that too.
02
We start
No 40-page proposal. You get a clear scope, a fixed price, and we book the dates. Most kickoffs happen within two weeks.
03
Your team ships
The goal isn't to create a dependency on me. It's to leave your team with a way of working they can sustain on their own.
Why me

I've been in the chair you're hiring for

Not here to introduce a methodology or sit in your meetings for six months. I fix what's broken and leave.

Practitioner, not theorist

I've led product delivery in startups and scale-ups. I know the difference between what works in a textbook and what works when your team is under pressure and your roadmap keeps changing.

Direct, not diplomatic

I'll tell your team what's broken on day one. Not in a slide deck three weeks later. If a meeting is wasting everyone's time, we'll fix it in real time — not write a report about it afterwards.

Built to leave

My engagements are designed to end. I coach your people, transfer the process, and step back. If you still need me after six months, I haven't done my job.

Belgium-based

I've worked with teams across Belgium and the Benelux. I know the scale, the constraints, and the culture. Available on-site or remote.

Results

What actually happened

Factry
Factory operating system · ~12 people · Ghent

Previous client implementation took 18 months and nearly broke the team. I went to the factory floor, talked to machine operators, prototyped with real users, and turned a one-hour daily meeting into 15 minutes. The next comparable implementation took 6 months. Three times faster.

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Spotto
Real estate marketplace for CIB Vlaanderen · First product hire

The team was shipping, but there was no structured way to check whether any of it matched what users needed. I added what was missing: regular contact with real users and a process where decisions were based on evidence, not opinions. The team stopped building the wrong things. That focus — shipping fewer, better features — contributed to the platform growing from 10,000 to over 100,000 monthly visitors over two years.

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What they said

I can't write a single line of code and I don't understand a word the development team says. But thanks to Bart, everyone knows what's being built, why, and when it's ready.

Jantien Vanderbeke, Marketing lead, Spotto

He took the time to understand our complex environment and our constraints to propose the best solution for us.

Jennifer Imbert Podgorski, Industrial Operations Manager, Lesaffre

He sees the unique strengths of his colleagues, helps them grow, and brings them together around shared goals in a way that feels natural.

Els Cornelis, Customer success lead, Spotto
Who I am

Bart Pinnock

I started as a developer. I know what it feels like to sit in a meeting with no clarity on why you're building what you're building. That frustration pushed me into product and delivery work — not to manage people, but to build the kind of environment where a team can actually focus.

I did this for almost 10 years at companies like Factry and Spotto, on the boundary between deciding what to build and actually shipping it. That's where most things fall apart.

Based in Ghent. When I'm not doing this, I'm probably outside walking my Weimaraner, da Vinci.

LinkedIn bart.pinnock@nimflex.be

Let's talk

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AI brief

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