AI as a multiplier, not a buzzword
I use AI to multiply my PM craft — specs, research, analysis — and I ship AI features into products. LLMs, MCP, and deep learning shipped to production at Revelator.
Vol. 01 · Eric Denis
Eric
Denis.
An AI-augmented product manager building at the intersection of music and technology.
Barcelona — 41.38°N, 2.17°E
10+ yrs in music tech·Remote-first since 2016
↓ Scroll[ 01 / About ]
Three crafts.
One operator.
Most senior PMs in music-tech have one of these. I have all three — and they reinforce each other.
10+ years in rights & royalties
BMAT, Utopia Music, Revelator. ACR, royalty flows, DSP analytics, copyright. Shipped to PROs, distributors, and the world's biggest rights-holders.
I design and code
Front-end, UI/UX, mobile and web prototypes, websites — vibe-coded end-to-end. FestiPal: concept → mobile app → web app → prototype, all my work.
B2B SaaS by day for rights bodies and distributors, B2C music ventures after hours — festival, label, YouTube channel. The dual fluency is the point.
- Based — Barcelona
- Remote — 10+ yrs · pre-COVID
- Languages — FR / EN / ES
- Available — full-time + freelance
[ 02 / Services ]
How I can work with you.
Four offerings, two doors. Pick the lane that fits — full-time, project, or advisory.
AI-augmented product management
Roadmaps, specs, backlogs, cross-functional team leadership — multiplied by AI tooling, and shipping AI features into production.
- For
- SaaS companies (B2B / B2C), music-tech, AI-feature-heavy products
- Format
- Full-time roles · senior consulting
- Proof
- ↳Revelator AI roadmap
- ↳Utopia ACR scaled to 45,000 radios
- ↳BMAT €500K SPRE project, −80% cost
Apps & prototypes
SaaS web apps, mobile apps, interactive prototypes, MVPs — vibe-coded fast, designed to validate ideas in market.
- For
- Founders, startups, internal innovation teams, validation projects
- Format
- Project-based engagements
- Proof
- ↳FestiPal — concept → mobile app → web app → prototype, end-to-end
Websites & UI/UX
Marketing sites, portfolios, landing pages, Figma-to-React, component systems — shipped fast, designed to convert.
- For
- Small-to-mid teams who need a real site shipped fast, or design-to-code work
- Format
- Project-based engagements
- Proof
- ↳This portfolio (Next.js + Tailwind, vibe-coded)
- ↳nestmicrofest.com administration
- ↳Strapi / Heroku CMS deployments
Music-tech advisory
Patent advisory, investment due diligence, whitepaper review, royalty / rights strategy — delivered at the executive level.
- For
- Investors, music-tech startups, rights organizations, blockchain-music projects
- Format
- Referral · retainer · expert networks (Catalant, GLG, AlphaSights)
- Proof
- ↳ICE — investment advisory
- ↳Musimap — patent advisory EU/US
- ↳Allfeat — whitepaper, strategy, smart contracts
[ 03 / Selected Work ]
Where I've shipped.
Three roles, ten years, every layer of the music-rights stack — from royalty flows to content recognition AI.
Revelator
Senior PM — AI & Distribution Data Analytics
Led the AI roadmap end-to-end. Trained fraud-detection deep learning models, shipped LLM/MCP-powered Insight Reports, rebuilt client-facing analytics from the data model up.
- LLM + MCPshipped to production
- Snowflakehands-on SQL on DSP reports
- 1 unifiedERD for the whole platform
- Audited internal systems and customer workflows to identify high-impact AI opportunities
- Trained DL models that flag suspicious streams and files (fraud detection)
- Structured internal data into a Knowledge Base for an AI support chatbot
- Hands-on Snowflake / SQL on Spotify, YouTube, Meta DSP reports
Utopia Music
Senior PM, R&D — Content Recognition Tech
Founded the R&D department. Managed a fully-remote 12-person squad of engineers and data scientists. Deployed best-in-class ACR AI at industrial scale.
