Fractional CPO — supply chain & industrial software
A fractional CPO who installs the decision system behind your roadmap.
We embed a senior product lead directly inside supply-chain and industrial software teams — so customer proximity becomes a repeatable advantage, not a source of roadmap drift. Part-time commitment, full senior ownership.
01When a fractional CPO makes sense
The problem is not prioritisation effort. It is the absence of a decision system.
- Your biggest customers’ requests — not your own strategy — are quietly deciding what engineering builds next.
- Nobody can say, with evidence, why the last ten things got built, or whether they actually paid off.
- Sales, customer success, and engineering each look reasonable on their own and still produce a roadmap nobody chose.
- You know you need senior product leadership. A full-time Chief Product Officer feels premature for where you are.
02What changes in 90 days
Three changes, installed inside your team.
One intake.
Every request — customer, sales, support, leadership — goes through one visible list instead of five scattered channels.
One decision record.
Every approved request states what it costs, what it displaces, and how we’ll know in three and six months if it worked.
Protected capacity.
A fixed share of engineering time is ring-fenced by category so “just one more thing” stops eating the whole roadmap.
03The three tests
Nothing gets resourced until it passes all three.
- Strategy test
- Does this move us toward a market we’re actually trying to win, or is it a one-off favour for one account?
- Capacity test
- Does building this make our next ten builds easier, or does it just add one more thing to maintain forever?
- Value test
- Is there a real, named plan for someone to adopt or pay for this — or are we shipping it and hoping?
04How to start
Start with a free 60-minute diagnosis.
A no-obligation call to map how requests currently reach your roadmap and where the leverage is. If a fractional CPO engagement is the right next step, we’ll say so; if it isn’t, we’ll say that too.