The technical product has users, but no product operating system
The team can build, but discovery is occasional, the roadmap is a request list, and nobody can explain why one bet comes before another.
FRACTIONAL CPO · Innsbruck
Fractional CPO Innsbruck
Kevin's home · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Remote-first product leadership, with Kevin based in Innsbruck. Use paid on-site time for customer workshops, roadmap decisions, and stakeholder interviews that are genuinely better in the room.
Reply within 4 working hours. Usually within 1.
AwardedTop 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine).
Shipped75+ products, 5+ years, across 17 countries.
LanguagesDeutsch, English.
ReviewsGoogle 4.7 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars.
Working with Wavect in Innsbruck
Innsbruck is Kevin’s base; Wavect GmbH is registered nearby in Ampass. That makes local product workshops practical. It does not mean a fractional CPO sits in your office every day, and it does not create a Wavect city office.
Startup.Tirol supports research- and technology-driven teams through commercialisation and market-entry programmes. Cluster IT Tirol connects software companies, institutions, and universities across several applied technology fields. For a CPO, the useful implication is simple: technical possibility still has to become a product somebody chooses and pays for.
We join after there is market evidence and the founder is ready to delegate product authority. Pre-PMF, product is still founder work; we will not sell a CPO retainer as a shortcut around that.
Two Innsbruck situations where a fractional CPO fits
Both are post-PMF. If there is no customer evidence yet, this is the wrong service.
The founder owns every product decision and has run out of calendar
Sales, fundraising, partnerships, and team management now compete with weekly prioritization. We take the product cadence once the founder is genuinely ready to hand over that authority.
The first 30 days in an Innsbruck CPO engagement
The first month should create evidence, a decision order, and fewer meetings.
- Read the product evidenceReview customers, usage, interviews, sales objections, roadmap history, current commitments, and the decisions the team keeps reopening.
- Choose the product questionDefine the one outcome the next quarter must prove and the customer evidence needed to support it.
- Install discovery and prioritizationSet the interview cadence, decision criteria, roadmap review, and a short product narrative the team can execute.
CPO, CTO, or CTPO in Innsbruck?
Choose the Fractional CPO
when customer evidence, prioritization, and roadmap have no owner. Choose the Fractional CTO Innsbruck
when architecture, engineering, vendors, or production are the gap. Choose the Fractional CTPO
when one person must own both.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Innsbruck product context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- Startup.TirolOfficial overview of regional support for research transfer, startup development, and market entry.
- Cluster IT TirolOfficial overview of the software, institutional, and university network in Tirol.
Engagement tiers and transparent pricing
Four ways to start. Each one has a clear scope and a clear cancellation policy. No hours tracked, no surprise invoices.
CPO-on-Call
Async roadmap triage, prioritization calls, discovery sanity-checks on demand.
4 to 8 hours per month
FROM
€2,500/ month
Start here →Embedded Fractional CPO
Own the roadmap and the discovery cadence. Prioritization framework, stakeholder alignment, sequenced backlog.
1 to 2 days per week
FROM
€12,000/ month
Start here →Product Due Diligence
Fixed-price product, roadmap, and market-fit assessment for fundraising or M&A. Investor-ready report.
1 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM
€8,000fixed
Start here →Discovery + Roadmap
Two to three week deep-dive into the product. Prioritization framework and a sequenced roadmap.
2 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM
€3,500fixed
Start here →Fixed-price engagements (Product Due Diligence, Discovery + Roadmap) are signed SoW (Werkvertrag). Wavect is legally bound on scope and deliverables. Retainers (CPO-on-Call, Embedded Fractional CPO) run as a freier Dienstvertrag and cancel weekly with no notice.
// 03How the network model works
Three things that make this different from hiring one product consultant with one calendar.
You hire two founders, not one consultant.
Kevin and Christof are on every engagement. One is your product and CPO interface, the other keeps the roadmap honest against what is actually buildable. No account-manager handoff, no junior on the call after week three.
The bench scales when the work does.
15+ specialists we have shipped production work with. When product decisions need deep domain input (security, ML, mobile, IoT), they plug in under the Wavect SoW. One contract, one invoice. We stay accountable for the outcome.
You stay in control of the contract.
Werkvertrag for fixed-price work (signed scope, legally bound). freier Dienstvertrag retainer for ongoing product leadership (cancel any week). No hour tracking. No scope-creep invoices. The price you sign is the price you pay.
Who is in the room
Two managing directors. Both technical. Both on every engagement.
Kevin Riedl
Managing Director, Operations and Product
- Engineer since 13: TypeScript, C#, Rust, still in the pull requests.
- Founder-led podcast, 96 episodes with 9-figure founders.
- 75+ products shipped across 17 countries.
Christof Jori
Managing Director, Software
- Enterprise architecture, AI, and system reliability.
- Test-driven development, QA as a business enabler.
- 10 years cross-domain engineering.
Looking for a different city?
Fractional CPO Tirol →Fractional CPO Vienna →Fractional CPO Graz →Fractional CPO Linz →Fractional CPO Salzburg →Fractional CPO Munich →Fractional CPO Zurich →
Back to Austria →
// proof
Proof, not promises
4 years
Inside the City-Scale Build
Smart City IoT for Innsbruck: hardened LoRaWAN infrastructure, evaluated and integrated multi-vendor devices, wrote the per-device …
Kubernetes
LoRaWAN
Docker
2 months
0 to Enterprise
Institutional bond analytics platform, zero to enterprise-ready in 2 months; raised multiple rounds.
NestJS
React
Typescript
7 services
Unified Testing
1.5 years owning QA across seven services and multiple vendors. Quality stayed shippable through every refactor.
React
Java/Kotlin
Go
These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 75+ products since 2018.
What clients say
LinkedIn
If you're thinking about digitization of your company, tokenization, coding... you name it, I'd strongly recommend to get in touch with Kevin. His knowledge in the field is unparalleled and working with him a sheer pleasure as he is a super nice guy, strategic thinker and proactively hard worker. Thanks for your brilliant work Kev!
LinkedIn
I got to know Kevin around 1 year ago and have been working together with him since then. His vast knowledge in tech and programming combined with his business acumen makes him the go-to person for me in regards to any tech-related topics. Regardless if it is a project in the field of blockchain, IoT, or any other software development domain, I can recommend reaching out to Kevin to benefit from his tech know-how and a business relationship based on trust and customer centricity.
Trustpilot
Excellent work. The collaboration was very pleasant and you always had the feeling of being in good and capable hands.
Independently rated 5.0/5 on Clutch Read the reviews
Fractional CPO Innsbruck: local questions
Product ownership, with the stage check left in.
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