We partner with visionary founders & CEOs to unlock scale and performance in data- and AI-enabled businesses.
We offer strategic governance, board advisory, and fractional CPO services across three pillars:
What We Do
Three Pillars of Partnership
AI & Frontier Product Strategy
From 0 → 1 experimentation to product-market fit, we advise on product management, product-led growth, business models, pricing, packaging, and distribution
Investment & Portfolio Growth
We guide global expansion, partnerships strategy, product planning & prioritization, and portfolio strategy to drive sustainable growth
Business Operations Scaling
We help design and evolve operating models, systems, and tools to improve speed, consistency, and efficiency
Our team brings deep expertise in product, platform, and ecosystem strategy, paired with global go-to-market, product management, OKR operationalization, and executive coaching to help companies achieve hyperscale while navigating inflection points.
Who We Partner With
Built for Ambitious Leaders
Company profile
AI-native, SaaS, or services companies with $5M+ ARR (typically Series B and beyond).
What you're focused on:
- Driving growth and efficiency at the same time
- PM, Eng, GTM, and Ops teams are in place, but need focus and alignment
- Looking for experienced product or ops leadership to coach your team and raise the bar
- Not ready for a full-time CPO/COO or looking to experiment in a new product area without pulling focus from the core
Who we work with: Founder/CEO or senior leadership team
Founder/CEO-level challenges we help with
From one to many
Your core product is growing, but you need to build new revenue streams that will compete for budget, resources, and attention
Business model and new bets
Pricing is changing, new revenue lines are emerging, international is on the table, but you need clarity before moving
Growing pains
Work slows down, roles blur, teams drift. Strategy feels lost in translation
Burn rate and efficiency
Need to accelerate path to profitability to reinvest, fundraise, or make better tradeoffs
Why Partner With Us
Proven Leadership Experience
20+ years navigating ambiguous tradeoffs at different stages of growth
Operated as a CPO, COO, and strategy advisor at iconic AI and data-first companies including Google, Nest, Waze, and Southwest Airlines
Built products and led strategy in Google's most critical revenue areas (Search Ads, Android)
Background in product and engineering at Raytheon Space and Motorola
Blend of technical depth and business judgement:
- P&L owner of a $100M-200M budget at Google
- AI and Data Strategy and M&A Leader at McKinsey & Company
- MIT-trained in both Computer Science and Business (MS EECS + MBA)
- Active investor and advisor: Operator Collective, Lightspeed, Invested Development, Cohere, Lambda Labs, Midi Health, Syrup Tech and others
Track Record
We've helped founders solve the same challenges you're facing now
0 → 1 and 1 → 100
- Launched Apple/Google Covid-19 Exposure Notifications from zero to 100M users in under a year (as Product Growth, Strategy, and GTM Partnerships Lead)
- Incubated a B2B marketplace at Google and helped close two internal funding rounds
Building AI features that customers actually use
- Expanded Google's AI assistant strategy to 900M+ users in Asia and Latin America
- Launched two AI/automation products adopted into a $250B government program
- Launched AI messaging features and reduced spam and abuse
Making hard pivots
- Drove pivots that unlocked 50% efficiency—led P&L review, PMF assessment, competitive analysis, re-focused North Star metrics, and targets
- Killed low-impact low-ROI projects and turned team around to a few big bets
- Helped refine a multi-billion-dollar business model, mitigating $XXXM revenue risk
Growing sustainably
- Launched Google's first monetized business messaging product and scaled the platform to 20M+ businesses, with 200% engagement growth and millions in new revenue and savings
Making operations work at scale
- Built OKR systems and operating models across global product and GTM teams
- Led data privacy and retention reforms post-Cambridge Analytica and shaped policies impacting 3M+ Android apps and 2B+ Gmail users
- At McKinsey, led a $40B digital transformation for a U.S. state government
We are hands-on, scrappy, and laser-focused on solving problems. We bring clarity, speed, and seasoned perspective to help you navigate what's next
How to Engage
How to engage with us
Fractional
- 40 hours per month (min. 1 month)
- Unlimited async communication (emails, messages, document reviews)
Advisory
- 1 hr a week (min. 4 hours)
- Unlimited async communication
- Flexible use: brainstorming, working sessions, coaching, or sounding board
Get in Touch
Interested? Let's chat.
We're passionate about helping others succeed and look around corners. Excited to connect!