- 45,000radios scanned in real time
- 1,500TVs scanned in real time
- 12engineers + data scientists managed
- Founded the R&D department; led specs, roadmaps, squad operations
- Deployed best-in-class Automatic Content Recognition AI at scale
- Built wireframes for end-user webapp and dashboards
- Implemented Agile practices across distributed teams (JIRA, Miro, Slack, Scrum)
BMAT
Product Manager — Music Monitoring & Royalties · France
Spearheaded the TV and Radio monitoring system for SPRE — the French neighbouring rights society. Doubled their revenue, slashed cost, defined the product end-to-end.
- €500Kannual revenue, 2× growth
- −80%cost reduction via automation
- 5freelancers recruited & trained
- Product Owner — interface between client, engineering, and leadership
- Defined specs, roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, streamlined workflows
- Coordinated cross-functional teams (BE, FE, R&D, Operations) in Agile/Scrum
- Attended major industry events for biz dev
Earlier roles → Focus Economics, UN ILO, European Central Bank, European Commission.
[ 04 / Consulting ]
Niche advisory at the
executive level.
Brought in for the corners of music tech most product people never touch — patents, blockchain rights, exec investment calls.
ICE
Music-tech investment advisory
Advised executives on music-technology investment decisions — evaluating vendors, opportunities, and competitive positioning at the executive level.
↗ iceservices.comMusimap
Patent advisory · EU & US
Music-technology patent advisory for submission and review across the EU and US — translating product features into defensible IP.
↗ musimap.aiAllfeat
Whitepaper · strategy · smart contracts
Reviewed and edited the whitepaper, advised on strategy for a blockchain music-tech protocol bridging rights-holder data and on-chain primitives. Smart contracts exposure throughout.
↗ allfeat.orgNEST Microfest
Site admin + Stripe payments
Administrator of the website and operator of the full payment stack — Stripe-powered ticketing turning a small festival operation into a self-serve experience.
↗ nestmicrofest.comAvailable for expert calls, due diligence, and short-term advisory engagements → reach out via contact.
[ 05 / Flagship · FestiPal ]
I had the idea.
I built it.
An event management operating system for festival organizers, suppliers, venues, and talent — with a B2C ticketing layer. Concept, web, mobile, prototypes, and front-end, all built end-to-end. Launching soon.
What it is
FestiPal is the operating system for the modern festival — connecting organizers, suppliers, venues, and talent in one workspace, plus a consumer ticketing layer on top.
Three host-routed surfaces on one Next.js codebase: festipal.io for B2B marketing + workspace, app.festipal.io for the Expo mobile + web app, and tickets.festipal.io for consumer ticketing. Firebase backend, multi-language (EN / FR / DE / ES / IT), role-based permissions, Stripe + Resend integrations.
I had the idea, defined the concept, designed the workspace, built the front-end, and wired the prototypes — all bridged by my decade of music-tech product work and my decade of running festivals as CEO of NEST.
github.com/FestiPalfestipal.io · launching soon
- Built top to bottom →
- Idea & conceptFrom blank page to validated product.
- Web — festipal.ioNext.js 16, App Router, Tailwind v4, Firebase Hosting + SSR.
- Mobile — app.festipal.ioReact Native + Expo, multi-language, role-based perms.
- Tickets — tickets.festipal.ioHost-routed B2C consumer surface.
- FestiLink directoryMarketplace connecting organizers ↔ suppliers ↔ venues.
- Front-end + UI/UXPixel-perfect, light + dark, multi-language (5).
Stack →Next.js 16React 19React Native + ExpoTailwind v4TypeScriptFirebase Auth + FirestoreCloud Functions (SSR)ResendStripe
[ 06 / Entrepreneurial ]
Operator, not just observer.
The other half of the trifecta — the projects I run that put me on the same side of the table as the rights-holders my products serve.
