About

Andres Avalos.

Chief Product Officer · Future of Work Practitioner · Houston, TX

Background

I've spent my career at the intersection of people, product, and organizational change. As a CPO, I've led teams through the messy, non-linear work of building products that actually shift behavior — not just ship features.

That work has taught me something: the biggest lever in any organization isn't the technology. It's how people understand their role in a changing system. Most companies are still running 20th-century operating models on top of 21st-century tools, and the friction that creates is where most transformation efforts die.

Iota Theory exists to think seriously about that gap — and, over time, to back the people and ideas working to close it.

The thesis

“Iota” is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet. In physics, it represents the smallest meaningful increment of change. The bet here is that durable progress doesn't come from moonshots — it comes from the smallest change that actually sticks, applied consistently, at scale.

Focus areas

Future of Work

Organizational design for what's actually coming, not what was.

AI as Infrastructure

Not a feature. Not a chatbot. The new operating layer for every company.

DEI as Strategy

Not compliance theater. The hard, structural work that compounds.

Earth Initiatives

Regenerative frameworks and the companies building long-term.

Product Leadership

How CPOs actually operate. The craft behind the title.

Small Bets

The smallest change with the highest leverage. Finding it, making it stick.