Product Consulting
Expert advice to help your product grow faster and safer — from technology and team management to marketing and pricing, always a question away.
Making product decisions across technology, team, marketing and pricing without a trusted expert to pressure-test them — raising the risk of avoidable, costly missteps.
Product Consulting helps your product grow faster and more securely — improving it, reducing the risk of failure and giving you a competitive edge. It starts by gathering information about your business, goals and objectives; then our experts share their experience to advise on how to reach them. It also means educating you across every aspect of your product — from technology and team management to marketing strategy and pricing models — and keeping you current on trends and best practices. Our team is always ready to answer any questions, technical or business.
- Advice that helps the product grow faster and safer.
- A competitive edge from current trends and best practices.
- Guidance across technology, team, marketing and pricing.
- Experts always a question away.
A bounded, phased engagement. Each bar below is proportional to its estimated duration on a shared calendar.
Understand your business aspects, goals and objectives.
Share experience and recommendations to reach them.
Keep you current on trends and best practices.
Concrete artefacts you keep — delivered in editable, open formats your team owns.
Goals Assessment
Your business, goals and objectives gathered and understood.
AssessmentExpert Advice
Recommendations on how to reach those goals.
GuidanceOngoing Q&A
Answers to technical and business questions as they arise.
Ongoing
The edges of this engagement, and what we’ll need from you to run it.
- Executing the strategy or building the product.
- Full development leadership (that's S-005).
- Legal, accounting or regulated financial advice.
- Guarantees of specific business outcomes.
- A product and the goals you want it to reach.
- Openness about your business, team and constraints.
- Availability for consulting sessions.
- Someone to act on the advice.
Fixed-scope and outcome-priced — one agreed figure for a defined set of deliverables, with no hourly billing.
Per month — Small $2,800 to Large $5,300 by scope.
- Fixed scope, agreed before we start — no open-ended hourly billing.
- One figure covers the full set of deliverables listed alongside.
- The number only moves with system complexity, and only by agreement.
- Goals Assessment
- Expert Advice
- Ongoing Q&A
Answers to the questions we hear most about this engagement.
What can we consult on?
Any product issue — technology, team management, marketing strategy, pricing models — plus current trends and best practices. Technical or business, our team is there.
Is it ongoing?
Yes — a monthly retainer so the advice is there whenever a question or decision comes up.
How is it priced?
A monthly retainer, from $2,800 to $5,300 depending on scope.
How is it different from Startups Support (S-002)?
S-002 is tuned to early startups with limited resources; S-006 is broader product consulting for a maturing product.