Kate Balog
Product Leader. AI Builder. Contemplative.
I turn AI ideas into products people actually use.
I've spent fifteen-plus years leading product across AI, fintech, and data platforms, and I build my own product end to end as the founder of Resōno. I work with teams as a fractional product leader, advisor, speaker, and workshop host.
- Director-level product leadership
- AI & data platforms
- Founder, Resōno
- Host, The Enlightenment of AI
Fractional product leadership, advisory, speaking, and workshops
Senior product judgment for teams building with AI: strategy, roadmap, delivery cadence, and the team itself. Engagements range from a fixed-scope sprint to a seat on your leadership team, as well as talks and trainings for your organization.
Ways to work togetherThe Enlightenment of AI
Conversations at the edge of AI and awakening. A video and audio podcast on bringing spirituality and ancient wisdom into how we build and use AI, with new episodes on Wednesdays. Guest and booking inquiries welcome.
Visit the showLet the Earth report to your portfolio
The company I founded and build: an AI-native biodiversity and impact intelligence platform for the capital that shapes it. Everything I advise on, I practice here first.
Explore ResōnoWays to work together
Every engagement is scoped to outcomes and priced as a flat monthly or fixed fee.
Fractional Product Lead
2–3 days / week
I join your leadership team and run product: strategy, roadmap, delivery, and the team itself.
- Own product strategy & roadmap
- Lead prioritization & delivery cadence
- Coach PMs & level up the product org
- Drive AI/data product decisions end to end
- Hire-and-hand-off plan from day one
Advisory
~1 day / week equivalent
Ongoing senior counsel for a founder or product lead who wants a thinking partner with pattern recognition.
- Weekly working session + async access
- Roadmap & prioritization reviews
- AI investment & build-vs-buy guidance
- Board & stakeholder narrative prep
Sprint
Fixed scope · 2–6 weeks
A defined deliverable with a defined price. The right wedge when you have one decision that has to be made well.
- AI product opportunity assessment
- Product org & process audit
- 0→1 product spec & roadmap
- Due-diligence-grade product review
Speaking, Workshops & Trainings
Keynote · half-day · multi-session
Talks and hands-on sessions for teams and events on building with AI, AI readiness, and product leadership.
- Keynotes & conference talks
- AI-native product-building workshops
- Team trainings on AI-assisted delivery
- Leadership offsites & facilitated sessions
I work with a small, select client list at a time.
What working together looks like
For fractional, advisory, and sprint engagements.
Intro call — 25 min
You talk, I listen. We dig into what prompted this and what success looks like in 90 days. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you to someone who is.
Scoped proposal — within a week
A short written proposal: the outcomes we're targeting, the engagement model, cadence, and a flat monthly or fixed fee.
Kickoff — week one
Deep-dive onboarding: your product, data, customers, and team. By end of week one you have my honest read and a prioritized plan of attack.
Operate & hand off
Weekly cadence, monthly outcome reviews against what we scoped, and a deliberate hand-off plan so your team carries the work forward.
What colleagues say
From the leaders I've worked alongside.
“She has a rare ability to take an unstructured stakeholder wishlist and translate it into clear, structured requirements, then partner effectively with engineering leaders and teams to actually deliver against them. More recently, she brought that same rigor to AI-powered software delivery, spearheading an end-to-end workflow automation initiative for our legal line of business.”
“She's quick to embrace new ways of building product with AI, and partners closely across design, engineering, quality, and program management. She's also a genuine people person, balancing business acumen with high EQ to build and grow teams.”
“She's genuinely innovative, always looking for ways to apply new technology to real business problems, and she's especially AI-forward in how she thinks about product strategy. I've watched Kate take on very challenging projects such as CRM transition or a completely new invoicing and payment platform and see them through to the finish. What sets Kate apart as a leader, though, is how much she cares about her people.”
“Kate is really good at solutioning. She's done this countless times for large organizations as well as small teams, so the size and complexity of the problem statement is never a concern.”
About Kate
I've spent 15+ years building and leading product across AI, fintech, and data-driven platforms, most recently as a Director of Product Management leading a team of product managers across a portfolio of business systems.
I'm also the founder of Resōno, an AI-native impact intelligence platform I design and build hands-on, end to end. Everything I bring to clients about AI-native product building comes from doing it daily.
Alongside product, I've taught more than 500 yoga and meditation classes. That practice shapes how I lead: steady in ambiguity, present with people, and clear about what matters. I explore where that meets technology on my podcast, The Enlightenment of AI.