Energy Leadership Coach | Leadership Trainer | R&D Expert

Can't shut off? Always on edge?

If you're highly sensitive, HSP, ADHD, or neurodiverse - your nervous system operates differently. 

You naturally pick up more. Process deeper. Feel misalignment faster.

When you override your wiring? Your body shuts you down.

I help sensitive and neurodiverse founders regulate their nervous systems so they can build businesses that work WITH their wiring, not against it.

Take the Free Founder Regulation Assessment → founder-regulation-assessment.lovable.app

My Story

Three years ago, I moved from Holland to the Portuguese mountains to escape burnout.

It didn't work.

Working 8am-10pm. Phone at dinner. Snapping at my kids - I remained stuck in survival mode.

My chest was tight. Mind racing. I'd lost the ability to feel what my body was saying.

That wake-up call changed everything.

I stopped trying to push through my dysregulation and instead started treating through somatic work and regulation.

Now I help other sensitive and neurodiverse founders do the same.

So if this is you...

- Can't shut off - mind races, body won't rest
- Always on edge - chest tight, revenue dips spiral you
- Body refuses to fake it 
- You feel everything 3x harder
- Decide from panic, not strategy
- Rest feels dangerous
- Irritable with people you love

Better boundaries alone won;t solve your problme. You need nervous system regulation.

How I Work
→ Map your nervous system patterns
→ Rebuild regulation capacity
→ Create rhythms that honour your wiring
→ Lead from presence, not performance

What makes this different is that most business coaching ignores the body. Most nervous system work doesn't understand business. 

Almost nothing addresses how sensitive and neurodiverse systems work differently.

I bridge all three.

I bring nervous system science (Polyvagal Theory) and body-based practices (Somatic Experiencing) into entrepreneurship for founders whose systems operate differently.

Your system picks up everything. Processes everything. Feels everything.
You dysregulate faster - and pay a higher price.

The popular "push through" advice? breaks you.

When you work WITH your wiring? Everything changes.

Start Here

Free 5-min assessment: Take it here → founder-regulation-assessment.lovable.app
1:1 Coaching: Book call here → https://cal.com/daniel-philips-coaching/clarity-call

The real breakthrough was learning to feel what was happening inside - and lead from there.

Daniel Philip Wilcock

I Build and Grow AI B2B SaaS | Product + Tech Adviser @ 47+ SaaS Businesses | Ex-Amazon | CEO at Liberate Labs

Most SaaS founders hit a wall between $1M-$5M ARR. 
Growth stalls. Churn climbs. The next funding round feels impossible.

I've been there. As a former Amazon engineer, 
I've seen what separates companies that scale from those that struggle.

Here's what I've learned: 
It's not about hiring more people. 
It's about building better systems.

Today, I serve as Fractional CTO for 12+ SaaS companies and run Liberate Labs, 
where we've helped founders achieve:

→ 25-50% revenue growth in 6 months
→ 30% churn reduction through funnel optimization
→ $2M+ in unlocked expansion revenue
→ 3x revenue growth in 24 months (Series A client)

My approach is different: 
I don't just give advice, I build and implement the systems myself. 

1. Customer Journey Funnels. 
2. Product roadmaps. 
3. Engineering execution. 
4. Marketing automation. 

All designed to turn your growth plateau into predictable, scalable revenue.

What makes this work:
✓ Engineering-led methodology (not marketing fluff)
✓ Focus on measurable outcomes, not vanity metrics
✓ 60-day implementation sprints (no endless consulting)
✓ Money-back guarantee if you don't see results

I've packaged everything that works into proven systems. If you're a B2B SaaS founder ready to break through your growth ceiling without burning cash on expensive hires, let's talk.

Dm me on LinkedIn (I stay super active) or email me at: jihad@liberate-labs.com

Jihad Iqbal

Founders should hug their employees' kids. 

After a certain scale it's easy to just become a robot.

Just thinking about resources and constraints, optimizing, scaling.

All that goes out the window when you seeing all the families smiling and enjoying themselves

It was an honor and pleasure to take the Liberate Labs team and their families who support them day-in and day-out 2025 All Hands. 

It was ~60 of us: staff, their partners, and kids.

These moments remind you that it's not just about the destination, it's about the journey as well. 

The little moments of seeing the team happy and enjoying

The work paying off in the present moment

Not when we hit some arbitrary financial target. Like literally RIGHT NOW.

Thank you to the entire Liberate Labs team for those moments and looking forward to 2026 ❤️ 🎉

I Build and Grow AI B2B SaaS | Product + Tech Adviser for 47+ SaaS Products | Ex-Amazon | CEO at Liberate Labs

AI in 2026: It’s Not About Bigger Models — It’s About Better Systems

Everyone’s watching model leaderboards. But the real AI shift? It’s happening beneath the models.

By late 2025, agentic AI evolved from fragile prototypes to reliable workflows. Hallucination rates dropped. Recovery and verification matured. And orchestration became the real multiplier — best seen when Poetiq hit 75% on ARC-AGI-2 not with a larger model, but with smarter system design.

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📞 Need help designing robust AI systems?
We’ve worked with 50+ founders at Liberate Labs to build agentic systems with tools, evals, verification, and memory.

🌐 Book a call: https://lnkd.in/eSUbFHNv

🔗 Connect with Jihad Iqbal on LinkedIn:
https://lnkd.in/eqNeAiDV

⚡ Stop watching the model leaderboards. Start orchestrating systems.

If you’re serious about building AI that works in messy, real-world SaaS — reach out.

