Mike Litman
Mastercard Foundry
15 years of strategy. 20+ AI-native products shipped. Ready to build what's next in payments and digital identity.
The Opportunity
Mastercard is no longer just a payments company. The Foundry is where that future gets built.
Digital identity, AI-powered products, 0-to-1 innovation — Mastercard is expanding its surface area beyond the card. The Foundry needs builders who can move from concept to shipped product, not just strategy decks.
The Challenge
Innovation labs produce decks. The Foundry needs to ship products.
Most corporate innovation teams stall between concept and launch. The gap isn't ideas — it's the ability to build, test and ship at speed while managing cross-functional complexity. This role demands someone who has actually built 0-to-1 products, not just overseen them from a distance.
The Answer
I'm not a developer. I'm a strategist who builds things.
I've spent 15 years at the intersection of brand strategy and emerging technology — and the last two years shipping AI-native products end-to-end. I built a £3.2M emerging tech business line from zero at MediaMonks, including digital identity propositions. I know how to move from brief to shipped product inside complex organisations, and I've done it for the brands Mastercard partners with every day.
Shipped in 6 months — independently built, live, real users
20+
Live AI-native products built and shipped — from voice agents to cultural intelligence platforms to AI-curated commerce. Not prototypes. Not concepts. Products with users.
Plus £3.2M revenue generated from a new business line built from scratch at MediaMonks
The Work
Real products. Live users. Built end-to-end.
First Order London
AI voice agent delivering personalised restaurant recommendations across London.
Voice AI · Live product
With Moshi
AI phone answering service for UK restaurants — handling real calls, real bookings.
AI Voice Agent · Commerce
Culture Terminal
Cultural intelligence platform surfacing signals across technology, brand and culture.
Data Platform · AI-curated
Buggy Smart
AI voice agent verifying buggy access across London venues — real utility, real users.
Voice AI · Accessibility
The Visible Shelf
295-book AI-curated library — editorial meets intelligent recommendation.
AI Curation · 295 books
Oishii London
84-restaurant Japanese food guide built as a curated, data-driven editorial product.
Editorial · 84 restaurants
The Approach
Brief → Build → Ship → Show. Every time.
The Foundry doesn't need another innovation framework. It needs a repeatable system that turns briefs into shipped products — fast enough to matter, rigorous enough to scale across Mastercard's ecosystem.
Why Mastercard
Because identity is the next payments layer — and I've already been building there.
At MediaMonks I designed globally viable propositions across digital identity, AI and immersive technology. Mastercard's expansion from payments infrastructure into digital identity isn't a pivot — it's the logical next product surface. I launched Cultural Capital with Mastercard as a launch panellist. I've built AI voice agents that sit at the intersection of commerce and identity — authenticating, recommending, transacting. The Foundry is where strategy meets shipping, and that's exactly where I operate.
Let's Talk
The brief is set. Let's build.
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Mike Litman
VP Innovation, Mastercard Foundry
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