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Head of Product · Retail-Tech / Fintech · Current product

Purchase Intelligence

An AI-powered insights product built on top of large-scale purchase and receipt data, helping merchants understand customer behavior and unlock new revenue streams.

RoleHead of Product
Companyanybill GmbH
PhaseCurrent product
StackPurchase data · AI insights · Business SaaS
OutcomeExpansion revenue growth

Context

anybill sits on one of the richest first-party purchase datasets in retail — receipts at the line-item level across thousands of merchants. Until recently, that data powered compliance and convenience. The opportunity was bigger: turn it into a product merchants actively use to grow.

Purchase Intelligence started as a hypothesis about expansion revenue. Could the existing customer base unlock a second product — one that monetizes the data layer rather than the receipt itself? The work began with merchant interviews, sharp scoping, and a prototype built outside the existing roadmap.

The product had to land in a market shaped by retail-tech buying cycles, regulated data handling, and very different levels of analytics maturity across customers. Simplicity, defensibility, and a clear "so what" were non-negotiable.

What I did

  • Owned the product from problem framing through 0→1 build, working hand-in-hand with engineering, data, and commercial teams.
  • Designed an AI-powered insights layer on top of the existing purchase and receipt data, prioritizing use cases with clear merchant ROI.
  • Aligned product, sales, and partnerships behind a focused commercial wedge inside the existing customer base.
  • Set up the discovery and delivery rhythm — outcome-focused roadmap, measurable bets, and weekly merchant feedback loops.
  • Connected the product to broader anybill platform decisions on pricing, packaging, and partner integrations.

Outcome

A new revenue stream inside an existing customer base — measurable expansion revenue, sharper positioning in retail-tech, and a product line that earned its place next to the core platform.

Expansion revenue growth

What I learned

In B2B SaaS, "AI features" are not a strategy. The leverage is in choosing the one merchant problem where AI changes the unit economics, and then defending that wedge with data quality and tight feedback loops.