Aklima Baiguisova
Product Strategy & SaaS Mentor
I help B2B SaaS teams turn complex workflows into simple, human products and make calm, confident product decisions.
About
I'm a product leader with 10+ years in B2B SaaS: billing, payments, reporting and online platforms.
I've been a PM, team lead and Head of Product — launching new products from zero, rebuilding legacy flows and growing product teams in fast-moving companies.
Now I work as an independent advisor and mentor for founders and product leaders.
What I do
Product & UX mentoring
Regular calls to review features, hypotheses and focus.
Product strategy
Clarifying what to build next (and what to drop) so the roadmap matches the strategy.
Simplifying complex flows
Making sign-up, checkout, billing, reporting and admin tools usable for non-experts.
Founder / HoP sounding board
A trusted partner to talk through decisions, org and go-to-market.
I don't build competing products. My goal is to make your existing product and team stronger.
Experience in short
Fundraise Up is a worldwide SaaS donation platform for nonprofits. I joined right after Series A and owned product for the whole platform (excluding CRM integrations). Later I became Head of Product and built a team of 10 PMs. During my time, the company raised a $70M Series B, and valuation grew ~10x (from ~$40M to $500M). I led platform and payments work (security, AI, enterprise compliance) and improved conversion and average donation size through experiments.
Gett is a ride-hailing company in the UK and Israel, focused on business and fleets. I owned fleet products: settlements and payouts, billing, invoicing, pricing, and integrations with external finance and reporting systems. I also supported ITGC compliance for IPO readiness.
Earlier, I worked in a large industrial manufacturer (graphite and carbon materials) and in an IT services company building ERP systems for the energy sector. I delivered ERP tools, reporting, and internal systems that reduced manual work and scaled with the business.
Who I work with
- •B2B SaaS and data-heavy products with complex user journeys.
- •Founders and product leaders who want a senior product partner a few hours a month.
- •Teams that feel their product has become heavy and want to simplify without losing depth.
How we can work together
One-off advisory session
60–90 min on Zoom, with a short brief sent in advance.
Monthly mentoring / advisory
A set number of calls + async comments on docs and product flows.
Focused product sprint
A short deep dive into one key area (onboarding, checkout, billing, reporting, internal tools).
Recent work
Helped a SaaS team see where users were getting lost in key journeys and turn that into a small set of UX changes they could ship quickly.
Worked with a data-heavy product to make the interface less "for experts only" and easier for non-technical staff to trust and use.
Mentored early-stage founders on roadmap and focus so the product matched a clear target user, not "everyone at once".