The question is how much help you need to fix it.
There are two ways to work with me. Start with the conversation that fits where you are.
You bring the problem. I bring forty-plus products of commercialization experience across telecom, cloud, and medical devices, including eight years inside Galen Robotics, from Johns Hopkins prototype to FDA De Novo clearance. We work through what you're facing and you leave with a clear sense of what needs to happen next, and whether working together longer makes sense.
This is not a sales call. You pay for my time and you get my full attention. After the call I send homework, and I follow up while you work through it.
$500
One hour plus follow-up. Booked and paid in advance.
Working sessions point naturally toward the six-month Fractional CPO engagement for companies ready to commit to sustained work.
A six-month minimum engagement for funded founders who need senior product leadership inside the company, not advice thrown over the wall.
I join your team one to two days a week, about ten hours, and run the product function: roadmap, priorities, product and market definition, risk discipline, and the commercial story that carries your next round. We move through the five topics below in the right sequence for where your product is.
Your team does the work with me and learns the method as we go, drawing on forty-plus products commercialized across telecom, cloud, and medical devices, including the FDA De Novo clearance I helped lead at Galen Robotics. When the engagement ends, the structure belongs to them. That's the point.
Back to first principles. Intended use. User needs. Indications. System boundaries. Decide what the product actually is, and let everything else flow from that decision. Your team owns it.
Bridge the gap between prototype and shippable. Manufacturing readiness. Supplier strategy. Design-for-manufacturability. IP coverage. The path from one working unit to a product that scales.
ISO 14971-aligned risk management and design controls installed early, as discipline rather than paperwork. Regulatory strategy defined: 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or your industry's equivalent. For MedTech founders, strategic roadmapping that uses a simpler first filing as a predicate for richer ones to follow.
User needs and risks translated into clear engineering requirements, traceable all the way through to your test plan. The connective tissue that survives regulatory review and investor diligence.
Align the commercial story with the technical and regulatory reality. Position the product so it can be sold, funded, and scaled, not just cleared. A development story that holds up in the boardroom the way it holds up in a submission.
By the end of six months, your company has a clear, actionable plan to reach your next real gate. For medical devices, that means a defined path through FDA and to market. For other regulated or safety-critical hardware, the equivalent certification and market path. For everything else, first revenue and the next funding milestone. If you don't have that plan, I keep working with you at no additional cost until you do. One condition: your team shows up and does the work.
$10,000 to $25,000 /month
Six-month minimum commitment. Price varies by company stage and scope.
You're building a real product with real consequences: medical devices, surgical robotics, diagnostics, defense hardware, climate hardware, industrial robotics, physical-AI, connected devices, or consumer hardware where safety and reliability decide whether it sells.
You have a working prototype.
You have funding. You have a team.
You're serious enough about getting to market that you're willing to invest real money in getting the structure right.
I work with a small number of companies at a time, by design. The work needs full attention, and the advice only stays honest when I'm not overextended. If that lines up with where you are, apply below.