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title: "Clip Automation — Startup MVP"
description: "Delivered the MVP, the founding engineering team, and 7-figure ARR."
url: "https://www.trevillyanlabs.com/work/clip-automation"
---

# Clip Automation

Startup MVP · Contract Product Lead

Delivered the MVP, the founding engineering team, and 7-figure ARR.

## The problem
The founder of an early-stage industrial-IoT startup needed to get from concept to a real, shippable product for a prospective Fortune 50 enterprise client — and to a team that could build it.

## The approach
Bill, hire #1, was brought on as a contract product leader: defined the product, drove execution end-to-end, and stood up the founding engineering team.

## The outcome
- Shipped the MVP
- Built the founding engineering team
- Drove the product to 7-figure ARR