Pricing

Two prices, published

A fractional CPO engagement with me is $4,950 a month for 25 hours, about six hours a week, three-month minimum, then month to month. A scoped consulting day is $1,200, no minimum. That is the whole price list. The rest of this page says what each contains and how the numbers compare with the market.

Fractional CPO

$4,950 / month

25 hours a month · about six a week · three-month minimum, then monthly

  • ✓Start in two to three weeks
  • ✓One-page engagement note, signed in a day
  • ✓You hold a veto on every product decision, always

PM consulting

$1,200 / day

Scoped up front · no minimum

  • ✓One product question, defined in writing before the day
  • ✓A written answer you can act on, plus a 30-minute readout
  • ✓Used for product strategy, product management, product launch and SaaS consulting engagements
Book a Product Strategy Session 30 minutes. No pitch, no deck.

What 25 hours a month contains

  • ✓Product strategy on one page, tied to ARR, activation and retention
  • ✓Quarterly roadmap rebuilt around outcomes, not feature requests
  • ✓A prioritization system your team runs without me in the room
  • ✓Weekly working sessions with the founder and the PM team
  • ✓Product metrics instrumented and reviewed, with a single source of truth
  • ✓Board and investor product narrative, written and defensible
  • ✓Discovery and validation practice installed before build, not after
  • ✓Role definition and candidate screening when you are ready for a permanent product leader
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How it compares

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Row Fractional CPO with me Full-time CPO Market benchmark
Monthly cost $4,950 $260,000 to $400,000 a year in base and cash, plus equity $5,750 median US retainer, 107 providers; CPO-only median $7,000, 12 providers
Time 25 hours a month, scheduled Five days a week Varies by provider
Start 2 to 3 weeks Up to eight months to hire Varies
Commitment Three-month minimum, then monthly Permanent hire, severance exposure Mostly monthly retainers

Market figures from the Fractional Rates Index v2.1.1 (2026), 1,774 providers tracked, 168 with a published price. Full-time figures are US base and cash for growth-stage SaaS. Hourly quotes exist too: the stated median across fractional executive roles is $200 an hour from 30 providers; most senior operators, including me, do not bill hourly.

The scoped day is $1,200: one day of one senior operator, plus the written answer.

Book a Product Strategy Session 30 minutes. No pitch, no deck.

Who this price is for

This fits a funded B2B SaaS between $2M and $15M ARR where the founder is still the de facto head of product: one or two product managers, no product executive above them, and a roadmap that is a list of customer requests.

It does not fit a company before product-market fit, a team that needs someone in the building five days a week, or a founder who wants delivery tickets run rather than product strategy owned. If that is you, the call will say so in the first ten minutes.

The day fits a company that has one decision stuck, not a seat to fill: a pricing change, a roadmap that will not close, a launch with no owner. If the day turns into a seat, the day’s fee comes off the first month.

Questions about the price

The first month is reading: backlog, customer calls, metrics. The second is the rebuilt roadmap. The third is the first quarter run on it. Anything shorter measures nothing, so I do not sell it.
No. The 30-minute call is the test. You leave it with one decision clearer than when you came, whether or not we work together.
Wider scope or more days a week. I say which before you book, not after. The published price is for the standard 25-hour engagement.
I hold the pen on roadmap prioritization and on what enters the quarter. You hold a veto, always. A veto used once a quarter is healthy. A veto used weekly means one of us is wrong about something basic, and we have that conversation in month one rather than month three.
No. Hourly billing prices the time, not the outcome. The retainer buys ownership of the product decisions for the month.
Yes. Most seats start that way. The day is scoped in writing, you get the written answer, and if we continue, $1,200 comes off the first month of the retainer.
Ongoing ownership. A day answers one question; it does not run your roadmap the week after. That is what the seat is for.

Bring the decision you are stuck on

You get a senior read on your roadmap and your retention number.

Book a Product Strategy Session 30 minutes. No pitch, no deck.