An established business is turning a service into a product
A portal, platform, connected service, or internal system is becoming something customers or teams depend on. Requests arrive from every side, but no product owner protects the outcome.
FRACTIONAL CPO · Tirol
Fractional CPO Tirol
Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Wavect GmbH is registered in Ampass, Tirol. Product leadership runs remote first across the region, with paid on-site discovery and roadmap sessions where the room changes the decision.
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.
What does a fractional CPO actually do?
A fractional CPO leads product for a company that does not yet need (or cannot yet afford) a full-time chief product officer. The work is product: roadmap, prioritization, and the customer-discovery cadence. It does not own engineering, which is the fractional CTO’s job. The shape is one to two days per week, on a retainer that cancels weekly, with a clear handover when the full-time CPO is in the chair. It fits post-PMF, when the founder is ready to delegate the product call. At Wavect it is the product-only slice of our combined CTPO role, and two founders are on every engagement.
// 02Working with Wavect in Tirol
Tirol is the regional product-leadership page. Wavect GmbH is registered in Ampass and Kevin is based in Innsbruck, but the operating model covers teams across the region.
Startup.Tirol supports research transfer, startup development, market entry, and scaling. Cluster IT Tirol spans software and applied digital technology across industries. That creates many possible product contexts, so we refuse the lazy line that there is one “typical Tirol startup.”
The CPO gap is narrower: the product already has market evidence, but roadmap, discovery, and prioritization do not have an owner. We take that product authority. We do not take engineering; that belongs to the CTO.
Where a product-leadership gap appears across Tirol
These situations can happen in a startup or an established company.
A technology startup has traction and too many possible next moves
The team has customer evidence. What it lacks is a repeatable discovery cadence and a roadmap that says no to attractive distractions.
The first 30 days across a Tyrolean product team
We begin by identifying whose problem the product is solving and which evidence is currently missing.
- Map customers and commitmentsReview users, buyers, sales promises, existing interviews, usage, roadmap debt, and stakeholder requests.
- Define the next product proofChoose the business and customer outcome the next quarter must establish, then cut work that does not support it.
- Create the decision cadenceInstall interviews, prioritization criteria, roadmap reviews, and a handover-ready product narrative.
Product owner or technical owner?
The Fractional CPO
owns post-PMF product direction. The Fractional CTO Tirol
owns engineering and production. The Fractional CTPO
combines both when splitting them would create a coordination tax.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Tirol product context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- WKO company profile for Wavect GmbHPublic company record supporting the Ampass registration.
- Startup.TirolOfficial overview of regional startup and technology-transfer programmes.
- Cluster IT TirolOfficial description of the regional software and digital-technology network.
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.
// 04How 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 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 Tirol: regional questions
The role boundary, before the retainer.
Two founders. One number. Reply in four hours.
Reply within 4 working hours. Usually within 1.