Services

Four rungs. One ladder.

You can buy a diagnosis, a decision, an owner, or a leader. Those are genuinely different purchases, and buying the wrong one is the most common way product money gets wasted.

Start at the lowest rung that answers your actual question. Most teams begin with an audit or a discovery sprint, then move up once the value is obvious. Nobody is asked to commit to leadership scope on day one.

01Fixed scope · 2–3 weeks

Product audit

A written diagnosis of the product, the backlog, and the way you decide.

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A structured review of your product, backlog, metrics, and delivery process, run by a senior product manager rather than a template. You get a written findings report with severity ranking, a prioritised list of fixes, and a 90-day plan you can execute with us or without us.

Best whenYou suspect the problem is how decisions get made, not how fast the team codes.

What you get

  • Findings report with severity ranking
  • Prioritised opportunity backlog
  • 90-day action plan owned by your team
  • One readout session with founders and engineering

How it ends

The report is yours on day one of delivery. There is nothing to hand off and no dependency created.

022 weeks · fixed scope

Discovery & roadmap sprint

Interviews, problem framing, and a roadmap your team actually agrees with.

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Customer interviews, problem framing, and option shaping that end in a sequenced roadmap the team can defend. Built for teams that have budget approved and engineering ready, but no shared view of what to build first.

Best whenThe budget is signed off and the argument about what to build is still running.

What you get

  • 8–12 customer or stakeholder interviews
  • Problem statements backed by evidence
  • Two-quarter roadmap with sequencing rationale
  • Success measures agreed before build starts

How it ends

Every artefact is in your tools, in your format, at the end of week two.

0310–15 hours per week · monthly

Fractional product manager

A named senior PM inside your team, owning the backlog like an employee.

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A senior product manager embedded in your team. Runs discovery, writes specs, grooms the backlog, and works directly with engineering and design. The same named person every week, in your Slack, your tracker, and your standups — not a rotating bench.

Best whenThere is real product work every week, but not enough to justify a full-time senior hire yet.

What you get

  • Owned backlog and release plan
  • Specs and acceptance criteria per feature
  • Weekly written status against agreed measures
  • Monthly metric review with founders

How it ends

A four-week overlap with your full-time hire, plus the documented product they inherit.

04Monthly · leadership scope

Fractional CPO & PM office

Product leadership at the executive table, and the operating model to outlast it.

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Product leadership where the decisions are made: strategy, portfolio prioritisation, hiring, and coaching your product managers. Includes standing up the PM office — intake, prioritisation, rituals, metric definitions — and running the search for your permanent product leader.

Best whenYou have two or more product teams and no product voice in the executive room.

What you get

  • Product strategy and operating model
  • PM competency framework and rituals
  • Portfolio prioritisation and quarterly planning
  • Hiring scorecard, interviews, and leader handoff

How it ends

We write the role, screen and interview candidates, then overlap with your permanent leader for four weeks.

How an engagement runs

From first message to a planned handoff

Four steps, and the last one is us leaving. Every engagement is designed to end with your own product manager in the seat and the knowledge written down.

  1. 01Within 48 hours of your first message

    Scoping call

    Forty-five minutes on your product, your team, and the decision you are stuck on. We tell you which rung of the ladder fits — including when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet.

  2. 02Within three working days

    Written proposal

    Scope, the named person, weekly hours, price, and the success measures we agree to be judged on. One page, fixed for the engagement term, sent before you commit to anything.

  3. 03Starts in 5–10 working days

    Embed and deliver

    Your PM joins your Slack, tracker, and standups and starts real work. Weekly written status, monthly review against the agreed measures, 30-day notice either way.

  4. 04Planned from day one

    Handoff and exit

    Every engagement has a written exit plan from day one. We help write the role, screen and interview candidates, then run a four-week overlap so your full-time PM inherits a documented product rather than a mystery.

The exit plan

We write the ending on day one

Every proposal contains an exit clause before it contains a price. It names the condition that ends the engagement — a full-time hire in the seat, a shipped outcome, a measure that refuses to move — and what you are holding on the last day.

You keep the documented strategy, the roadmap and its rationale, every spec, the metric dictionary, and the decision log. We help write the role, screen and interview candidates, and then overlap with your new product manager for four weeks while they take the wheel and we answer questions.

Notice is 30 days in both directions, from the first month. If a measure is not moving by the second monthly review, we change the plan or we end the engagement — that is written into the agreement, not left to a conversation.

This is the Transfer stage of the ORBIT Method, and it is the reason the other four are worth buying. Read the method →

Pick a rung

Not sure which one you need?

Describe the decision you are stuck on and we will tell you which rung fits — including when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet. Engagements start in 5–10 working days.

Scoping call within 48 hours · written proposal in three working days · no absolute rate quoted until we understand the scope.