Services

Every service, spelled out.

No vague "product excellence transformation" language. Here's exactly what each service is, when you need it, and what lands in your inbox at the end.

Outsourced Product Manager

Our flagship. A senior product manager on your team, billed by the hour, for whatever the week throws at you. No fixed deliverable required, no minimum commitment - product thinking on tap. Most clients start here with a handful of hours and scale up when they see what it changes.

Typical asks

  • Backlog triage and ruthless prioritization
  • Roadmap review before a board meeting
  • Running a discovery sprint end to end
  • Writing specs your engineers won't hate
  • Sitting in on planning as the outside voice
  • A second opinion on a hard product call

How it feels

Like having a Head of Product in the next room - except you only pay for the hours you actually use. Async by default, on calls when it matters. Every hour is logged and itemized, so you always know where the time went.

Hourly Start within days Scale up or down anytime Weekly hour reports

Idea & opportunity validation

Before you invest a year of runway: is the problem real, who has it, and is it painful enough to pay for? We identify the riskiest assumptions behind your idea and test them first - so the cheapest possible experiment kills or confirms the plan.

What we test

  • Problem existence: do people actually have it?
  • Problem intensity: painkiller or vitamin?
  • Willingness to pay - with real signals
  • Your wedge vs. existing alternatives
  • The one assumption that sinks everything

What you get

An opportunity map with evidence for each claim: interview quotes, demand signals, competitor gaps. And a straight verdict - go, pivot, or don't - with the reasoning laid out so you can disagree with it intelligently.

2 weeks Fixed scope Part of Idea Check

Demand & market research

Market size, competitor teardowns, positioning gaps, pricing signals. Built from real data and real conversations - not a template report with your logo on it. The kind of research you can put in front of investors without flinching.

What goes in

  • Bottom-up market sizing you can defend
  • Competitor teardowns: product, pricing, positioning
  • User interviews with your actual segment
  • Demand signals: search, communities, spend
  • Positioning gaps nobody is claiming

What you get

A demand report answering three questions: where is the money, who else is after it, and what's your realistic wedge. Every number traced to its source.

1-3 weeks Fixed scope or hourly Investor-ready

Strengths & weaknesses audit

A full outside-in review of your live product: funnels, retention, pricing, positioning, onboarding. What's quietly working - protect it. What's quietly leaking - fix it first. Every finding numbered, severity-tagged, and traced to the evidence behind it.

What we examine

  • Acquisition-to-activation funnel, step by step
  • Retention mechanics and churn moments
  • Pricing page and packaging logic
  • Positioning vs. how users describe you
  • Analytics setup - are you even measuring it?

What you get

A scored audit report with a prioritized fix list - quick wins first, ranked by impact against effort. Presented live, defended finding by finding. See a sample →

3-4 weeks Fixed scope Core of Full Product Audit 30-day follow-up included

Design blind-spot review

Your team has used your product ten thousand times. That's exactly why they can't see it anymore. We walk it like a first-time user - slowly, skeptically, on a bad connection - and catch the friction nobody reports. Users don't file bugs about confusion. They just leave.

What we catch

  • Confusing flows your team stopped noticing
  • Missing empty, error and loading states
  • Copy that means nothing to a newcomer
  • Moments where users silently give up
  • Mobile and edge-case breakage

What you get

An annotated walkthrough of every gap - screenshots, severity, and the fix - ranked by impact on conversion and retention. Your designers get a punch list, not a lecture.

1-2 weeks Fixed scope or hourly Part of Full Product Audit

What we deliberately don't do: development, design production, or marketing services. We stay on the product-thinking side - so our advice is never a sales funnel for a bigger contract. You take it to any team you like, including your own.

Not sure which service fits?

That's normal - most clients aren't. Book the free intro call and we'll figure it out together, or take the three-question quiz on the home page.

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