Fractional Product Lead

Fractional Product Lead puts a senior product lead inside your team. You get answers in your own channel within hours, a weekly sync or written report, and engineering hours to keep shipping. We also turn the technical numbers into business numbers for your leadership team.

$7,500a month

Term: 3-month commitment, no onboarding fee
Answers: Within 4 business hours
Engineering: 15 hours a month, banked 60 days (up to 30)
Cadence: Weekly 30-minute video sync, or a weekly written progress report

It's for you if

Your software is central to how you make money
Your team needs answers within hours, in the channel it already uses
Leadership, investors, or a board need the technical picture in business terms

It's not for you if

You don't need someone involved every week. Strategic Partner meets every two weeks for less.
You need one system built, not a lead every week. A Fixed-Scope Build covers that, at a fixed price.

What's included

Slack or Teams plus a direct line, answered within 4 business hours
Platform protection. AI output checked every week, connectors kept working, and permissions reviewed every month.
Executive and board reporting. Technical numbers turned into business numbers for your leadership team, investors, or board.
Team alignment. We work with your marketing, sales, and operations leads, so releases line up with launches.
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. This is engineering readiness work. It is not a certification, an audit, or legal or compliance advice.
Research and proofs of concept. New AI capabilities and automations tried in a sandbox before you commit to them.
Engineering hours. To ship custom modules, multi-step integrations, and database improvements.

What we need from you

The weekly sync, or 15 minutes to read the weekly report
Your marketing, sales, and operations leads, when a release touches their work
Access to your team channel and the systems we look after

Your first three months

Month 1 · Get in: Access to your team channel and systems, the first weekly syncs, and the first AI output checks.
Month 2 · Settle in: The first board-ready KPI report, release plans shared with your other teams, and the access-control design started.
Month 3 · Look ahead: The first sandbox tests reported, the monthly permission review, and the next quarter's roadmap.

Clients on this tier

Campbell Tax & Accounting: We built Firm Ops, one client portal for documents, milestones and advice that replaced seven tools. Onboarding fell from 11 days to 1.5, and staff sign in once instead of seven times.
Acuity Senior Advisors: As Acuity's fractional product lead, we bring AI expertise to healthcare and a data-driven approach to transitional care for older adults and anyone who needs extra care. A vetted family shortlist now takes under 4 hours, not 3–4 days of phone tag.
Tarlis: As Tarlis's fractional product lead, we coach and advise on AI strategy and how to approach it.

The terms

Full refund within 3 days of your tier's first payment, even if you started with a Diagnostic. After that the work has started, and the 3-month term stands.
Had an AI Operations Diagnostic? The full $1,000 you paid for the Diagnostic comes off your first month if you submit the pre-work within 48 hours of booking, attend both live sessions, and start a Partnership Tier's 3-month term within 30 days of the readout.
A tier renews for another 3 months at the same price unless you give notice before the term ends. Step up anytime. Step down, pause, or stop at the end of a term, with 30 days' notice.
Extra hours are $350/hour beyond your tier's hours, agreed in writing before the work.
Something bigger to build is a Fixed-Scope Build at a fixed price, or a Module for a small overage, alongside your tier. Builds are priced in full.
Licenses, AI usage, and hosting are billed to you directly.
A Partnership Tier doesn't host your software: if we host it, keep Synergy Care alongside your tier, and your tier's hours replace Synergy Evolve's.