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Fractional product & AI leadership.
An interim CPO, CTO, or head of AI, embedded in your team on retainer. Senior judgment and an operator’s bias for shipping, without the full-time hire.
What we take on.
Product leadership
Roadmap, prioritization, and release discipline owned end to end, with your team doing the building.
Technical leadership
Architecture direction, engineering standards, and the platform and vendor decisions someone has to be accountable for.
AI direction
An AI strategy scoped to what your data, team, and budget can actually support, then executed feature by feature.
Hiring
Role definitions, technical interviews, and offer calibration for the product and engineering seats you need next.
Investor and board communication
Honest reporting on velocity, risk, and what the money is buying, in language a board can act on.
Delivery rescue
When a roadmap has slipped for two quarters, we find out why and fix the system, not just the symptoms.
How it runs.
Engagement shape
A retainer with a fixed number of days per week and agreed outcomes, reviewed quarterly.
Inside your tools
Your channels, your standups, your repositories. We embed in the team rather than running a parallel process.
We still build
Advice comes from operating our own products, and we drop to the keyboard when showing is faster than telling.
Built-in exit
The goal is to hire our replacement. When the time comes, we help you find and onboard the full-time leader.
Is this the right service?
A good fit if
- You have engineers but no senior product or technical leadership
- You are adding AI and nobody internally owns it
- You need a technical counterpart for a fundraise or major deal
- Your roadmap keeps slipping and nobody can say why
Not a fit if
- You need a full-time, on-site executive
- You want a figurehead CTO for a pitch deck
- You have no engineering team yet; start with a product build instead
Have something worth building?
Tell us what you are trying to ship. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right team for it.
or write to hello@newxp.co