Led by Taj Corinaldi (Former VP of Product at Yahoo, Meta & Hulu) and Dr. Sharif Corinaldi (Computer Science PhD & Principal Architect), TMC Venture Studio & Advisory combines principal-level software engineering with battle-tested product leadership and burnout-resistant organizational strategy.
We design, architect, and ship custom full-stack applications, secure internal AI workspaces, and unstructured data-to-revenue pipelines for SMBs, Government Agencies, and News Organizations.
Fractional CPO/VP leadership, EPD organizational diagnostics, and "Sanity is a Strategy" executive and PM coaching centered on cutting decision latency and building burnout resistance.
Hands-on strategic advisory and board membership for Seed to Series B founders—sharpening 0-to-1 product velocity, defensible data moats, investor positioning, and executive governance.
Product Leadership
15+ Years
VP Product @ Yahoo, Meta, Hulu, Fox
Systems Architecture
CS PhD + 10 Yrs
Production GovTech, Data & AI Delivery
Engagement Model
Outcome-Driven
Milestone builds, diagnostics & advisory
Core Philosophy
Sanity is a Strategy
High-velocity execution without burnout
Build & Advisory by Sector
Every engagement is led directly by our managing partners—pairing executive product strategy with rapid, production-grade engineering.
Growing businesses often hit an operational ceiling where staff spend hours copying data between CRMs, PDFs, billing tools, and spreadsheets. Off-the-shelf software forces you to bend to its limitations; traditional dev agencies take quarters to deliver. We build tailored applications and automated AI workflows in weeks.
How We Partner
Step 1: Discovery Wedge
2-Week Workflow & Architecture Diagnostic
Step 2: Production Delivery
Milestone-Based Custom Build (4–6 Weeks)
Step 3: Continuity
Full Code Ownership or Ongoing Managed Hosting & Iteration
01 / Build Services
Every build is scoped around a concrete operational or revenue outcome with clear milestones, strict scope guardrails, and full code ownership.
Modeled on frontier enterprise architectures, we deploy a private, multi-model AI workspace grounded in your proprietary documents and databases.
Transform dormant PDFs, messy editorial archives, and fragmented customer records into structured taxonomy, user segments, and direct monetization.
From bespoke internal CRMs to complex Newspack/WordPress VIP migrations, we combine executive product specs with PhD-level engineering velocity.
Most technology transformations stall not because of model limitations, but because of cross-functional friction between Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD), decision latency, and leadership burnout. We help organizations align their product strategy and coach their leaders to ship sustainably.
A focused diagnostic sprint to audit your current roadmap, recover wasted cloud/API inference spend in Week 1, map cross-functional EPD bottlenecks, and deliver a ruthless Stay-Scale-Sunset portfolio plan.
Selective, high-leverage fractional product leadership to guide organizations through agentic AI re-platforming, install automated multi-armed bandit experimentation, and mentor internal PM directors.
A dysregulated nervous system cannot author a durable product strategy. Taj coaches VPs, Directors, and PMs to collapse decision latency, navigate top-down pressure, and build custom somatic and offline recovery protocols.
Drawing on executive fundraising, M&A, and board experience across high-growth startups and consumer tech giants, we advise founders on 0-to-1 product velocity, separating defensible foundation/vertical data moats from commodity margins, and preparing product narratives for institutional rounds.
Unlike traditional advisors who only produce slide decks, we dedicate weekly lab blocks to designing, building, and shipping our own proprietary consumer applications, mobile games, and developer workflow tools in-house—testing frontier AI models and agentic pipelines in live production before bringing them to clients.
Principal-Led Execution
Managing Partner — Product Strategy, Coaching & Venture Advisory
Former Vice President of Product Management overseeing Yahoo News and Yahoo Home, with 15+ years leading product organizations across Meta (Facebook), Google, Hulu, Fox, and high-growth startups. Taj leads product strategy, organizational diagnostics, executive/PM burnout-resistance coaching, and venture advisory. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
Managing Partner — Principal Architect & Engineering Lead
Computer Science PhD and Principal Systems Architect with a 10-year consulting track record delivering full-stack applications, data engineering pipelines, and mission-critical custom software for government, civic, and enterprise organizations. Sharif leads system architecture, agentic engineering workflows, security, and rapid production deployment.
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