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Fractional · Interim

Product and engineering need leadership,
not always on payroll.

The firm provides fractional CPOs and CTOs: product and engineering executives who join your company with a temporary mandate, real authority and a defined outcome, part-time or full-time as the case requires. Without a year-long hiring process, and without marrying a profile before you know which one you need.

  • Fractional or full-time
  • Real authority
  • Defined outcome

When it makes sense

01 Technology transition The company has to remake its relationship with technology (platforms, team, AI) and nobody inside can lead the change without leaving their own post uncovered.
02 Team scaling Engineering or product grew faster than their structure: good people, erratic delivery, and nobody ordering roles, priorities and cadence.
03 Leadership gap The CTO or CPO left and the replacement search will take months, and the team cannot drift without direction meanwhile.
04 Before the agents You want to operate with AI but the operating model lives in heads: someone has to lead the work of making it explicit and governable.

“An operating model has to be led before it can be encoded.”

How it fits with Arkatai

Two distinct services, one head. Arkatai runs processes with agents; interim leadership governs product and technology while the company changes. Whoever has led the design of the model is best placed to turn it into an agent-run operation, and the other way round.

What the mandate includes

01 Executive leadership Product and engineering under one head: team, roadmap, delivery and the technical decisions that touch the business.
02 Structure and hiring Which roles are missing, which are redundant, and how the permanent leadership gets filled if needed.
03 Technical governance Debt, platforms, vendors, and the judgment on what gets built, bought or contracted.
04 A defined exit The mandate ends with the structure working and, where relevant, the permanent hire on board.

Who leads the practice

The firm’s leadership

Every mandate is defined and supervised by the firm’s leadership: an executive currently serving as Chief Product & Technology Officer at a company with more than 100 people, with a background in fintech, solar engineering and automotive product, and a three-time founder. Execution is carried by the fractional CPO or CTO who fits your situation, held to the practice’s bar. The firm →

Tell us the situation (transition, scaling or a leadership gap) and the outcome you need. The first conversation defines the mandate and the profile who will execute it. Then we decide whether we fit.

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