FRACTIONAL CPO · Graz

Fractional CPO Graz

Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on

Remote-first product leadership for Graz and Styria. Add paid on-site discovery, pilot reviews, and roadmap sessions when research, hardware, industry partners, and customer evidence need one decision.

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AwardedTop 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine).
Shipped75+ products, since 2018, across 17 countries.
LanguagesDeutsch, English.
ReviewsGoogle 5.0 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars.
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Working with Wavect in Graz

The Styrian Business Development Agency describes Styria as Austria’s second-strongest startup region, with a strong deep-tech and academic spin-off profile across software, industrial technology, hardware, energy, mobility, and life sciences.

Those products often begin with technical differentiation. Product leadership becomes necessary when pilot feedback, partner requests, research priorities, and a repeatable market proposition start pulling in different directions.

A fractional CPO does not decide whether the technology works. We decide which customer problem to prove, what not to build, and how a successful pilot becomes product evidence rather than permanent custom work.

// LOCAL FIT

Two Graz situations where a fractional CPO fits

The product must already have market evidence. The role is not a substitute for founder discovery.

A research-led product has first customers but no repeatable roadmap

The technology is strong and every pilot asks for something different. We separate product signal from one-off delivery and define the next repeatable bet.

Industrial partners are turning the backlog into custom development

Important customers keep winning priority by size. We create explicit product criteria, discovery, and a sequence that protects the platform.
// FIRST 30 DAYS

The first 30 days with a Graz product team

We separate technical evidence, customer evidence, and commercial pressure.

  1. Read pilots and customer behaviour
    Review interviews, usage, pilot outcomes, partner requests, sales objections, and where custom work entered the roadmap.
  2. Define the repeatable product claim
    Choose the customer problem, segment, and outcome the next quarter must prove.
  3. Create a pilot-to-product cadence
    Set discovery, prioritization, pilot acceptance, roadmap review, and rules for when custom work earns platform investment.
// ROLE CHECK

Graz deep tech: CPO, CTO, or CTPO?

The Fractional CPO owns market evidence and prioritization. The Fractional CTO Graz owns technical evidence and production. The Fractional CTPO owns the boundary when a product decision cannot be separated from feasibility.
// SOURCES

What we use for Graz product context

We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.

  • SFG StartupmarkOfficial Styrian ecosystem overview covering deep-tech, spin-offs, software, industrial technology, hardware, energy, mobility, and life sciences.
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Offer, pricing, and team

This city page explains local delivery and buyer context. The national Fractional CPO page owns the complete offer, engagement tiers, pricing, founder credentials, specialist network, and service proof.

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Role and region navigation

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Fractional CPO Graz: local questions

Turning technical differentiation into product decisions.

Yes, if the pilots have produced real customer evidence. We define the repeatable problem, identify one-off requests, set prioritization criteria, and create a roadmap that does not quietly become bespoke development.
No. We test product assumptions with the technical team, but architecture and engineering accountability belong to the Fractional CTO Graz or a combined Fractional CTPO .

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