Product strategy · Team leadership · Hands-on engineering

Build the product. Grow the team. Move the business forward.

I help founders turn growth plans into product direction, the right team, and working software - and lead the changes alongside them.

Ultra-lean and AI-native.

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Karol Galanciak
Karol GalanciakBusiness judgment. Builder’s instinct.

Where we begin

Where do you need help?

For founders of growing product companies, from a validated prototype to an established product and engineering team.

You don’t need to choose a service before we talk. Bring the decision you’re facing.

How we work together

Clarity. Progress. Ownership.

  1. Understand the decision

    Examine the product, people and evidence. Agree what matters and what needs to change.

  2. Make useful progress

    Set priorities, lead agreed work and review what changes for customers and the business.

  3. Build lasting ownership

    Give your team the knowledge, responsibilities and practices to carry the work forward.

The person doing the work

A business perspective, with the ability to build.

I’m Karol Galanciak. Over eleven years at Smily (formerly BookingSync), I went from senior engineer to CTO, then co-founder and CPTO.

I helped build a larger organisation, then had to rebuild it smaller. My work spans business and product decisions, building and leading teams, and hands-on engineering.

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Working together

Recommendations

Karol is one of the best people I have worked with. I have followed his careers for over the past ten years now and I have watched him grow from someone deeply hands-on with the technical side into a leader with real strategic and people responsibility, without losing what made him great in the first place: there’s a real person behind every technical problem. Give him a messy customer issue and he will quickly turn it into a clear, thoughtful product decision. That combination is rare. I trust him completely, and his work speaks for itself.

Ella Fraase Storm

Chief Customer Officer

Karol has a true “whatever it takes” mindset and a level of ownership I’ve rarely seen in my entire career -when he gives you his word, you can consider it done. I’ve seen him grow from CTO to CPTO brilliantly, combining extremely deep technical expertise with a rare ability to understand product and business challenges. If I were starting a company tomorrow or needed someone I truly trusted for advice, Karol would be at the very top of my list, 100%.

Florian Stenström

COO

I had the pleasure of working closely with Karol on several fintech partnerships as Head of Partnerships. He brings a rare combination of strategic clarity and operational rigor, able to translate complex partnership requirements into product decisions the whole team could execute against with confidence. Karol was instrumental in driving these initiatives from concept to real, shipped outcomes, always deeply engaged and exacting in his standards. A CPTO who genuinely partners with the business side, not just supports it.

Maud Blanchard de La Brosse

Head of Partnerships

Your next decision

What do you want to move forward?

Bring the product, team or growth decision you’re facing. We will figure out the next steps.

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