{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "name": "Jon Clay",
  "descriptor": "Product leadership",
  "canonical_profile": "https://jonclay.co.uk/profile",
  "summary": "I connect product strategy, commercial judgement and accountable delivery across data, AI and enterprise software.",
  "target_roles": [
    "CPO",
    "VP Product",
    "Product Director"
  ],
  "engagement_types": [
    "Advisory",
    "Interim",
    "Permanent"
  ],
  "sectors": [
    "Enterprise software",
    "SaaS",
    "Data products",
    "Artificial intelligence",
    "Automotive technology"
  ],
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "title": "Portfolio strategy",
      "copy": "Choose where to invest, evolve and retire."
    },
    {
      "title": "Product commerciality",
      "copy": "Align proposition, pricing, go-to-market and value."
    },
    {
      "title": "Data, AI and software products",
      "copy": "Build from customer needs and robust data foundations."
    },
    {
      "title": "Accountable operating models",
      "copy": "Organise global teams to decide and deliver."
    }
  ],
  "services": [
    {
      "title": "Advisory",
      "copy": "Focused support on portfolio strategy, product commerciality, data and AI opportunities, operating models and critical investment decisions."
    },
    {
      "title": "Interim",
      "copy": "Experienced leadership during transition or transformation—resetting priorities, strengthening accountability and turning strategy into execution."
    },
    {
      "title": "Permanent",
      "copy": "Sustained CPO, VP Product or Product Director leadership with ownership of strategy, commercial outcomes, organisational capability and delivery."
    }
  ],
  "case_studies": [
    {
      "slug": "leading-an-enterprise-product-portfolio",
      "eyebrow": "Enterprise portfolio leadership",
      "title": "Creating clarity across a complex product portfolio",
      "summary": "How product strategy, commercial accountability and an international operating model were connected across a 9-figure portfolio.",
      "themes": [
        "Portfolio strategy",
        "Product commerciality",
        "Operating models"
      ],
      "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/leading-an-enterprise-product-portfolio"
    },
    {
      "slug": "building-an-agentic-business-intelligence-product",
      "eyebrow": "Data and AI product",
      "title": "Turning a fragmented initiative into an international product",
      "summary": "How an agentic business-intelligence product was recovered, commercialised and launched across eight markets within 12 months.",
      "themes": [
        "AI products",
        "Data platforms",
        "International launch"
      ],
      "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/building-an-agentic-business-intelligence-product"
    },
    {
      "slug": "scaling-ai-enabled-product-practice",
      "eyebrow": "AI-enabled operating model",
      "title": "Moving AI from individual tools to shared product practice",
      "summary": "How a small product-team pilot became a broader enterprise approach to AI-enabled discovery, decisions and delivery.",
      "themes": [
        "AI adoption",
        "Product practice",
        "Organisational change"
      ],
      "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/scaling-ai-enabled-product-practice"
    },
    {
      "slug": "commercialising-data-products",
      "eyebrow": "Data product leadership",
      "title": "Connecting data product quality with commercial execution",
      "summary": "How shared product strategy and operating models supported 9-figure automotive data businesses and repeated annual price growth.",
      "themes": [
        "Data products",
        "Data-as-a-Service",
        "Commercial strategy"
      ],
      "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/commercialising-data-products"
    }
  ],
  "primary_research": {
    "title": "How to maximise data product lifetime value",
    "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/insights/maximising-data-product-lifetime-value",
    "evidence_base": "Twenty senior data product leaders, 426 evidence points, 33 concepts, 11 themes and two connected dimensions.",
    "boundary": "Foundational qualitative research; further quantitative and role-, industry- and operating-model-specific validation is recommended."
  },
  "contact": {
    "url": "https://jonclay.co.uk/contact",
    "enquiry_types": [
      "Product or portfolio challenge",
      "Advisory product leadership",
      "Interim product leadership",
      "Permanent product leadership",
      "Speaking or industry conversation"
    ]
  },
  "last_reviewed": "2026-11-01"
}