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Kompella Technologies

Senior Product Leadership · From $8,000/month

Fractional CPO Services. Healthcare. SaaS. Fintech.

Senior product leadership for medical device, SaaS, and fintech startups. Roadmap, research, GTM, pricing, AI strategy. Embedded 2–3 days a week from $8,000/month — vs. $300K+ for a full-time CPO.

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A fractional CPO from Kompella Technologies costs $8,000–$20,000 per month for 1–3 days/week of embedded product leadership: roadmap ownership, user research, GTM and pricing, AI product strategy, and PM hiring. We specialize in healthcare (medical device, EMR/EHR), SaaS, and fintech from pre-seed through Series B. Engagements are month-to-month with 30 days' notice.

What You Get

Strategic product leadership from someone who's shipped 75+ products.

Product Strategy & Vision

We define where your product is going, why it's going there, and the 18-month bets that compound. Not a feature wishlist — a thesis you can defend to investors. Built across medical device platforms (FDA SaMD pathways), SaaS verticals (multi-tenant pricing, retention), and fintech rails (regulated workflows, partner economics).

Roadmap Ownership & Prioritization

We own the roadmap end-to-end: prioritization frameworks, scope decisions, sprint planning, and the hard "no" calls that actually ship. Engineering knows what to build next; sales and CS know what they can promise. We've cut roadmaps in half and shipped 2× faster — Mercer reduced admin tasks by 40% with the same engineering capacity.

User Research & Experience

We lead user research, define personas grounded in real interview data, and design the journey end-to-end. We make sure what you ship solves a problem people will pay to solve — not the problem your loudest customer described last quarter. Critical in healthcare where clinician workflow assumptions kill 70% of features.

GTM, Pricing & Packaging

We sit between product and revenue: pricing models, tier definition, packaging, expansion mechanics, and competitive positioning. For SaaS, we've moved companies from per-seat to outcome-based pricing without churn. For healthcare, we've packaged platforms for both clinician and payer buyers with different willingness-to-pay curves.

AI Product Strategy

We define where AI creates real product value vs. feature theater. Model selection, evaluation harness, hallucination mitigation in regulated contexts, and the build-vs-buy line for embeddings, agents, and RAG. We've shipped AI product features into production across SaaS and healthtech with measurable retention impact.

Product Team & Process Development

We build the product organization that scales after we leave: hiring PMs, defining career ladders, establishing rituals (research reviews, roadmap reviews, launch retros), and the data infrastructure that lets product be measured. Leave behind a team and a system, not just a deck.

How It Works

From first call to embedded product leadership in two weeks.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    30-minute call to understand your product, customers, current roadmap, and what success looks like 90 days from now. You'll leave with three specific recommendations even if we don't end up working together.

  2. 02

    Product audit

    Two-week deep dive: roadmap review, customer interview synthesis, retention/churn analysis, GTM and pricing diagnostic, and product-org assessment. You get a written report ranked by business impact.

  3. 03

    90-day plan

    Joint workshop to align on the first quarter: 3 measurable product outcomes, sequenced workstreams, research priorities, and the team and tools required. Success is defined before any retainer starts.

  4. 04

    Embedded execution

    We work 2–3 days per week as a member of your leadership team. In your standups, your roadmap reviews, your customer calls, and your board prep. Outcomes, not deliverables.

  5. 05

    Hiring & transition

    When the product strategy is set and the team can run it, we help you hire a full-time CPO or Head of Product and stay on as advisor. Goal: a product organization that keeps shipping after we leave.

Pricing

Three transparent tiers. No “request a quote.”

We publish pricing because hiding it doesn't help anyone. Pick the tier that matches your stage; we'll tell you on the first call if neither one fits.

Advisory

$8,000 / month

1 day/week

Strategic guidance, roadmap review, product hiring calibration. No day-to-day ownership.

Ideal stage

Founders with strong PM but needing CPO-level oversight

Fractional

$14,000 / month

2 days/week

Embedded leadership: roadmap ownership, research, GTM/pricing, board updates.

