Pierre Sauvignon
Pierre with his youngest son on his shoulders
Pierre Sauvignon · Entrepreneur with a product bias.

I turn ideas into products people pay for.

Nearly two decades across Sydney and Perth: incubating 100+ startups, growing a cabin business from idea to profit and now shipping with AI.

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Career

the short version

I started my first business in France straight out of high school. In Sydney I was Head of Product at Pollenizer, building the product team that launched 100+ startups and sold one to Yahoo!7 for AU$40M. In Perth I grew Heyscape from an idea to a profitable business with 25 off-grid cabins. Now I build AI products on my own and lead AI projects on contract, most recently at Respondent.io, where I built an autonomous AI agent that runs their recruitment campaigns.

Profile

who you’d be hiring

What I do

ProductProduct management, 0 → 1 products, brand and design.
BuildAI-first engineering, macOS and web apps, AWS serverless.
LeadBuilding product teams, running a dozen startups at once.
GrowGrowth, startup coaching, operations.

Who I am

  • French, at home in Perth. Bilingual French and English, nearly two decades in Australia, between Sydney and Perth.
  • Hands-on. I design, build, ship and grow products.
  • From log room to boardroom. As comfortable debugging in the logs as reporting the numbers to a board.
  • Can’t not start things. My first business came straight out of high school.
  • Restored a 200-year-old house in the south of France, on a break between jobs.
  • Dad of two, and a kitesurfer on weekends, wind permitting.

Building now

Always Be Shipping

Four products I designed, built and run on my own. Each case study covers the architecture, the numbers and what I learned.

Made AI coding usage measurable across every tool.

A Mac menu bar app and web dashboard that track tokens, cost and output across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Mistral Vibe.

1.93B tokens tracked
Read the case study →lobsterone.ai ↗

Made production-grade setup a one-minute job.

A free Mac app that gives each new project its own AWS account, GitHub repo, keyless deploys and agent guardrails.

<1 min idea to deployable project
Read the case study →tigersoup.com ↗

Made flaky, metered AI video reliable enough to sell.

Turns a handful of photos into a cinematic short film in minutes.

3,121 films delivered
Read the case study →onreplay.ai ↗

OnSilent

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Made live voice AI hold up on a real phone line.

An AI receptionist for Australian tradespeople and real-estate agents: it answered missed calls, triaged every message and called people back.

9,457 calls handled
Read the case study →onsilent.com ↗

Off the clock

the rest of the team

Hiring a hands-on product or engineering lead? Let’s talk.

Based in Perth, happy to work remote or on-site.

pierre.sauvignon at gmail dot com
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