Ongoing engagement · Fractional CPO

Fractional CPO (AI-first)

I lead product at quarter-time or half-time. In the first 30 days I install a continuous workflow that connects feedback, analytics and rapid prototypes to roadmap decisions. AI speeds up the analysis; every decision has an owner.

Who it’s for: For product companies with a development team that need senior product ownership, but not a full-time CPO.

Not for companies that want a list of ideas without access to users and data, or organizations where the roadmap has to carry every stakeholder request.

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capacity

quarter-time or half-time

start

3-month minimum

outcome

CPO decisions + faster AI-enabled discovery

price

€7,500–12,000 net / month

( 01 )

You have a roadmap. You still do not have a decision system.

Ideas arrive faster than the team can test them. Feedback sits in tickets and calls, analytics gets opened before the board meeting, and discovery ends in a document without a decision. You need one person to own product direction and build a cadence that turns data into decisions.

( 02 )

What you get

Product strategy, roadmap and priorities tied to company goals
A steady discovery → delivery → measurement cadence with a clear owner for every decision
A product metrics model covering activation, retention, revenue and service cost
Pricing and packaging decisions grounded in customer behaviour and product economics
An AI workflow: feedback and calls → synthesis → hypotheses → decision
Rapid prototypes before expensive development, with a verdict for every experiment
Evaluation of AI features on real cases before they enter the roadmap

( 03 )

How it runs

01Days 1–10We set CPO decision rights, baseline metrics, the current decision cadence and the data sources: analytics, feedback, tickets and customer calls.

02Days 11–30I install the AI-enabled discovery workflow on a real product area: continuous feedback synthesis, a decision template and rapid prototyping.

03Months 2–3I lead the roadmap and product cadence. We test the most important hypotheses, measure the result and close ideas that the data does not support.

( 04 )

When this role works

A fractional CPO needs:

a real mandate to set product priorities

access to analytics, feedback, tickets and customer calls

development and design teams willing to work from one cadence

an executive counterpart who can settle business goals

( 05 )

What exists after the first 90 days

After one quarter, the company has a working product decision system:

a product strategy and roadmap with data-backed reasoning

a continuous AI-enabled workflow from feedback through synthesis to decision

a prioritisation framework and a weekly review of the most important metrics

one or two prototypes with a verdict: scale, improve or close

( 06 )

Pricing

€7,500–12,000 net / month

Quarter-time · default€7,500 / monthAbout 10 hours a week: a fixed decision cadence, team work and async availability.

Half-time · one slot€12,000 / monthAbout 20 hours a week: deeper involvement in discovery, delivery, analytics and executive work.

3-month minimum; month-to-month afterwards
shared fractional capacity: two quarter-time engagements or one half-time engagement
current availability: both seats open (as of July 2026)
need sparring rather than decision ownership? — Advisory is the lighter option
the first 30 days include the AI-first workflow implementation — no separate sprint fee
no equity in the standard engagement

( 07 )

What’s next

After 90 days we make a simple call: continue month-to-month, reduce the scope to advisory, or hand the working system over to the team.

Need a CPO who builds an AI-enabled decision system?

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