Fractional product manager and freelance developer based in Lyon, France. I scope what needs to be built, build it, and ship it to production. One person from the first call to handover, working in English with teams across Europe.
Most projects fail before the first line of code, on a scope nobody dared to write down. I work on both halves of that problem, together or separately.
The product manager you can't yet justify hiring full time. I turn a vague need into an executable scope, then hold the delivery rhythm through to production, with the explicit goal that your team no longer needs me at the end.
An internal tool that saves your team hours, a prototype to put in front of real users, an online store, or a site that states your offer clearly. I design it, build it, ship it, and hand you the keys.
I started out building online stores for small businesses. Today I lead products in-house at a B2B SaaS company and build applications as a freelancer. The two jobs feed each other: I know what a sloppy scope costs, because I'm the one who writes the code afterwards.
Not values on a page: three commitments written into the quote, verifiable during the engagement, and enforceable at the end.
A scope document listing everything you will do is worthless. Mine lists what you will not do, and why: which feature moves to v2, which edge case stays manual, which request costs more than it will ever return. That document is what stops the roadmap being rewritten every month.
A written scope within 48 hours of the call, a marketing site live in one to three weeks, a demo at the end of every one-to-two-week cycle. If I slip, you see it at the next cycle rather than at delivery, and you can stop there, with no penalty.
A checkout flow is judged on three numbers: add-to-cart rate, checkout abandonment, average order value. We measure them before, decide changes on that basis, and read them again after. A redesign that moves none of the three has produced nothing, however good it looks.
I don't work with everyone. These three situations are where I add the most, because I have lived both sides of them: the one who sets the scope and the one who writes the code.
You know exactly where it hurts, nobody has time to write it down, and the agency quotes you have received so far price a scope that was never defined. We start by writing that scope, not by building.
You can't yet justify a full-time product manager, and what's missing isn't more specs: it's someone to make the calls, hold them over time, and leave the team self-sufficient.
Or a site rented from a platform you want to leave without losing your search rankings. Success is measured on conversion and on owning your own site, not on another aesthetic refresh.
Shopify is where I learned the trade, and it's still a large part of my work: more than twenty-five stores built or taken over, from a first launch to a full migration off PrestaShop. A store is judged on three numbers (add-to-cart rate, checkout abandonment, average order value), not on the mockup.
Small-business owners, craftspeople, founders. The originals are in French; the translations below stay as close to their wording as possible.
Read all reviews on GoogleWe worked with Pascal on the migration and redesign of our website. Pascal did an excellent job and made himself available throughout the project. He is very clear and concise in what he undertakes. We recommend him!
We are delighted with our collaboration with Pascal. Everything went smoothly and delivery was fast! The result lives up to our expectations and we are getting very positive feedback from our customers. Recommended without hesitation!
We brought Pascal in for an audit and design work on our website. We appreciated his professionalism and responsiveness. An expert in his field and proactive, we highly recommend him.
Pascal set up my store in record time. When I struggled to understand how to update it, he took the time to record a video and showed me in a few minutes how to get unstuck.
Pascal is very serious, efficient and professional. I have trusted him with building several of my stores and have never been disappointed. Highly recommended!
A great experience building my website! Pascal is very available and very quick to make changes, even during his holidays. Many thanks for such professionalism.
170+ projects since 2017. Three of them below: a redesign, a migration and a product built from scratch. The full portfolio, with screenshots, lives on the French pages.
The first half of the engagement produces documents, not screens, and you can stop at the end of it.
Phase 1 Decide (you can stop here)
15 to 45 minutes, free. You leave with a written summary and a go / no-go, including “an off-the-shelf tool would do better” when that's the honest answer.
Screens, data model, journeys, edge cases, and what will not be built.
A clickable journey with every state planned. The source file is yours.
Phase 2 Build and hand over
Epics and tickets with acceptance criteria, readable by you and your team at any time.
One to two weeks each, with a deployed preview at the end. You redirect as you go.
Your infrastructure, your repository, written docs and a recorded walkthrough.
No price list: the scope decides the price, and we write the scope together. Here is how it goes from your first message to a quote you can hold me to.
Context, deadline, budget. If I'm not the right person, I say so on that call and point you to someone better placed.
What will be built, what will not, the deadline and the price, in writing, in English. You compare it with other quotes on the same basis.
The call and the proposal are free. Invoices are in euros, with no VAT charged under the French franchise en base scheme.
Yes. Calls, written scopes, specifications, documentation and code comments can all be in English. Day-to-day I work in both languages: French with clients in France, English with teams elsewhere in Europe. Client reviews on this page are translated because the originals are French.
Lyon, France, Central European Time. Most engagements are fully remote, with a video call at the end of each cycle and a board you can read at any time. On-site work is possible in Lyon and, case by case, elsewhere with a travel surcharge.
You do. The code lands in your own repository from day one, in a standard stack any developer can pick up. Source files, documentation and access are handed over at the end, along with a recorded walkthrough. There is no mandatory maintenance contract: if you come back, it's because you want to.
Yes, daily, and I don't hide it: that is what makes it possible to ship in weeks what used to take months. What it does not change: I review, I test, and I stand behind every line delivered. You receive readable, documented code on your own repository.
Invoices are issued in euros from France, payable by bank transfer. I operate under the French franchise en base de TVA scheme, so no VAT is charged on my invoices, and none is reclaimable. The amount on the quote is the amount you pay.
Fifteen minutes on context, deadline and budget. If the subject isn't right for me, I say so on that call and point you to someone better placed. It's more profitable for both of us than a quote written to be polite.
Fifteen minutes to understand your situation. The call is free, and you leave with an opinion whether or not we end up working together.
