Fractional CPO · from $12,000/mo
Most fractional CPOs advise. I build.
A fractional Chief Product Officer who sets product direction, designs the product, and ships the production code — embedded in your team, at your cadence.
One person, three jobs
01
Direction
Owns product strategy and roadmap with you — what to build, what to kill, what order. Board-ready, investor-legible.
02
Design
Doesn't hand the strategy to a design team. Designs the product personally — UX, UI, and the brand it lives in.
03
Code
Ships the production front-end (Next.js, React Native). The roadmap, the design, and the build never drift apart, because they're one person.
Advice vs. shipped
Proof, not promises
Every claim below links to a written case study you can read before we ever talk.
Apstra → Juniper Networks
Feature design across the platform
Six shipped feature case studies — from Day-0 network design to closed-loop assurance and intent-aware rollback. The redesigned Blueprints workflow cut deployment time 90% and made onboarding self-serve; Juniper acquired the company for $450M.
Read the Blueprints case study→ILTY
0→1 — strategy, design, and code
An AI mental-health companion taken from concept to shipped product: 5 AI personalities, a native iOS app, a 226-page marketing site, and the admin dashboard behind it — one person, end to end.
Read the ILTY case study→20 years, 200+ projects
Startups to enterprise
Booking.com, Marriott Edition, Hard Rock, and Loews on the brand side; venture-backed startups on the product side. 90+ industry awards along the way — and the code still ships from the same chair.
More on the track record→When to hire a fractional CPO
The signals
- You're funded, every product decision lands on the founder, and the founder is out of bandwidth
- The roadmap changes weekly because nobody owns the why
- Design and engineering ship on time, but what ships doesn't move the metric
- You're re-platforming or going 0-to-1 and can't afford a wrong first architecture
- A full-time CPO — $250K–$400K plus equity — doesn't make sense at your stage
Not yet
- Pre-idea, nothing to own yet — a $200 strategy call is the right first step
- You already own direction and need pure execution — that's the Design Partner plan
Shipping from week one
No 90-day ramp. Every track runs in parallel from day one — and working software lands in days, not quarters.
~10 days
to your first shipped, production-grade slice
Direction
Audit, roadmap, and the one metric that decides — agreed in writing in week one.
Shipping
The highest-leverage slice, coded to production — then a shipped increment every week.
Team & hiring
Standups, roadmap reviews, and hiring or vendor calls — handled as they surface.
Three tracks, one operator, all running at once — not a sequence of phases.
Questions, answered
A fractional Chief Product Officer is a senior product leader who owns product strategy for your company part-time — typically 2–3 days a week — at a fraction of the $250,000–$400,000+ cost of a full-time hire. They set direction, own the roadmap, and are accountable for what gets built. With SUUR the definition goes one step further: the same person also designs the product and ships the production code.
From $12,000/month with SUUR, month-to-month, quarterly, or annual. A full-time CPO costs $250,000–$400,000+ a year plus equity; most fractional CPOs charge $8,000–$20,000/month for advice alone. This one designs and ships the product too.
Design Partner ($6,500/mo) is execution: you set direction, I design and build it. Fractional CPO is ownership: I set product direction with you, then design and ship it. If you need someone accountable for what gets built — not just how it looks — this is the tier.
It's scoped to outcomes, not days. Typical engagements run 2–3 focused days a week embedded in your workflow — standups, roadmap reviews, and shipped work in between. Capacity is limited to a small number of concurrent clients by design.
Funded startups without a senior product leader, teams re-platforming or going 0-to-1 on a new product, and founders who need product direction that arrives as shipped software rather than advice.
No — I direct them and raise their ceiling. Strategy, priorities, and product design come from me; your team keeps shipping with clearer direction, and I write production front-end code where it moves the roadmap fastest. If you have no team yet, I'm also the team — that's the 0-to-1 case.
Week 1: audit of product, roadmap, and team. Week 2: direction agreed — what we ship first and why. Weeks 3–4: the first shippable slice, designed and coded. You see product, not a deck.
Hire your Fractional CPO
Tell me about your team and your roadmap. I'll personally review it and reach out within 24 hours.
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