Privacy Product Foundations Sprint
A fixed twelve-week engagement that puts a defensible privacy and product foundation in place.
12-week fixed-scope project, milestone billing
Canadian privacy · AI governance · SaaS product
Your roadmap is adding privacy and AI risk faster than you can staff for it.
Senior product leadership for Canadian SaaS teams, Series A to pre-IPO, building with sensitive data and AI.
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Years shipping products that handle sensitive data
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Regulatory and AI frameworks the practice draws on
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Ways to engage, from a fixed sprint to a fractional lead
The problem
Growth outruns the team that keeps it safe
Somewhere between Series A and Series C, the product moves faster than the people behind it.
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Features start touching sensitive data.
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AI goes from an experiment to a roadmap commitment.
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Quebec Law 25 and the coming federal reform start deciding what you can ship.
That work sits between product, engineering, legal, and security, and it usually has no clear owner. Hiring a senior product leader with real privacy and AI depth takes months, when you can find one at all.
How to work together
Three ways in, one practice
Privacy Product Advisor
Senior judgement on your privacy and AI product decisions, month to month.
6-month minimum retainer, 4 to 5 days per month
Fractional Head of Product (Privacy and AI)
A senior product leader who owns strategy, roadmap, and regulatory-aware delivery, part-time.
6-month minimum retainer, 8 to 10 days per month
A ladder, not a menu: you decide at each step, and nothing is committed up front.
Fit
Who this is for
A quick gut check before we talk. It does the qualifying a price tag normally would; pricing is scoped on the fit call and quoted in writing.
Who HYNTYT works with
- Mid-market Canadian SaaS, roughly Series A through pre-IPO.
- Privacy regulation or AI features are actively shaping the roadmap.
- No senior product leader with privacy depth on staff, or one who wants a second opinion on a specific call.
Who HYNTYT is not for
- Pre-product-market-fit, or not yet ready for senior advisory.
- Looking for staff augmentation, a junior PM, or hourly task work.
- Looking for a law firm or a certification body, not product leadership.
The rules that shape the work
Frameworks in the room on every call
The live ones that matter, each stated as what it means for a product decision.
PIPEDA
The federal baseline for personal data. It sets how you handle consent, access, and breach response for any product with Canadian users.
Quebec Law 25
Live exposure for anything serving Quebec, from privacy impact assessments to stricter consent. Plan for it early and it stays routine.
Bill C-36 (PPCDA)
The third run at replacing PIPEDA, introduced June 2026. Build with it in mind now and you avoid a retrofit later.
ISO 42001
The AI management-system standard. The job is getting your governance to the point a certifying body can audit it.
NIST AI RMF
A voluntary framework for spotting and managing AI risk. We use it as a working scaffold for governance decisions.
NIST Privacy Framework
A way to manage privacy risk across the product lifecycle, mapped to the calls teams actually make.
Credentials
Security, product, and privacy research in one person
CISSPPMPPMC-VIIIPSMPSPOKepner-TregoeDIT candidate (Capella, 2027)MSc Information SystemsBSc Computer Science
None of these is rare on its own. Together, they mean the product call, the security posture, and the regulatory exposure get weighed in the same conversation.
Behind the practice
Founder-led, built on shipped work
HYNTYT is led by James Dreher, who spent seventeen years building privacy and security products at BlackBerry, Manulife, eSentire, and Qohash. Canadian SaaS teams building with sensitive data and AI now get that same judgement, without the full-time hire.
Book a 30-minute fit call
Thirty minutes to see if it is a fit.
No pitch, no obligation.