HOW WE WORK

Three ways to work together

Every engagement is led personally by Yohay Etsion. The person who sells is the person who does the work. No junior analysts. No bait-and-switch.

Tier 1

Fractional Product Leadership

"Your CPO, fractionally."

Senior product leadership embedded in your organization on a fractional basis. AI-augmented delivery means this isn't limited to a few hours of advice per week. It's high-throughput leadership with real deliverables every week.

Engagement Details

Cadence: Ongoing embedded support

Duration: 3-12+ months

Structure: Monthly retainer, renewable quarterly

Key relationship: CEO / Board

What's Included

  • • Product vision, strategy, and roadmap ownership
  • • Product requirements and development guidance
  • • Board and investor product narrative
  • • Cross-functional alignment (product, engineering, design, sales)
  • • Product team mentoring and capability building
  • • Stakeholder management and executive communication
  • • Weekly deliverables: decision records, roadmap updates, strategic analyses
  • • AI-powered research, competitive intelligence, and document generation

Who It's For

Startups (Seed-B)

Founders acting as CPO who need to hand off product leadership to focus on the business

Scaleups (B-D)

Bridging a CPO gap during hiring or transition, when you can't afford months without product leadership

PE/VC Portfolio

Product leadership across portfolio investments without full-time headcount at each company

Established Companies

Interim product leadership during reorganization, M&A, or strategic pivots

Tier 2

Product Build

"From concept to launch."

End-to-end product delivery from initial concept through market launch. ProductBeacon delivers the product strategy, requirements, design direction, GTM plan, sales enablement, and launch coordination. Engineering is done by your team or a partner; ProductBeacon ensures they build the right thing.

Engagement Details

Cadence: Milestone-driven sprints

Duration: 6-16 weeks

Structure: Fixed scope with defined deliverables

Key relationship: Founder / VP Product

What's Included

  • • Discovery and market validation
  • • Competitive landscape and market analysis
  • • Product strategy and business case
  • • Product requirements and development guidance (PRDs, user stories)
  • • Pricing strategy and business model
  • • Design direction and UX specifications
  • • Brand identity and positioning
  • • Go-to-market strategy and launch plan
  • • Sales enablement materials
  • • Interactive demos and prototypes
  • • Launch execution coordination

Who It's For

First-time Product Builders

Startups building their first product who need the full strategic-to-launch package

New Market Entrants

Established companies launching a new product line or entering a new market

Engineering-Heavy Teams

Companies with engineering capacity but lacking product definition and GTM capability

Fundraising Founders

Going from "idea" to "investor-ready product story" fast with concrete deliverables

Tier 3

Product Organization Services

"Scale your product org."

Augmenting, transforming, or operating your product function. From inserting additional PM capacity into an overwhelmed team, to redesigning the product operating model, to running product operations for companies that need process discipline.

Engagement Details

Cadence: Phased or continuous

Duration: 2-12 months

Structure: Retainer or project-based

Key relationship: VP Product / COO

Three Modes

Augmentation

  • • Additional PM capacity
  • • Product operations
  • • Backlog and sprint coordination
  • • Stakeholder reporting

Transformation

  • • Operating model redesign
  • • Team structure and roles
  • • Process design
  • • AI integration and training

Operations

  • • Ongoing product ops
  • • Metrics and analytics
  • • Portfolio management
  • • Cross-functional coordination

Comparing the tiers

Fractional CPO Product Build Org Services
Core question "Who leads product?" "What do we build?" "How does our org work?"
Duration 3-12+ months 6-16 weeks 2-12 months
Mode Embedded leadership Project delivery Augmentation / Transform
Success metric Strategic clarity, team velocity Product launched Process maturity
Buyer CEO / Board Founder / VP Product VP Product / COO

Every engagement starts with Discovery

A 1-2 week structured assessment that establishes fit, scope, and a recommended engagement plan. Discovery delivers immediate value, even if you don't proceed.

1

Situation Assessment

Where is your company today? Product, market, team, and competitive situation.

2

Gap Analysis

What's missing? Strategy, roadmap, processes, team capability, GTM alignment.

3

Recommendation

Proposed tier, scope, timeline, deliverables, and investment. Tailored to your situation.

Discovery investment is applied as credit toward the first engagement month if you proceed.

Not sure which tier fits?

Start with a 30-minute conversation. We'll figure out the right approach together.

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