Three mandates. Three ownership modes.

Decide. Lead. Own.

Choose one independent decision, one named product or platform milestone, recurring Fractional CPO ownership, or time-bounded Interim Head of Product leadership. Each mandate stands alone.

How we engage

Choose by the ownership your situation needs now: resolve one decision, lead one evidence gate, or own recurring product decisions. Every mandate stands on its own; any sequence is a new, explicit choice—not a forced funnel.

  • Decision

    You need to decide what happens next.

    Product Decision Review

    Independent senior product expert

    Make one consequential product decision with evidence.

    Hyperion owns
    The independent assessment across the six lenses, the recommendation and the reasoning behind it.
    What you receive
    An executive decision memorandum, evidence and risk map, and a prioritised 90-day plan: go, redirect, sequence or stop.
    Duration
    Two to three weeks.
    Scoped quoteExplore the Product Decision Review

  • Milestone

    You need a senior owner for the next product milestone.

    Product Leadership Mission

    Senior / Principal Product Lead

    Lead one product, platform, product family or launch to a named evidence gate.

    Hyperion owns
    The milestone, cross-functional decisions and only the targeted hands-on work agreed in scope.
    What you receive
    Decision records, acceptance evidence, agreed product or technical artefacts, operating documentation and handover.
    Duration
    Milestone-based, with scope and acceptance criteria agreed in writing.
    Scoped quoteExplore the Product Leadership Mission

  • Ongoing leadership

    Product leadership is needed now; a permanent executive is not yet in place.

    Executive Product Leadership

    Fractional CPO · Interim Head of Product

    Executive ownership across strategy, discovery, development, launch, portfolio and transition.

    Hyperion owns
    Product direction, priorities, decision cadence and cross-functional alignment within an explicit executive mandate.
    What you receive
    A coherent product and portfolio roadmap, measurable gates, leadership for the team, and a planned transfer or permanent-role brief.
    Duration
    Fractional CPO or Interim Head of Product; authority, cadence and capacity agreed in writing.
    Scoped quoteExplore the Executive Product Leadership

One Product Bridge Contract · three mandate boundaries

Every engagement reconnects the decision. None invents a fourth offer.

The mandate is selected by the unresolved decision and the authority required—not by a compulsory consulting ladder. Each one states the two-way translation, delivery boundary and exit before work starts.

  1. decide

    Physical AI Product Decision Review

    Buyer problem
    Business, customer and technical teams hold different versions of the product decision, and the next investment or commitment is due.
    Two-way product bridge
    Reconciles customer value, economics and portfolio intent with feasibility, architecture, risk and field evidence in one Product Bridge Brief and decision memorandum.
    Delivery boundary
    Hyperion investigates, integrates the evidence and recommends; the review excludes software implementation and model development, and the client retains the decision.
    Exit condition
    A named client owner receives the decision dossier, recommendation, dissent, reversal conditions and prioritised 90-day commitments.

  2. lead

    Physical AI Product Leadership Mission

    Buyer problem
    The direction is sufficiently clear, but product, engineering, integration, assurance and business work are not converging on one evidence-backed milestone.
    Two-way product bridge
    Turns the product promise and economics into a development mission and acceptance evidence, then returns implementation and field learning to scope and executive commitments.
    Delivery boundary
    Hyperion leads the critical path and may build bounded product-critical parts agreed in scope; client delivery teams and specialist authorities remain necessary, and the mandate is not a staffing bench.
    Exit condition
    The named gate is decided—or evidence shows it cannot close—and code, records, acceptance evidence, runbooks and operating knowledge transfer to the client team.

  3. own

    Executive Product Leadership for Physical AI

    Buyer problem
    Recurring product, technology and portfolio decisions are split across functions or waiting on a founder, CTO or vacant product-leadership seat.
    Two-way product bridge
    Runs a two-way cadence from strategy and funding to product and development missions, then from delivery and field evidence back to portfolio, economics and customer commitments.
    Delivery boundary
    Hyperion carries the written executive product authority and can lead bounded interventions; the client retains delivery teams, budgets, employment decisions and specialist accountabilities.
    Exit condition
    An internal successor can operate the decision system, cadence and records; each checkpoint explicitly renews, revises, hands over or stops the mandate.

Start with the smallest useful mandate.

Every engagement has a written decision, evidence gate, authority boundary, stop condition and handover owner. None requires a follow-on engagement.

Cross-cutting practice

One transformation. Three ways to engage.

Hardware defines the operating envelope. Software lets the product evolve. AI can change perception and decisions—but only inside evidenced boundaries.

Software-Defined Product Transformation is delivered through the same three mandates—not as a separate fourth offer.

  • Engagement

    Product Decision Review

    Software-defined mandate

    Choose the responsible target state, expose the consequential product and architecture decisions, and recommend commit, redirect or stop.

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  • Engagement

    Product Leadership Mission

    Software-defined mandate

    Lead the selected product, platform and operating-model transition to its next evidence-backed gate.

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  • Engagement

    Executive Product Leadership

    Software-defined mandate

    Hold recurring product and architecture ownership across releases, variants, field evidence and organizational decisions.

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Applied AI inside the mandate

SLMs, RAG and datasets are product decisions before they are build tasks.

The same three mandates can carry a model, knowledge or evaluation decision. Hyperion starts with the least-complex system that can meet the acceptance bar.

  • Before architecture hardens

    Product Decision Review

    Decision to make

    Choose rules or search, an existing model, governed RAG, fine-tuning or a task-specific SLM against explicit constraints.

    Evidence at the gate

    Decision memorandum, system boundary, evaluation plan, economics and stop criteria.

  • When a vertical slice must become real

    Product Leadership Mission

    Decision to make

    Deliver only the scoped model, knowledge, data and integration work needed to reach the named milestone.

    Evidence at the gate

    Reference architecture, dataset and evaluation artefacts, tested vertical slice, threat model and handover.

  • When the product needs continuing ownership

    Executive Product Leadership

    Decision to make

    Govern architecture, data, model behaviour, knowledge freshness, incidents and learning as one product lifecycle.

    Evidence at the gate

    Decision cadence, architecture records, operating measures, change control and capability transfer.

Hyperion leads the product, architecture, dataset, evaluation and production decisions. Implementation ownership is explicitly scoped and may combine direct Hyperion engineering with qualified delivery partners.

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How a mandate starts, changes or stops

The same operating contract governs all three.

Written scope
What is in, what is out, and the evidence that closes it — agreed before any work starts.
Decision rights
Which calls are mine inside the mandate and which stay yours. Named explicitly, never assumed.
An end
Every mandate has a checkpoint and exit condition. It stops, hands over, or is deliberately re-scoped—never allowed to drift.
Portrait of Mohammed Cherifi, founder of Hyperion Consulting

One person is accountable

There is no bench and no handoff to a junior team. Whoever scopes the mandate does the work and answers for it.

Delivery & Trust

Not sure which mandate fits?

Describe the product, the blocked decision, its deadline, the executive sponsor and the evidence currently available. Mohammed will tell you whether Hyperion is the right mandate—and when it is not.

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