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Advice or a product leadership role

What help do you need?

Advice while your leaders stay in charge, or an agreed leadership role for an initiative or your product function. In every case, I help you make decisions.

Ways to engage

The difference is the responsibility you want me to take. I can advise your existing leaders, lead a named initiative, or take on an agreed role across your product function.

  • Advice

    A launch, platform, architecture or investment decision is unresolved, with a named decision owner and a deadline.

    Get product advice

    Product Decision Review

    Test your options and decide what deserves your time and investment.

    My role and your responsibility
    I assess options and recommend a way forward. Your leaders keep decisions and delivery.
    What do we receive?
    A decision memorandum with a recommendation to go, redirect, sequence or stop; the evidence and risk map behind it; the questions that remain open; a 90-day plan with named actions and owners; and one executive readout.
    What must our team provide?
    An executive sponsor, access to existing technical and commercial documents, up to five interviewees, one workshop and one executive readout.
    What is the commitment?
    Two to three weeks. The base scope is one decision, one organisation, one technical environment, up to five interviews and one workshop, delivered remotely. Anything beyond it is quoted before it starts.
    Price of the Decision Review
    Typically €12,000–€18,000, scoped in writing after a 30-minute fit call.
    Explore the Product Decision Review

    Ongoing product advice

    Ongoing advice gives you an independent view on product choices, priorities and trade-offs, with practical next steps. Your leaders keep decision authority and delivery. Scope, outputs, cadence and fees are agreed separately.

    Discuss ongoing product advice
  • Initiative leadership

    Yes, if you need a senior product lead to clarify the direction or move an initiative forward.

    Lead a product initiative

    Product Leadership Mission

    Senior / Principal Product Lead

    Move from an unresolved product question to an agreed milestone and handover.

    My role and your responsibility
    I lead discovery, product decisions and agreed delivery coordination. Your sponsor retains company authority; delivery capacity is agreed in scope.
    What do we receive?
    A named milestone with acceptance criteria, a prioritised plan, a decision log, evidence against the criteria and handover notes.
    What must our team provide?
    An executive sponsor, access to technical and commercial evidence, delivery capacity and the operational owner and users needed for acceptance.
    What is the commitment?
    The Mission is milestone-scoped rather than time-boxed: it runs until the named gate is closed, or until the evidence says it cannot be. Mandates are typically agreed against a horizon of one quarter and reviewed at each milestone. The minimum useful unit is one product, platform or workflow, one evidence gate and one acceptance bar.
  • Product leadership

    You need senior product leadership without making a permanent hire now.

    Lead your product function

    Executive Product Leadership

    Fractional CPO · Interim Head of Product

    Give your product function clear priorities and day-to-day leadership.

    My role and your responsibility
    I take on the agreed product leadership responsibilities and decision rights. Your company retains authority beyond that role.
    What do we receive?
    A written mandate with decision rights, product priorities and roadmap, a decision log, and a transition plan naming the next owner.
    What must our team provide?
    An executive sponsor, written decision rights and agreed access to your people, systems and budget.
    What is the commitment?
    The role is deliberately non-permanent. Days per month, decision rights and the working cadence are agreed in writing before the role begins. A written checkpoint decides whether to renew, revise, hand over or stop. The mandate names a single executive sponsor, an initial operating horizon, a days-per-month cadence and an explicit authority boundary.
    Price
    From approximately €8,000/month, depending on scope and operating intensity — the engagement is shaped to your portfolio
    Explore Executive Product Leadership

Start with the help you need.

You can start with any option. A Decision Review is never a prerequisite. Scope, responsibilities and fees are agreed before work starts.

Product development and industrial operations

Are you developing a product or changing an operation?

These situations involve different users, decisions and responsibilities. Choose the context closest to your work. Advice or initiative leadership can be scoped for either; a product-function role requires an explicit leadership mandate.

  • Physical AI

    You are developing a connected or intelligent product.

    For founders and product leaders developing connected or software-defined products and platforms, robots or intelligent equipment. Clarify customer value, roadmap choices and the work needed for launch.

  • Industrial AI

    You are improving a workflow in your own business.

    For operations leaders and industrial business owners working on maintenance, quality, technical service or planning. Start with one workflow, its users and the owner of adoption. AI may or may not be the answer.

  • Software-defined transformation

    Change how a physical product evolves through software.

    Product and platform roadmaps, release and update recovery, variant control and the product operating model for vehicles, machines and charging equipment. AI is not required.

Help choosing an engagement

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

I lead each engagement directly and remain accountable for the agreed mandate. Specialist partners may contribute to clearly defined work when needed, with their role disclosed.

Not sure which mandate fits?

Tell me what you want to achieve, what is blocking progress and when you need help. A few sentences are enough.