Investor and customer requests have become the roadmap
Every request sounds strategic because it comes from an important stakeholder. We restore customer evidence, explicit trade-offs, and one product sequence.
FRACTIONAL CPO · Vienna
Fractional CPO Vienna
Christof's home · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Remote-first product leadership, with Christof based in Vienna. Add paid on-site customer workshops, stakeholder interviews, and roadmap decisions when the room is worth the time.
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 Vienna
Vienna gives Wavect a practical local base through Christof. It also has an international startup network: ViennaUP reported more than 14,000 participants from over 90 countries across 65 events in 2026.
That density can produce useful connections and a lot of product noise. Investors, enterprise prospects, partners, and different markets can all generate plausible roadmap requests. A CPO’s job is not to collect them. It is to decide which customer problem the company will prove next.
We take that authority after product-market fit and only when the founder is ready to delegate it. We do not own engineering under a CPO scope.
Two Vienna situations where product leadership is the bottleneck
The product has evidence. The problem is deciding what that evidence means.
A founder-led product now spans markets and teams
The founder still approves every decision while sales, delivery, and fundraising consume the calendar. We install a product operating cadence and take the weekly call.
The first 30 days with a Vienna product team
No 80-slide strategy deck. We produce a product decision system the team can use.
- Reconstruct the evidenceReview customers, interviews, usage, win-loss notes, commitments, roadmap history, and the assumptions currently presented to the board.
- Choose the next product outcomeDefine what must be learned or changed in the next quarter and which requests do not support that outcome.
- Run the cadenceSet discovery interviews, prioritization criteria, roadmap review, stakeholder communication, and a clear product narrative.
Vienna team: product problem or engineering problem?
Use the Fractional CPO
for roadmap, discovery, and prioritization. Use the Fractional CTO Vienna
for architecture, engineering, vendors, and production. Use the Fractional CTPO
if the same leader must own both.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Vienna product context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- City of Vienna: ViennaUP 2026Official city report on ViennaUP's international participation, events, and ecosystem reach.
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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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 Vienna: local questions
Roadmap ownership without pretending every stakeholder is the customer.
Two founders. One number. Reply in four hours.
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