Ideal stage

Seed–Series A startups; growth-stage companies scaling product

Embedded

$20,000 / month

3+ days/week

Near-full-time CPO involvement. Major product re-platforming, GTM pivots, or transitions.

Ideal stage

Series A/B in critical phases; PE-backed portfolio companies

Who This Is For

Designed for founders who need senior product judgment, not headcount.

Most companies pre-Series C don't need a full-time CPO; they need senior product leadership in the room when roadmap, pricing, and GTM decisions are made. If any of these describe you, a fractional engagement is probably the right shape:

  • —Healthtech and medical device startups needing FDA-aware product strategy
  • —SaaS companies with strong engineering but no product leadership
  • —Fintech startups translating regulated workflows into customer-loved products
  • —Founders transitioning from founder-led product to a product team
  • —Series A–C companies preparing roadmap and team for scale
  • —Companies where product and engineering are misaligned on what to ship
  • —PE-backed portfolio companies needing interim product leadership during transitions

Results

Three engagements that show what fractional CPO leadership delivers.

Mercer · Fortune 500

$1M+ saved by killing the wrong product investments

Fractional CPO — audited planned tech investments, redesigned sales enablement, cut 40% of admin tasks.

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A'alda · Healthcare (IPO)

From zero to IPO: building the veterinary healthcare platform

Fractional CPO/CTO from founding through Tokyo IPO. Owned product strategy, GTM, and clinician research.

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Aesthetic Record · SaaS

EMR platform across 4,000+ US clinics

Product leadership for the EMR + practice management platform — pricing, packaging, clinician workflow research.

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FAQ

Common questions about fractional CPO services.

Fractional CPO services run $8,000–$20,000 per month depending on time commitment and complexity. That's roughly 30–40% of a full-time CPO's all-in cost ($300K–$450K+ when you add base, equity, recruiting, and benefits). Three transparent tiers: Advisory ($8K, 1 day/wk), Fractional ($14K, 2 days/wk), and Embedded ($20K, 3+ days/wk).
A Head of Product reports to the CEO, manages 1–3 PMs, and runs day-to-day execution. A CPO sits on the executive team, owns product strategy at the company level, manages the entire product function, and is accountable for the product-revenue link. A fractional CPO brings the strategic CPO layer without the $300K+ full-time hire — ideal when you have an HoP or PMs who can execute but need senior product judgment above them.
Yes — user research is core to product leadership, not a delegated function. We run customer interviews, synthesize insights, and translate them into roadmap decisions. For healthcare clients, we conduct clinician workflow studies; for SaaS, we run jobs-to-be-done research; for fintech, we map decision and approval workflows. We bring research capacity if you don't have a researcher on staff.
We write the JD, calibrate the loop, run the technical product interviews (not just behavioral), and close strong candidates. We've hired PMs from associate to director level across healthtech, SaaS, and fintech. We also fix bad hiring funnels — if you've been searching 4+ months, the problem is usually the rubric, not the market.
Yes — and it's a common structure. The CPO owns what to build and why; the CTO owns how to build it and the engineering team. We provide both roles to companies that need senior product and technology leadership without two full-time executive hires. The pairing typically runs $25K–$45K/month total — versus $700K+ for two full-time hires.
Most engagements run 6–12 months. Some companies transition to a full-time CPO hire (which we help recruit), while others scale down to advisory once the product systems and team are established. Engagements are month-to-month with 30 days' notice — we earn the next month every month.
Healthcare (medical device platforms, EMR/EHR, digital therapeutics, FDA SaMD pathways), SaaS (multi-tenant architecture, vertical SaaS, AI-native products), and fintech (regulated workflows, banking partner economics, payments). 75+ products shipped across these verticals over 15+ years. We're selective about engagements outside these verticals.
Most engagements start within 2 weeks of the first call. The product audit kicks off in week one, the 90-day plan is workshopped in week two, and we're embedded by week three. For urgent product leadership gaps (CPO-quit, PE post-close, board crisis), we've started inside 5 business days.

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