A founder-led consulting practice built for the business–technology gap.

Northbound Labs is led by Emmanuel Derisse, whose background spans finance, computer science, data science, enterprise technology, analytics, APIs, AI, and product strategy. That combination is deliberate — modern operational problems are rarely purely technical or purely strategic. They live at the intersection.

Over years of working across financial services, media, technology, and growth-stage companies, one pattern held: the biggest gains rarely came from more tooling. They came from clearer strategy, cleaner data, better integrations, and picking the right two or three things to automate first.

Consulting should ship real systems, not slide decks. Every engagement is scoped to a concrete outcome — a working dashboard, an automated workflow, a documented strategy — and delivered with the same rigor as an internal build.

The goal is leverage. Save real hours. Improve real decisions. Leave the team with something they own and can extend, not a dependency on the consultant.

• Senior technical depth combined with business and finance fluency
• Founder-led — the person who scopes the work is the person who does the work
• Practical, measurable AI and automation instead of hype
• Comfortable across strategy, architecture, and hands-on build
• Discreet, professional, and used to working with executive stakeholders