Three mandates. Three ownership modes.
Choose one bounded decision, one named product milestone or embedded ongoing product leadership. Each engagement stands alone.
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.
Make one consequential product decision with evidence.
Milestone
You need a senior owner for the next product milestone.
Lead one product to a named evidence gate.
Ongoing leadership
You need senior product leadership now, but not yet a permanent executive.
Fractional CPO for Physical AI
Embedded product and portfolio leadership across strategy, discovery, productization, launch and scale.
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
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
Software-defined mandate
Choose the responsible target state, expose the consequential product and architecture decisions, and recommend commit, redirect or stop.
Engagement
Software-defined mandate
Lead the selected product, platform and operating-model transition to its next evidence-backed gate.
Engagement
Software-defined mandate
Hold recurring product and architecture ownership across releases, variants, field evidence and organizational decisions.
Applied AI inside the mandate
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
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
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
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.
The same operating contract governs all three.
There is no bench and no handoff to a junior team. Whoever scopes the mandate does the work and answers for it.
Start with a 30-minute fit call. We will tell you which one — if any — is the right next step.