Design leadership and visual clarity · Montreal

I'm Alejandro. I've drawn to think since I was a kid. For twenty years I've brought that habit to product and design teams across the Americas and Europe, so people can see what they're building, and why.

Clear thinking pays dividends. The opposite is also true.

What that looks like

Building products

At a startup, a few shared visual models gave the product team back a good part of its week.

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Building teams

At a scale-up, product, marketing and experience became one team of seven.

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Improving the functions

At another, we brought agency work back in-house and the pipeline kept flowing.

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Shape of Work plot for the marketing insourcing case study
The mechanism

A framework built on years of practice and research.

After years of seeing clear thinking pay off, I am turning it into a visual language others can learn and use. The Shape of Work is the first part; more is coming.

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How I work

This website demonstrates how I work with AI.

The rules for what I decide, what AI drafts, and what a script enforces — so nothing drifts.

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Start small

A fixed-scope way to work with me before committing to anything.

A short survey, a map of your organization, and the two or three gaps that cost you the most.

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About

A design arc from art to science, with visual thinking as the thread.

I drew as a kid, turned to maths and science in my thirties, and still draw so product, engineering and finance can see the same system.

About Alejandro
Hand-drawn portrait of Alejandro Marin

Available for a mandate or a role.

Consulting or full-time leadership. Montreal or remote.