Pre-Seed Stage
Fractional Head of Product
at Pre-Seed
At pre-seed, you're testing whether the idea has legs. You don't need a big team or heavy process at this point. You need quick iteration and someone who has done this before. We help pre-seed founders move from hypothesis to evidence without burning through runway on premature hires or bloated product builds.
Typical challenges at Pre-Seed
- •No product leadership, so the founder is making every product decision alone
- •Building too much before validating whether anyone will pay for it
- •No delivery discipline: work happens reactively with no cadence or structure
- •Struggling to articulate the product vision to potential investors or early hires
What we bring as Head of Product
We take ownership of your product direction. That means defining what to build and why, aligning engineering and commercial priorities, and creating the roadmap discipline that turns founder intuition into repeatable product decisions. We run discovery, set priorities, and make sure each sprint goes on work that matters.
A clear product strategy your team can work from, roadmaps tied to revenue, and a way of prioritising that holds up in practice. Your team knows why it is building what it builds.
What Pre-Seed companies need
At this stage, you need senior thinking without senior cost. A fractional leader gives you the strategic layer to make better decisions about what to build, how to validate it, and when to hire, without committing to a full-time executive salary before you've found product-market fit.