A connected or industrial product has two roadmaps
Hardware, operations, and software each have valid priorities. Nobody has defined the customer outcome that decides between them.
FRACTIONAL CPO · Linz
Fractional CPO Linz
Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Remote-first product leadership for Linz. Add paid on-site discovery when the roadmap crosses software, operations, machines, internal stakeholders, and customers who experience the product differently.
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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 Linz
Linz describes its own economic transition as “from steel to digital”: industry, research, startups, and digital companies operating in the same region.
Product decisions in that environment can span operators, buyers, engineering, suppliers, compliance, and physical workflows. The loudest request may come from the biggest customer or the most senior internal stakeholder, not from the strongest product evidence.
The CPO job is to create one decision model across those voices. We own discovery, product outcomes, and prioritization. Engineering and production remain the CTO’s scope.
Two Linz situations where product ownership is missing
Both involve a roadmap with more stakeholders than evidence.
An internal platform is becoming a real product
The system began as a project for one department or customer. Adoption grows, requests multiply, and the team now needs product criteria rather than project escalation.
The first 30 days with a Linz product team
We go to the workflow before we touch the roadmap.
- Map users, buyers, and operatorsSeparate who buys, who uses, who supports, and who absorbs the operational cost when the product gets a decision wrong.
- Define the product outcomeChoose the customer and business evidence that should drive the next quarter across physical and digital work.
- Install cross-functional prioritizationCreate discovery, roadmap review, decision criteria, and a clear route for operational constraints to enter product planning.
Who owns a Linz industrial product?
The Fractional CPO
owns the customer problem and roadmap. The Fractional CTO Linz
owns systems, suppliers, engineering, and production. A Fractional CTPO
fits when the physical and digital product need one decision owner.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Linz product context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- City of Linz: Economy and innovationOfficial city overview of industrial strength, digital companies, startups, and innovation.
- Wirtschaft & Innovation LinzOfficial city platform describing the link between industry, research, startups, and digital development.
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 Innsbruck →Fractional CPO Tirol →Fractional CPO Vienna →Fractional CPO Graz →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.
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Fractional CPO Linz: local questions
Product discovery when the user is not the only stakeholder.
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