Fractional Product Lead

1 · The deliverables

What you get, one by one

1. Platform protection

   AI output checked every week, connectors kept working, and permissions reviewed every month.

   Every week we check your AI features' output against real examples. Connectors are kept working as the APIs behind them change, and every month we review who and what can access each system.

   You receive: Weekly AI output checks and a monthly permission review.

2. Executive and board reporting

   Technical numbers turned into business numbers for your leadership team, investors, or board.

   We translate system metrics into the business numbers leadership asks about, such as cost per transaction, feature adoption, and the return on what you spend on infrastructure.

   You receive: KPI reporting your leadership team or board can read.

3. Team alignment

   We work with your marketing, sales, and operations leads, so releases line up with launches.

   We work directly with the people who run marketing, sales, and operations, so each release lands with its go-to-market launch and fits how your teams already work.

   You receive: Release plans your other teams have seen before launch day.

4. Security and compliance readiness

   Help with enterprise security questionnaires, and an architecture shaped around SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR requirements, with role-based access designed in.

   We shape your architecture for the security questionnaires enterprise clients send, align it with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR requirements, and design role-based access control. This is engineering readiness work. It is not a certification, an audit, or legal or compliance advice.

   You receive: Questionnaire answers and an access-control design.

5. Research and proofs of concept

   New AI capabilities and automations tried in a sandbox before you commit to them.

   We keep testing new AI capabilities and workflow automations in sandbox environments, away from your live system, so you can adopt what works early and skip what doesn't.

   You receive: A short write-up of each test, with a recommendation.

6. Engineering time

   To ship custom modules, multi-step integrations, and database improvements.

   Hands-on engineering for custom modules, integrations that run across several systems, and improvements to your core database.

   You receive: Engineering from your monthly capacity.

4 · How it starts

Every tier starts with the $499 Diagnostic

The AI Operations Diagnostic is one week on one workflow, documents only: we map it, measure it, and write the scope for the first fix. Nothing is built that week. Its readout tells you whether this tier fits, or that you don't need one. Seven documents, in writing, covered by the All-Seven Guarantee.

You get $1,000 off your first month, the full $499 you paid for the Diagnostic, plus $501 from us, when you:

1. Submit the pre-work within 48 hours of booking
2. Attend both live sessions
3. Start a Foundation tier's 3-month term within 30 days of the readout

5 · The terms, in plain words

The fine print

Term

3-month commitment. No month-to-month option, and no onboarding fee.

Refunds

Full refund within 3 days of your first payment. After that the work has started, and the 3-month term stands.

Best for

Companies where the software runs the business, and leadership wants a product lead involved every week.

Capacity

Limited to a few clients at a time.

Unused hours

Included dev hours bank for 60 days, up to 30 hours.

Extra hours

$350/hour outside a Build Add-On, agreed in writing before the work.

Build Add-Ons

Month-to-month, on top of an active Foundation tier. Turn one on, change its size, or pause it from one month to the next. Its hours are planned against the scoped build and don't roll over.

Third-party costs

Licenses, AI usage, and hosting are billed to you directly.

Ownership

Accounts and credentials are held in your business's name. Ownership terms for code and reusable components are set in your written agreement.

Changing plans

Step up anytime. Step down or pause at the end of a 3-month term, with 30 days' notice.