NEST Festival
Founder & CEO · 5 editions
- €70K+annual budget
- 8partner-leads
- 50+staff + volunteers
- 30artists · latest edition
- 500+attendees
- 5 / 5editions delivered
A boutique micro-festival in the hills of Alt Penedès, an hour outside Barcelona — vineyards, pine forests, 12–14 June 2026 for the 5th edition. I founded it and run it as CEO. I built the entire operating system from scratch — people management, ops control, production roadmap, partner workflows, single point of contact for every external stakeholder. Eight partner leads each run their own track (operations, marketing, decoration, artist relations, bar, food, logistics, production), with 50+ staff and volunteers reporting in. This is a real entrepreneurial operation, not a side project.
CMYK Music
Founder · YouTube + DJ alias
- 79M+views
- 4.3Mhours watched · ~490 yrs
- 142K+subscribers
Started in Brussels in 2013 to share vinyl rips that weren't online — grown into one of the bigger curated channels for house, UK garage, and funky electro. Heavy on 1996–2006 archival material plus contemporary demos. 4.3 million hours of cumulative attention is the strongest signal: people don't just click, they stay.
Kommuna Records & Events
Co-founder · Barcelona, since 2015
- 12vinyl releases
- 5,000+copies sold worldwide
- 100+events / 11 years
Independent label and event series in Barcelona, co-curated with pekkuliar. Vinyl-focused releases (KMN001 → KMN012), event bookings including Vera, XDB, El-B, Cassy, Voigtmann. Pressing, distribution, A&R, party promotion — every operational lever an indie label has.
Kanvas.fm
Founder · web radio
- 5,000+hand-curated tracks
- 24/7algorithmic web radio
A unique selection of mellow grooves. Self-hosted Icecast on a VPS, multi-platform distribution (web stream, YouTube algorithmic segments, SoundCloud archive), listed on Streema and myTuner. Discontinued as a station but the selection lives on through my chillout DJ sets around the EU.
[ 07 / Skills & Stack ]
The toolkit, in seven buckets.
Honest qualifiers throughout — 'basics' and 'working knowledge' mean what they say. No inflation.
Ship AI features. Multiply PM craft.
- LLMs · MCP · RAG in production
- AI evals
- Vector databases (Milvus)
- AI-augmented workflows · Cursor · Claude Code · ChatGPT
- Roadmaps · specs · backlogs
- Distributed-team leadership
Where the rights live.
- DDEX / ERN
- CMOs / PROs reporting
- DSPs — Spotify, YouTube, Meta, Apple
- Automatic Content Recognition
- Royalty & rights flows
- Web3 + smart contracts for music (Allfeat)
Wiring systems together.
- REST
- OpenAPI / Swagger
- Postman
- OAuth · webhooks
- Stripe (payment processing)
- Docusign · ERD modelling
From Figma to live URL.
- Next.js · React · TypeScript
- Tailwind · Framer Motion
- Figma · UI / UX
- WordPress · Strapi (headless CMS)
- Vercel · Netlify · Supabase
- Mobile + web prototypes
Numbers into UX.
- Snowflake
- BigQuery (basics)
- SQL
- Python (basics)
- TensorFlow (basics)
- Tableau · Looker Studio · Stata
Conversational, not expert.
- GCP (working knowledge)
- Kubernetes (working knowledge)
- Docker (working knowledge)
- Comfortable in conversations with platform engineering
How I plug into eng teams.
- Git / GitHub flow · feature branches · PR-driven dev
- Code review · semantic versioning
- Async-first · distributed teams across timezones
- Agile / Scrum
- JIRA · Linear · Notion · Miro · Slack · VS Code
[ 08 / Contact ]
Let's work together.
Two doors. Same person. Pick the one that fits.
Door 01
Start a conversationHire me full-time
Senior PM roles at AI / music-tech companies. Remote-first, 10+ years before it became fashionable. Bring the trifecta — product expertise, industry operator experience, and the ability to ship code — to your team.
Door 02
Pitch me your projectBuild me a prototype
Websites, mobile and web app prototypes, vibe-coded fast. Or expert calls on music tech, royalties, and rights — exactly the kind of niche advisory I've done for ICE, Musimap, Allfeat.
- Emailcontact[at]ericdenis[dot]com
- LinkedInin/eric-denis-b977028a
- GitHub@EricDenis01
- BasedBarcelona — remote-first