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Garm Lucassen

I founded Extra Headroom and write the posts on this blog. I build AI products on my own with Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, and Extra Headroom started as the fix for a problem I kept running into: agent token costs.

Background

  • Research: a PhD in software product management from Utrecht University (2017), on user stories. Before that, a master's in business informatics and a bachelor's in information science, also at Utrecht.
  • Secfi: Head of Product from 2017 to 2021, while the company grew from 3 to 55 people.
  • Glo Dollar: built the core product as CTO, then as co-CEO and CEO built the commercial model that became its main source of revenue (2021 to 2026).
  • Own ventures: bootstrapped two consumer businesses to $2M in sales.
  • Today: building Extra Headroom, and leading product and technology part-time for startups through garm.com.

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