Services
Part-time executive, full accountability.
I work with you two or three days a week and own a function, not just the meetings about it. It costs far less than a full-time hire.
Fractional CPO
Your product needs a leader. A part-time one is often enough.
Seed
You have a vision and early traction but no structured product thinking. I turn instinct into a plan you can defend.
Series A
Demand is proven but delivery is chaotic. I set up priorities, OKRs and a roadmap that the team, board and investors all trust.
Series B and beyond
You have PMs but no product leader. I build the function and hand it over cleanly to a permanent CPO.
What you get
- Strategy and roadmap
- A 12-month roadmap tied to your commercial goals, with a clear reason behind every priority.
- The product team
- Hiring, coaching and structure, from your first PM to several squads.
- Discovery
- Customer interviews, competitor and market work, and proof that a problem is real before anyone builds.
- Alignment
- Engineering, design, sales and customer success working from the same plan.
- Investors and board
- Monthly board packs, KPI dashboards and the product side of your fundraising story.
- AI in your product
- Where it helps users and where it only adds cost, with the ethical and regulatory side considered.
Regulated industries
Banking, health tech and care tech each have their own rules. I've led product at Funding Circle (FCA regulated) and at the Joy App, where we worked within ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and NHS IM1 requirements.
Fractional COO
Most startups hit the same wall. It isn't product or sales, it's operations. A full-time COO runs £120,000 to £180,000 a year, which rarely makes sense at seed or early Series A.
- Protecting your time
- I take the vendor issues, team problems, board communication, sprint governance and customer escalations, so you can do the work only you can do.
- Team and performance
- Hiring frameworks, onboarding, coaching rhythms, OKRs and performance management, so the team can run without you.
- Systems that scale
- Informal process usually breaks around 15 to 20 people. I put in delivery rhythms, backlog governance, release management and reporting.
- Strategic projects
- Multi-phase implementations and AI-powered product modules, owned from discovery to delivery as a direct report to you.
Both roles, one person
Product and operations are where scaling usually goes wrong. When one person owns both, engineering stops building the wrong thing, the roadmap reflects what the business can deliver, and you deal with one trusted number two instead of two.
Also
Digital transformation
Transformations fail when nobody owns them. I take on the programme itself: technology strategy, process redesign, platform modernisation and AI integration, until the new systems are actually in use.
UK and South Africa expansion
I was born in South Africa and have worked in London for years. If you're taking a South African company to the UK, or a UK one into South Africa, I can help with buyers, regulation, hiring and the enterprise relationships (I've worked with Standard Bank, for example).
Pricing
CPO and COO engagements each start from £3,000 a month. Taking both is priced as one engagement and costs less than two separate people.
The exact figure depends on your stage and how many days you need. We'll agree it on the first call.