Emily Sas.
Product leadership & strategy · health and care
I help health and care organisations make better product decisions, especially the ones involving data and AI.
Interim and advisory product leadership, product and data strategy, and AI adoption that sits inside clinical governance rather than around it.
benefit from a failing product I turned around
faster clinical reports with AI, inside clinical governance
Taking on interim and advisory work, and open to the right permanent roleWays to work with me →
Four ways I add value.
Each starts with a problem, in the words people usually use when they first describe it to me.
“An important product or programme is off track.”
Turning around products and programmes
I've made a habit of being handed the product nobody else wanted and making it work: a troubled medication pilot that became the company's most successful product, and a platform programme that needed stopping before it could be fixed.
See the case studies“We need AI, but we can't afford to get it wrong.”
Adopting AI without compromising safety
Deciding where AI is worth it and where it isn't, then building the governance so adoption happens inside clinical safety and data protection rather than around them.
See the case studies“We're busy, but I'm not sure we're working on the right things.”
Focusing on what actually matters
I look past the brief for what's really driving the problem. A "better patient portal" turned out to be a cost-to-serve problem, and the real advantage at Cera Care turned out to be its data. The strategy follows from finding that.
See the case studies“We ship regularly, but we're not seeing the impact.”
“Product just builds whatever stakeholders ask for.”
Building a product function that works
Operating models, hiring and progression for organisations that are new to product or moving from delivery-led to outcome-led. I think developing people is the job, not something fitted around it.
See the case studiesWhat people say.
“Emily didn't just impose a framework, but together we partnered on figuring out what good actually meant for our context rather than importing something generic.”
Director of Product and Technology Delivery · led Technology Delivery alongside Emily at Clinical Partners
“She's great at asking the right questions and figuring out not just how to use AI, but when it makes the most sense to do so.”
Data Scientist and Technical Product Manager · worked with Emily at Cera Care
“Emily brought order to chaos.
…Emily has a brilliant mind for absorbing swathes of information and condensing that down into actions and priorities.”
Co-Founder, Almond Digital Health, and former emergency doctor · worked in Emily's team at Clinical Partners
Interim leadership, fractional advice or a fixed-scope second opinion.
Choose the shape that fits. I'm also open to the right permanent role.
A case study.
All case studies →Latest writing.
All writing →The lab: emilybuilds.ai
Prototypes, AI experiments and build logs, done in the open so my judgement about what AI can and can't do stays first-hand.
Visit the lab ↗