The team passed the prototype stage and the roadmap did not
Customers exist, but product work still arrives as founder messages, sales promises, and backlog requests. We turn that into evidence and a sequence.
FRACTIONAL CPO · Salzburg
Fractional CPO Salzburg
Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Remote-first product leadership for Salzburg. Add paid on-site customer discovery and roadmap sessions when the real workflow, seasonal window, or partner network matters.
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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 Salzburg
Startup Salzburg operates a network incubator across six service points and supports teams from idea development through market entry. That range matters because a fractional CPO only fits one part of it.
We join post-PMF, when there is enough customer evidence to delegate the product call. Before that, the founder should remain close to discovery. After that, a founder can become the bottleneck by approving every request and carrying every customer conversation alone.
We take the roadmap, discovery cadence, and prioritization. We do not take engineering under a CPO scope, and we do not promise that a local ecosystem connection equals product-market fit.
Two Salzburg moments when a fractional CPO fits
The trigger is a validated product direction that now needs an owner.
Demand has hard seasonal or operational windows
A product cannot learn at the same pace all year. We plan discovery, release questions, and roadmap decisions around the periods when users and operations can produce meaningful evidence.
The first 30 days with a Salzburg product team
The first month makes the product's evidence and timing visible.
- Review the market signalMap customers, usage, interviews, sales promises, support requests, and which decisions are constrained by an operational or seasonal window.
- Choose the next product proofDefine what the next cycle must establish and remove requests that do not support it.
- Set the product calendarInstall discovery, prioritization, roadmap review, and stakeholder communication around the moments when evidence can actually be collected.
Does the Salzburg team need product or technical leadership?
Use the Fractional CPO
for post-PMF roadmap and discovery ownership. Use the Fractional CTO Salzburg
for architecture, engineering, vendors, and production. Use the Fractional CTPO
when both need one owner.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Salzburg product context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- Startup SalzburgOfficial overview of the regional network incubator and its six service points.
- Startup Salzburg servicesOfficial description of the maturity model, incubation, coaching, and market-entry support.
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?
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// 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 Salzburg: local questions
The stage check before the roadmap work.
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