Transform Your Product Organization from Chaos to Clarity

Whether you need a quick diagnostic, a full-scale implementation, or focused advisory, my services are designed to give your teams a system they can confidently run and scale.

How We Engage Together

Companies engage with Apex Solutions at different points in their growth, depending on where friction is showing up. Sometimes the issue is a lack of clarity or alignment. Sometimes execution has become unpredictable. Sometimes, experienced product judgment is needed before systems are fully in place.

Rather than forcing a single engagement model, I start by understanding how your organization actually works today and where it is starting to strain. From there, we choose the right way to work together, with the goal of restoring clarity, alignment, and predictable execution that your team can sustain.

ProductOS™ Audit

A focused, evidence-based assessment of how your product organization actually works today.

Through surveys, interviews, and artifact reviews, I identify the system-level causes of slow execution, unclear strategy, and misalignment, then deliver a clear, data-driven baseline with the three highest-leverage areas for improvement.

Completed in three to four weeks, with optional advisory support for next steps. Often the starting point before deeper system work.

Product Operating System™ Implementation

A tailored, end-to-end installation of your Product Operating System that connects strategy, prioritization, definition, planning, and execution.

Through workshops, decision frameworks, strategy translation, artifact creation, cadence mapping, and early-cycle guidance, we build a durable operating model your teams can run with confidence, resulting in clearer strategy, aligned decisions, consistent communication, predictable delivery, and an operating rhythm owned by the team rather than individuals.

Delivered over approximately sixteen weeks, with optional ongoing advisory or fractional CPO support.

ProductOS™ Foundations Workshop

A high-impact introduction to the logic, principles, and patterns behind a modern Product Operating System.

Through interactive exercises and facilitated discussion, your leadership team gains clarity on where strategy drifts, where decisions break, and where execution slows, along with a shared understanding of what effective product operations look like and early insight into gaps across strategy, definition, prioritization, communication, and execution.

Delivered in a four-hour session with a brief synthesis and next-steps summary.

ProductOS™ Advisory Session

A focused working session that diagnoses your most urgent product issue through the ProductOS lens.

I pinpoint the underlying system cause and identify two to three targeted actions you can take immediately, giving you fast, actionable clarity on what is driving the issue and the simplest next steps to address it.

Delivered in a ninety-minute session with a brief written summary.

Embedded Fractional Product Leadership (Situational)

Used in specific situations where experienced product judgment and continuity are needed before systems are fully in place. I embed with your leadership team in a limited, time-bound operating role as a fractional CPO or senior product leader when experienced product judgment is required.

In this posture, I take accountability for product direction and prioritization, help make trade-offs explicit, align Product, Engineering, and GTM, and establish the planning and review rhythms required to support execution. I work closely with founders and product leaders during periods of transition, ambiguity, or acceleration.

This model is appropriate when continuity and decision quality matter more than installing new systems, and when committing to a full-time executive would be premature. It is not intended as a long-term substitute for building internal leadership or operating discipline.

Why My Approach Works

  • Tailored to Your Reality: We don’t force a cookie-cutter solution. Every engagement starts with understanding your team, processes, and constraints.

  • Data-Driven Decisions: From audits to workshops, every recommendation is grounded in facts, not opinions.

  • Sustainable Systems: We build processes and rhythms that teams can maintain independently, creating long-term value.

  • Immediate Impact: Even short advisory sessions deliver actionable clarity and concrete next steps.

Ready to Transform Your Product Organization?

Whether you need a full-scale Product Operating SystemTM implementation or a focused advisory session, we’ll work with you to create clarity, alignment, and predictable outcomes for your teams.

Contact

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +1 971-390-2730

Address: 9608 NW Caxton Lane Portland, OR 97229 USA

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