For the head of product with a list that never gets done.
Engineering is pointed at the roadmap. The admin tools, reports and integrations that cost the business every week keep losing. Give them a track of their own.
What we hear.
- “My list never wins a sprint.”Small, high-value items always lose to the roadmap.
- “Ops are running half the business in spreadsheets.”Staff hours leak every day, and the CEO has started noticing.
- “I want to ship something small and see if anyone uses it.”And the answer is next quarter.
- “Every small request turns into a planning argument.”More time negotiating for capacity than shaping product.
- “There’s no headcount this year.”The board wants the same team to do more.
How a fractional team helps.
A track that never competes with the roadmap
Your list, worked one task at a time, without taking engineers off the big work.
Ship, see how people use it, adjust
Small releases ops and sales can use as they land, within days.
No capacity negotiations
You reorder your queue whenever priorities change.
Easy on your engineering team
We review the codebase before changing anything and work under your NDA and security policies.
We’d usually recommend Embedded. If ops tooling and customer work both need to move at once, Embedded Plus runs two tracks.
“Build an admin tool so ops can stop using spreadsheets.”
Shipped in small releases ops could use as they landed, starting with the job that eats the most hours.
- Asked which first. Booking changes take ops the most time each week, so they shipped first.
- Kept out of the way. Its own track, reviewed before release, so the roadmap team isn’t pulled in.
- Used early. Each piece went live as soon as it passed review, not at the end.
Relevant work.
TG ConsultingEVOLUTION: one platform that works for students, assessors and organisers
TG Consulting was stuck on off-the-shelf assessment platforms that fitted nobody. We designed for each group separately, then brought them together in one platform.
Built for three very different users
SGMFSGMF: safety calculations that took days now take minutes
A global industry body was running critical marine fuel safety calculations through manual entry and Excel. We worked out what was really slowing it down, then replaced it with validated, automated software.
95% less processing time
iMaintainiMaintain: from a founder’s idea to an AI maintenance platform
iMaintain’s founders knew maintenance inside out but weren’t developers. We acted as their product team: discovery first, a two-week proof of concept, then a production MVP built sprint by sprint alongside them.
Discovery to MVP in six months
Questions we hear.
Is it really unlimited?
Unlimited requests, yes. Add as much to your queue as you like. We work through it one task at a time per track, so you get a steady flow of finished work rather than ten things half done. Want things moving faster? Add a second track.
Can you work on our existing software?
Yes, and most clients start that way. We review the codebase early so we understand it before we change anything.
Will you sign our NDA?
Of course. We’re happy to work under your NDA and security policies.