R&D lab for publishers experimenting with generative AI

Authentic and enthusiastic product leader with a proven track record of taking products from idea stage to millions in sales.

Currently in discovery mode, looking for my next adventure in ML/AI. Feeling blessed to be an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at my hometown university, where I can give back to the local startup community.

Previously co-founded a B2B SaaS company, where I envisioned and built a marketing technology product from mock-up to its first million in revenue in less than 12 months. I grew that startup until it was acquired by a strategic buyer, where I led product development for its ABM division.

My success stems from these principles:
* Persistently focus on ambitious goals. 
* Be a doer and inspire others into action by leading from the front. 
* Deplore and trim inefficiency in all things. 
* Communicate persuasively. 
* Prepare for interactions, never "wing it."
* Be calm in turbulent environments.

Rodrigo Fuentes

Just wrapped my session on the ARMTech Innovation Stage. TLDR: the market is crowded with AI-everything. So we set out to show something different:

We’re not just a vendor with live AI deployments across 100+ financial institutions... 

We operate as the first nationwide, licensed AI collections agency with real proof of performance.

In a live 4‑way champion/challenger, Kompato emerged as the top performer on a $240M charged-off personal loan portfolio. 

Demos are cool, but the bar for “AI in collections” should be: 

• Real portfolios
• Real regulatory constraints
• Measurable results

If you’ll be in Dallas for ARMTech, I’d love to compare notes on what you’re seeing in your own portfolios and share updated numbers from this ongoing test.

--
Thx to Mike Gibb and AccountsRecovery.net for hosting!

Generative AI Product Leader | GTM Strategist | Driving Products from Idea to Market

CEO @ AccountsRecovery.net | Educating & Engaging Credit and Collection Leaders | Learn. Adapt. Lead.

The biggest advantages don’t come from 
louder vendors or bigger teams.

They come from better decisions.

How you choose technology?
How you allocate people?
How you spend limited budget
before it’s gone?

That’s exactly what this week’s webinars are designed to surface.

Here’s what’s happening this week on AccountsRecovery:

📅 7𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 2026 | 1:00 𝐏𝐌

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 : ARMTech Innovation Stage: Home Edition

Each company gets 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬.
No bloated decks.
No canned presentations.

Just a clear answer to one question:
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭?

A vote will determine which companies earn a spot on stage at ARMTech
and compete for the grand prize:

🎟️ 𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 2027.

This is how innovation earns attention.

Click To Join : https://lnkd.in/e84CMX8e

📅 9𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 2026 | 1:00 𝐏𝐌

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: How to Allocate Human Capital in Today’s Collection Environments?

𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬:
Terry Merrell — President, First Financial Resources
Cathy Tylutki    PHR, SHRM-CP, CCP — Chief Human Resources Officer, Harris & Harris
Angela Armstrong — Integrator | Operations Executive, TSI
Rodrigo Fuentes - Generative AI Product Leader

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧:
 • Where automation creates the illusion of productivity?
 • How to decide which accounts deserve human effort?
 • The one metric that matters more than dials per hour.
 • How to prevent burnout as complexity increases?

This is the kind of discussion 
Your peers will be having in January.
 
Worth passing along to the people you plan decisions with.

🔁 Repost this and 
let your network know you’ll be part of the conversation.

Webinar Jan 7th

Humans should be reserved for exceptions and leverage -- not for scale. 

The objective is to increase the value-per-human by shifting volume to AI while making humans more effective on the handful of accounts where they change outcomes. 

Key principles to consider on this journey:

1) Triage: clear boundaries driven by confidence + rules

2) Exception categories that should almost always hit humans

3) Human role design — make humans specialists, not generalists

4) Routing & handoff: design the UX and the audit trail

5) Compliance, safety, and governance

6) Human Workforce strategy (redefine careers; re-skill & redeploy)

7) All of the above, measured by metrics that matter (automation rate; escalation rate and reasons; time-to-resolution and average handle time for AI vs. human cases; recovery per FTE and cost-per-dollar-collected; compliance exceptions per thousand contacts; and more)

If you're interested in this topic, I encourage you to join me and 
Terry Merrell — President, First Financial Resources
Cathy Tylutki    PHR, SHRM-CP, CCP — Chief Human Resources Officer, Harris & Harris
Angela Armstrong — EVP & GM  at TSI

S/O to Mike Gibb for hosting this webinar.

Grove

Grove enables private company shareholders to earn money on their illiquid shares without selling.

Founder

YPO is a global membership and community of 30,000+ CEOs running companies with a combined revenue of $9T+ in over 130 countries.

Member

The Krillest

A pop-up Soho house in Ibiza, merging tech entrepreneurs with taste-makers like Grammy-winners and UNESCO Artists for Peace.

Co-Founder

Lift & Co.

Publicly traded tech and media platform in the cannabis industry. 

Scaled the company from Pre-Seed to public listing as CEO. 

- Scaled to ~$10M ARR and took the company public through a reverse take-over 
- Ranked one of Canada's Top Growing Companies and Top 50 Startups
- Canada's largest online marketplace to compare and review cannabis products (1M+ users)
- North America's largest consumer & industry trade show series with over 40,000 annual attendees
- Market insights subscription product built in partnership with Nielsen Global (NYSE:NLSN)
- Creator of the CannSell Retail Certification, enabling over $0.5B in annual retail cannabis sale for ~40% of Canada's population (legally mandated by Ontario, Yukon and Nunavut)

Contractor

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Focused on securities and M&A transactions. Left to build Lift & Co.

Lawyer (Articling)

Primarily supported the corporate group on securities offerings, M&A transactions, and private equity transactions.

Summer Law Student

The World Bank

Improved investment outcomes in developing countries by designing insolvency and alternative dispute resolution governance as part of the "Debt Resolution & Business Exit Group"​.

Deployed on assignment in Bangladesh.

Governance & Finance Consultant

Queen's Business Consulting

Developed a turnaround strategy for a nonprofit art studio that freed up cash flow and competitively repositioned the entity.

Consultant

Queen's School of Business

Awarded a research grant to examine the impact of labor law on business decisions.  

Authored “Does it Matter What Your Employees Do Outside of Work? Off-Duty Conduct and its Implications for Organizations and Employees”; recognized with a certificate of achievement by Queen’s University and presented at the 50th Annual Canadian Industrial Relations Association Conference (2013).

Research Fellow

Towers Watson

Synthesized various industry trends into recommendations on appropriate executive compensation for a diverse portfolio of private and public sector clients.

Executive Compensation Analyst

founder & ceo @ Grove

Startup founder, investor and community creator.



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