ABOUT PRODUCTBEACON

The practice that installs and governs an AI workforce

Anyone can spin up AI agents. Almost no one can govern them. ProductBeacon exists to close that gap: we install a full AI workforce inside your business and give you the know-how to run it, or we run it for you. The same stack our founder runs his own companies on.

The person behind the practice

ProductBeacon was founded by Yohay Etsion, who spent 17 years building and leading product organizations at NICE and Cognyte, managing portfolios north of $200M and teams of 30+.

At NICE, Yohay led product management for enterprise security platforms serving Fortune 500 companies. At Cognyte (formerly Verint's cyber intelligence division), he ran the product organization through a public listing and beyond.

That experience revealed what works at scale: how to build product strategy that survives contact with reality, how to structure teams that ship consistently, and how to make decisions under pressure with incomplete information.

Today Yohay runs his own businesses on a governed AI workforce, and ProductBeacon installs and operates that same workforce for clients. The discipline of a real product organization, compressed into a stack one operator can command.

Credentials

Experience

17 years of enterprise product leadership

Companies

NICE · Cognyte

Scale

$200M+ product portfolios, 30+ person orgs

Education

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (BGU)
MBA Finance (TAU)

Location

Israel (remote + travel)

Why ProductBeacon exists

After nearly two decades inside large product organizations, a pattern became clear: companies need the output of a real organization, but the talent pool is thin, expensive, and slow to hire. Then AI agents arrived, and a different gap opened up.

Platforms will sell you agents all day long. None of them sell you the one thing that makes agents safe to use: the ability to govern what they produce. Which agent for which job, what to check before you trust it, where a human has to stay in the loop. That is the entire distance between "I have AI tools" and "I run an AI workforce."

ProductBeacon closes that distance two ways. The Operator Intensive installs the workforce inside your business in one day and hands you the know-how to govern it yourself. ProductBeacon On Call runs the workforce for you, the same practice, one stage on. Either way, you get a governed AI workforce, not a pile of agents and a guess.

And none of it is improvised. The operating method is written down: in the Vision to Value book and formalized in the Decision Provenance Standard. We run real businesses on it, our founder's own and our clients', before we ever hand it to you.

Published Author

Vision to Value

A Blueprint for Product Organizations.

"Vision to Value" distills 17 years of building and leading product organizations into a practical method for treating the product organization as a decision system. It is the written operating manual behind the AI workforce: how to put the right capability on the right job, govern the calls that matter, and turn intent into shipped value.

The method belongs to the practice, not to one person's memory. The same frameworks power every ProductBeacon engagement, alongside the Decision Provenance Standard for governing AI work.

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Vision to Value

by Yohay Etsion

A Blueprint for Product Organizations

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Open Source

Product Org OS

The AI operating system that powers every ProductBeacon engagement is open source.

96 specialists across 15 teams, 250 ready-made skills, and 120 knowledge libraries, all running the Vision to Value methodology across the entire product lifecycle. Built for real product work, refined through actual client engagements, available for product teams everywhere.

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Tell us what you are running

Intake is limited and by application. Tell us about your business and what you want the workforce to do. No pitch deck, no sales process.

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