Build The Right Thing.
Build It Right.

Get a fractional product manager that understands your users, speaks your engineers' language, and owns the full cycle from discovery to delivery.

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Why Not Just Hire a PM Consultant?

Traditional PM consultants lack technical fluency. The result? Months of delays when strategy meets reality.

Traditional PM Consultants

Month 1-2: Write Strategy Docs

From conference room, limited user contact, no codebase review

Month 3: Hand Off & Disappear

Team left to implement specs without support, consultant unavailable for questions or clarifications

Month 4-6: Team Struggles

Users say it's not what they need, engineers say it's not feasible

Result: Strategy from outside, disconnected from reality

Runlight
Embedded Partner

Week 1: Talk to Users & Review Codebase

Understand user problems AND technical constraints. Strategy informed by both.

Ongoing: Embedded With Team & Users

Join user calls AND standups. Validate problems, execute solutions, iterate fast.

Continuous: Ship & Learn

Test with users, build with engineers, measure results. Always here.

Result: Build what users need, shipped feasibly and fast

They advise from outside. We're in the trenches with your users AND your team.

What You Get

End-to-end product ownership: from understanding users to shipping solutions.

Find The Right Problems

User research, customer interviews, problem validation. We don't just build fast, we build what users actually need.

Strategy That's Executable

Roadmaps informed by users, feasible for your tech stack. Valuable AND buildable, not one or the other.

Ship & Validate Fast

Technical fluency means faster iteration cycles. Test with users, ship with engineers, learn and adapt.

Our Difference

We Don't Just Plan.We Execute.

The market is full of strategists who hand off specs and disappear. We're product managers with technical fluency who stay in the trenches with your team, unblock issues, and contribute hands-on when needed to ensure the vision becomes reality.

  • End-to-end ownership: From concept to deployment
  • Technical credibility: We speak engineer and understand the constraints
  • Faster iteration: No handoff delays between strategy and execution

What You Get

Product Strategy

Vision, roadmaps, discovery

Technical Execution

Hands-on when needed, always fluent

Team Leadership

Sprints, standups, delivery

Technical Fluency

We Speak Engineering

Product managers with deep technical backgrounds. We understand your codebase, your constraints, and your architecture.

Tech Stack We've Worked With

FRONTEND

ReactNext.jsVueNuxtTailwind

BACKEND

Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLAPIs

TOOLS

GitCI/CDDocker

How This Helps You

Technically Feasible Roadmaps

We understand what's possible and what's not

Unblock Your Team

Jump in when needed, guide through complexity

Smart Technical Decisions

Architecture choices that support product goals

Speak Their Language

Engineers trust us because we understand their work

How We Work

Fractional Product Leadership - Two Engagement Models

Strategic Advisor

10 hours per week

Part-time strategic guidance for teams that need product direction but have execution covered.

What's Included

  • Problem discovery & validation
  • Product strategy & roadmap development
  • Technical feasibility review
  • Customer interview facilitation
  • Async collaboration via Slack/Linear
  • Weekly sync meetings

Best for:

Teams with senior engineers who can self-organize, technical founders who need to delegate product decisions, companies in between product hires

Embedded PM
Most Popular

20 hours per week

Fully integrated into your team's daily workflow—join standups, review PRs, unblock issues, and drive execution.

What's Included

  • Everything in Strategic Advisor, plus:
  • User research & feedback loops
  • Daily standup participation
  • Sprint planning & backlog grooming
  • Active collaboration in your tools (GitHub, Linear, Slack)
  • Hands-on unblocking when needed

Best for:

Teams that lack PM leadership entirely, companies burned by strategy-only consultants, startups that need someone in the trenches with the team

Real Results

What happens when product strategy meets technical fluency

S

SaaS Startup

15-person team

The Challenge

Hired a PM consultant who delivered a beautiful roadmap. Three months later, engineering team was stuck trying to implement specs that didn't account for their technical architecture.

What We Did

Joined as Fractional PM. First week: reviewed codebase, identified technical constraints, revised roadmap to be technically feasible. Worked alongside engineers to unblock issues and guide implementation.

Impact

  • • 5 major features shipped in 3 months
  • • Engineering velocity increased 2.3x
  • • Zero "this spec is impossible" moments
F

Fintech Platform

Technical founders

The Challenge

Technical founders great at building, but no product strategy. Previous PM advisor couldn't speak their language, so they ignored half the recommendations.

What We Did

Discovery Sprint: user research + technical validation with working prototype. Showed founders concrete strategy with technical feasibility, not just slides. Participated in technical discussions and shaped product direction with credibility.

Impact

  • • MVP launched in 6 weeks (vs 4-month estimate)
  • • 100% of strategic recommendations implemented
  • • Founders: "Finally, a PM who gets it"

*Company names anonymized.

What Founders Say

Real feedback from founders and partners we've worked with

Mufeed VH
Mufeed VH
CEO, Asterisk (YC S24)

"We hired Kiran to refine product design, analyze user engagement, and finalize GTM for Opcode (formerly Claudia). He went beyond expectations. He applied his thesis into the product itself by contributing to the codebase via PRs. This was a complete hands-off experience, letting us ship in 2 weeks instead of 5."

Jofin Joseph
Jofin Joseph
Partner, Pienza Ventures

"Kiran helped us automate how we shortlist startups and match them with the right VCs based on their thesis. What impressed me most was his speed of execution, he turned something that would have taken us weeks into a smooth, automated workflow in just a few days."

Felix Josemon
Felix Josemon
Founder, KPH & Conversion AB

"Kiran has been instrumental in shaping KPH. He set up the automated workflows that handle our fund applications smoothly, built the KPH website from scratch in a day, and even supported ConversionAB with AI and automation consulting. What stands out is that he doesn't merely strategize; he also executes."

Frequently Asked Questions

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