We specialize in providing fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) services to help businesses transform their product visions into market realities.
Interim CPO/CTO
Practice Overview
Product Vision and Strategy
Creating a great product team starts with setting your vision and strategy.
We work closely with your team to develop a strong product vision that aligns with your business objectives, values, and customer needs, helping you shape the future of your market.
Product Planning and Execution
We help you create and manage product plans that align with your strategic goals.
We work alongside your team to make data-driven decisions and pivot when necessary to keep your products on track for success.
Team Leadership and Development
Topular Strategy can help establish best practices for your product organization including day-to-day leadership of the product organization or project.
With decades of experience, we can provide interim senior leadership and help you to recruit and transition to a full time employee.
Sample Client Engagements
Assisted with the successful launch of dozens of startups – many with high scalability, high availability needs. Also worked with established companies to innovate and launch new products.
• ProQuest/Serials Solutions – Let the technology team behind Summon, a research search engine for libraries, from inception through 250+ customers internationally.
• AccuWeather – Worked with executive management to set product requirements for a new line of business. Formed and operated an outsourced product development team.
• LinkStorm – Acted as interim CTO as the company shifted from a publishing-facing business model to an advertising platform. Brought in a team to rearchitect key areas.
• Lucky Litter – Re-architected ecommerce system and order processing for a direct-to-consumer ecommerce company.
• Essembly / Facebook Causes – Provided technical oversight, mentoring, and project management to an entrepreneurial team of college-aged developers to get them to their public release. Technology became the basis of the Facebook app platform.
• TNS Media Intelligence – Performed technical due diligence for potential acquisition targets.
• High Beam Research – Created an 18-month technology plan that streamlined and simplified the existing architecture for both their eCommerce platform and search engine.
• National Philanthropic Trust – Built and licensed a toolset for automatically creating aggregated topic-based news feeds.
• Living Independently – Provided interim CTO services to the healthcare startup including technology team recruitment and leadership, product development, and vendor management. Progressed from concept to functional prototype in one month. Throughout the one-year engagement delivered an end-to-end consumer solution.
• RippleTech – Assisted the executive management team with technology strategies for launching the company’s second product line. Mentored CTO throughout a business-critical project re-architecture project.
Why work with Topular Strategy?
Our strategic advisory services are customized to meet your business needs.