#AI2026 #AgenticAI #Poetiq #LiberateLabs #ARCAGI2 #LLMOrchestration #AIProductDesign #AIEngineering #RAG #AItools #Guardrails #ContinuousLearning #AIForFounders #AIPM #AITools

I talk to 20+ SaaS founders every month.

Here's why most can't break past their first AI feature:

They chase the shiny stuff.

Multi-agent systems. Cutting-edge models. Complex workflows that sound impressive in demos.

Meanwhile, their users can't even trust the basic output.

I've watched this pattern kill dozens of implementations. Teams spend months building sophisticated AI architecture that fails the moment real users touch it.

The winners do the opposite.

They start with the smallest workable model. Add strict guardrails. Build manual fallbacks for edge cases. Treat "not screwing up" as more important than raw intelligence.

I just helped a SaaS founder go from stuck prototype to $300K pipeline in 90 days. We didn't use the latest model. We used boring constraints, simple templates, and human-in-the-loop validation.

His conversion rate went from 12% to 34%.

Not because the AI was smarter. Because it was reliable.

The market has moved past AI hype. Users want solutions that work consistently, not demos that impress investors.

Focus on the bottlenecks in your user experience. Build small, specific improvements around those friction points. Skip the fancy chatbots.

Reliability beats intelligence. Every single time.

Your users don't care about your model architecture. They care about getting their job done consistently

This is what separates the builders from the talkers.

Nicholas Falldine just showed me and Anish Bhatt something that broke our brains.

Two weeks of specs, PRDs, and back-and-forth between product, design, and engineering? Gone.

He sits in Replit, Lovable, and Cursor and literally *co-creates* the product in real time with his team. No translation layers. No throwing requirements over the wall.

But here's the part that actually matters—he doesn't just build fast. He builds *right*.

While everyone else is drowning in cockpit UIs and bloated roadmaps, Nicholas uses AI as a force multiplier for empathy. He mines real customer conversations to ground every product decision in what users actually say and do, not internal opinions.

His process? Prototype the entire 12-month vision end-to-end, then slice it into shippable bets the team can test immediately. The vision isn't a deck—it's a working experience users can click through.

In a world where AI creates infinite options, Nicholas keeps teams anchored to the smallest, sharpest product slices that move the business and the user outcome. Strategy becomes the guardrail, not the bottleneck.

Two startup exits. Artist-turned-PM. The rare product leader who can paint the big narrative, build the actual thing, and keep everyone grounded in reality—all at AI speed.

We dove deep into his entire methodology on the latest Product Lab episode. If you're tired of feature factories and want to see what real-time product building looks like, watch it here: https://lnkd.in/ePUsHjNK

Speed is the only unfair advantage a startup has. Nicholas just showed us how to actually use it.

VP Product @ Jeeves | Inventor of Apple Pay Cash | Built products at Apple, Google & Square | Georgia Tech 40 Under 40

Speed is the only unfair advantage a startup has.
But AI just made “speed” dangerously easy.
 
Tools like Replit, Lovable, Cursor, Notion AI, Claude.
They’re collapsing the translation layers between product, design, and engineering.
 
That sounds like a win.
Until you ship yourself into the wrong direction. Fast.
 
I’ve watched teams:
- Replace PRDs with prototypes. Then lose the “why”
- Ship 10 features in a month. Then realize none move revenue
- Build cockpit UIs. More buttons, more confusion, more churn
- Let “AI can do it” turn into “we didn’t think it through”
 
The new risk isn’t velocity.
It’s velocity without a strategy yardstick.
 
In this episode with Nicholas Falldine (artist turned PM, 2x startup exit, conversational AI expert), me and Jihad Iqbal break down what’s actually changing, and how strong product teams stay human in an AI-built world.
 
In this breakdown, we reveal:
🔹 Why the old PM process was a messy game of telephone
🔹How prototypes became the new “living artifact”
🔹 When speed helps. And when it creates feature factories
🔹 How to avoid “cockpit UI” products and accidental complexity
🔹 Why “curiosity time” is now your competitive moat
🔹 How to use AI for insight mining, not just building
🔹 A practical way to keep direction while shipping faster
 
If you’re building AI features, the question isn’t “can we ship it?”
It’s “should we ship it, and will it matter 12 months from now?”
 
Watch the full video here 👇
https://lnkd.in/g5Qqjgwu

Built for product leaders, and non-technical SaaS founders who want speed and direction.

I spent 3 years watching SaaS founders make the same AI mistake.

They chase capability when they should chase reliability.

Had a call last week with a founder who burned through $100K building an "autonomous sales agent." It hallucinated client data. Sent wrong proposals. Created more work than it solved.

Here's what I told him:

Start small. Not flashy.

75% of enterprises avoid customer-facing AI because of reliability concerns. Not because the models aren't smart enough.

The companies winning aren't building full agents from day one. They're starting with constrained, high-control systems. Then gradually increasing autonomy as they prove trust.

Think workflow automation. Not replacement.

The real moat isn't having the fanciest model. It's enduring the grind of deeply mapping workflows, understanding non-negotiables, and iterating until it's bulletproof.

Most AI teams I work with spend 80% of their time on workflow analysis and data. 20% on the sexy model work.

That's backwards from what founders think they're buying.

Pain tolerance is the new competitive advantage. Not model IQ.

The question isn't "what's the most complex thing we can build?"

It's "what's the right constraint to start with?"

Build trust first. Scale autonomy second.

Your customers don't care about your model. They care about results they can count on.

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