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Portfolio / Vol. 01 / 2026

James Finnie

Product manager designing the agent layer for finance — where the model proposes, the human decides, and both leave a trace.

Senior Product Manager — CIBC Investor’s Edge
Toronto · previously London · building since 2019

Live Signal Δ 24h
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§ 01

Thesis — how I’m building in the agent era.

I.

The product is no longer the dashboard. The product is the agent — and the seams where it hands control back.

II.

Coordination is free now. What’s scarce is taste — knowing which of a thousand generated paths is the one to ship.

III.

Speed of iteration is a proxy for conviction. If you can’t rebuild it in a weekend, you probably shouldn’t defend it for a quarter.

IV.

Trust is the only moat left. Every opaque recommendation spends it; every legible one earns it back.

§ 02

Selected Work — prototypes, shipped.

Live Demo ↗ Signal
2025AI / SaaSSolo build

Signal — an agent for product feedback.

Problem

Product teams drown in Slack, GitHub, support. Themes surface weeks late — if at all.

Approach

An agent reads every channel, scores sentiment and urgency, clusters intent, drafts the epic.

Stack

Ingestion → embeddings → urgency model → theme clusters → epic generator.

Effect

Weekly roadmap review collapsed from days to a ten-minute scan.

Open the prototype →
Live Demo ↗ Prism
2025AI / FintechSolo build

Prism — the single next move.

Problem

Self-directed investors face N possible actions. “What should I do?” has no honest answer.

Approach

Solver first. Language second. The model narrates what the math already decided.

Stack

Holdings → tax + market model → ranked actions → conversational follow-up.

Effect

One defensible recommendation — with reasoning a retail investor can read and argue with.

Open the prototype →
Live Demo ↗ DICOM Viewer
2026Healthcare / OSSWeekend build

DICOM Viewer — vibe-coded in under an hour.

Problem

Facing surgery in 2026. Needed to read my own CT scans. They sat behind a paywall.

Approach

Skipped the hospital software. Prompted a browser-native viewer into existence.

Stack

Drag-drop DICOM parse · window/level · pan/zoom · multi-frame · full metadata · zero server.

Intent

Proof that a weekend + a model removes a gatekeeper. Open source from day one.

Open the viewer →
§ 03

Systems — agents in production.

Engine / 01

Feedback Agent

A background loop that reads every channel, clusters intent, and proposes roadmap work — while the team sleeps.

Slack / GH / Support Sentiment Clusters Opportunity Score Product Epic

Turn fragmented customer signals into clear product priorities.

Engine / 02

Capital Decision Agent

State, tax, and signal collapsed by a deterministic solver — then narrated by a model the human can overrule.

Holdings Tax Position Market Opportunity Optimisation Next Best Action

Help investors make better decisions through structured reasoning.

§ 04

About — the short read.

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Product manager studying what we trust after the models arrived.

I work at the intersection of data, systems, and human judgement — three surfaces that keep converging as AI matures. Financial markets. Digital health. AI-assisted investing.

Started in London building fintech — FX, payments, trading. Moved to Canada for connected health, where decisions had to survive regulators. Now at CIBC Investor’s Edge, prototyping the agent layer for Canadian retail investors.

When the model is faster than you, what’s left to decide?

Offline: golf, Sunday roasts, rugby, and renovating a house in Toronto with my wife Natalie.

§ 05

Experience — the résumé, compressed.

2025 — Now
CIBC Investor’s Edge

Senior Product Manager

Prototyping the agent layer for Canada’s self-directed investors — personalisation, AI-assisted analysis, and how clients read portfolios, opportunities, and signal.

Toronto
2023 — 2025
Trudell Medical International

Manager · Connected Health & Intelligent Systems

Product strategy for connected healthcare platforms — device data, analytics, and mobile clinical decision-support.

London, ON
2022 — 2023
StoneX (SNEX)

Associate Product Manager · Global Trading Platforms

Trading infrastructure and digital experiences for institutional and retail financial markets.

London
2021 — 2022
Equals Money (EQLS)

Product Analyst

Fintech payments infrastructure, FX products, and digital financial services.

London
§ 06 — Get in touch

Let’s build.

Open to conversations on agents, fintech, and the edge between what a model proposes and what a human actually trusts.

Based in Toronto · open to remote