When the product organization is the constraint.

Signals it is time

• Roadmaps are full and nothing lands; the team is busy and the product is not moving.
• You hired senior PMs but no one owns the operating model they work inside.
• Engineering and product disagree about what "done" means, every sprint.
• AI is in the strategy deck and nowhere in production.
• A product leader just left, and the next hire is four months out.
• PE ownership wants a product thesis that survives diligence.

What the work looks like

• Diagnostic (4–6 weeks). Interviews, artifact review, delivery data. You get a written read on the operating model, the team topology and the three things to fix first.
• Fractional CPO (ongoing). Two to three days a week inside the org: planning cadence, hiring support, executive alignment, and the decisions that need a senior owner.
• Interim leadership. A defined window — a departure, an acquisition, a launch — with a clean handoff to the permanent hire.

How it runs

• 1. Call. Thirty minutes on the situation. No deck.
• 2. Scope. A one-page plan: the problem, the access needed, the timeline, the fee.
• 3. Engagement. Weekly working sessions with the team, written decisions, no status theater.
• 4. Exit. Every engagement ends with the org able to run without it.

Evidence from operating seats

• Unified three Optum apps into one React Native platform for 13M members; roughly $5M a year off the run-rate and 40% faster feature delivery.
• Shipped an in-house Voice AI receptionist at Symplast to $1.2M ARR across 3,500+ practices, then led the migration that added 50% mobile capacity.
• Built AI load matching at Truckstop: +35% recommendation accuracy, −18% empty miles, $3.5M first-year revenue in the Spanish market.

Who this fits

Series A through D software companies, PE-backed platforms, and healthcare or SaaS businesses where product has become the bottleneck. Usually 15 to 150 people in product and engineering, with a founder or GM who wants a senior partner rather than a consultancy.

Who this does not fit

Companies looking for a slide deck, a 40-page maturity assessment, or someone to manage the roadmap by proxy. This is operating work with your team in the room.

Fees are retainer-based and scoped after the call. Advisory clients get first access to search capacity.