Fractional executive leadership · Fractional product management · Management transformation · AI enablement

A senior leader in your seat in days.
Not after a six-month search.

Fractional CPO, CTO, CMO, and GM engagements for companies that need the leader before they can justify — or attract — the full-time hire. A working product manager for companies that need product management before they need a product executive.

A leader who has done the job before, working inside your systems from week one, with a plan to hand off to your full-time hire. When the founder is still writing the specs, or a launch has nobody owning it, a fractional product manager takes the work on, a few days a month or full time until you hire. For leadership teams with the people but not the operating system, management transformation. For every team that needs to work with AI, The AI-Enabled Organization, self-paced, from $99 per seat, per year.

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Fractional CPO Fractional CTO Fractional CMO Fractional GM Fractional product manager Product & go-to-market consulting
Cockpit view of a race car at speed
Days
Until a senior leader is in your seat, not the six months an executive search takes
85%
Faster time to market, delivered as a product & technology leader: the record behind the seat you are filling
$10M → $500M+
Four private-equity-backed businesses scaled, so the playbook you get has been run before
30+
Years building, scaling, and transforming software & security businesses, applied to yours from day one

Why fractional

An executive search takes six months. The roadmap, the platform, and the pipeline will not wait.

01

Someone owns the number

A senior leader takes the seat in your organization, owns the function's number, and does the work alongside your team — not a deck about the work. They have done the job before, and you hold them accountable for the outcome.

02

Days, not months

A fractional engagement puts the leader, or the product manager, in the seat in days, and the search for your full-time hire can run at the same time instead of holding everything else up.

03

Built to hand off, not to stay

Every engagement ends with a stronger team, a documented operating system, and a clean handoff to your full-time leader on your timeline. You keep the team, the system, and the timeline.

Which service fits

Four services, chosen by what you're missing. One measure: your outcomes, reached sooner.

Fractional leadership

You need the leader now

Fractional CPO, CTO, CMO, and GM engagements on a project or retainer, with full accountability for the function's outcomes and a hiring plan that graduates to your full-time leader.

Fractional product management

You need a product manager, not a chief product officer

A founder still writing the specs, an engineering lead doing the PM work on the side, a launch nobody owns, or the gap between one product manager leaving and the next one starting. For companies that cannot afford, justify, or fill the full-time seat, a working product manager takes on discovery, the roadmap, the PRDs, the backlog, and the launch, inside your tools and cadence. A few days a month, or full time while you hire.

Management transformation

You have the leaders, not the operating system

We rebuild how your leadership team plans, decides, and executes: operating cadence, decision rights, planning and prioritization, cross-functional handoffs, and the metrics that prove the new system is working.

AI enablement

You need every team working with AI, not just the enthusiasts

The AI-Enabled Organization: a self-paced online program for all 13 functions, so each team works with AI and hands its work to the next team with zero rework. Foundations is $99 per seat, per year; All functions, every team module on one seat, is $299; both step down with seat count. Take it self-serve, have us deliver it in the optional six-week rollout, or have a fractional CPO or CTO lead it from the seat.

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Fractional CPO

Product strategy, roadmap, and PM org design and coaching.

Fractional CTO

Architecture, engineering leadership, technical hiring, and delivery.

Fractional CMO

Positioning, demand generation, brand, and the marketing org.

Fractional GM

General management of a business unit or product line: the P&L, the operating plan, and the team that delivers it.

Fractional product manager

Discovery, roadmap, PRDs, backlog, and launches, a few days a month or full time while you hire.

Product & go-to-market consulting

For teams that already have the leader and need the practice tightened: the cadence, the launches, and the handoffs between product, product marketing, and sales.

About

Who takes the seat, and how the engagement runs.

Caldermont Management fills the leadership seats a company needs before it can make the full-time hire: Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and General Manager. The person in your seat works inside your systems and policies, on a project or retainer, with full accountability for the function.

Not every gap is an executive seat. When a company needs product management some of the time but cannot afford, justify, or fill a full-time product manager's seat, a working product manager from Caldermont does the job: discovery, the roadmap, the requirements, and the launches, for as long as the gap lasts.

When the leaders are in place but the company still moves slowly, management transformation rebuilds how the leadership team plans, decides, and executes. When every team needs to work with AI, The AI-Enabled Organization teaches all 13 functions to do it, and to hand work to each other without rework.

The firm is led by Robert (Bob) Joseph Shaker II, who has spent more than 30 years building, scaling, and transforming cybersecurity and software businesses, including four private-equity-backed businesses scaled from $10M to more than $500M. That is the experience behind every seat we fill.

Every engagement is measured the same way: the outcomes you were already working toward, reached sooner.

Engagement model

  • Project or retainer based, with full accountability for the outcome
  • Within your systems and policies
  • Built to hand off to your full-time leader, on your timeline

Contact

Tell us the outcome. We'll shorten the path.

Email us the outcome you're after and the date it has to land by. We come back with the shape of an engagement, who would take the seat, and how soon they can start.

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