Diagnostic

Execution Risk Check

Interim CTO and CPO cover for the moments a product function cannot wait

An interim CTO or CPO steps into the seat and runs it. Not an advisory retainer and not a review with recommendations attached — the roadmap, the delivery cadence and the team are owned outright for the length of the engagement.

That is usually needed when something has changed faster than hiring can keep up: a departure, a funding round, a diligence process, or a product that has outgrown the person who started it.

This check asks the questions the first weeks of an engagement answer — what is actually shipping, what is blocked, where the risk sits, and what brought you here. You get your score and a breakdown on screen before you are asked for anything.

What you get

Your execution-risk score across four dimensions, on screen immediately
Which dimension is holding you back, and whether the need is urgent or ongoing
A clear next step matched to your result — interim cover or fractional leadership

What it measures

Shipping predictability: You can say what will ship in the next two weeks and be right, and an investor would accept your delivery cadence without translation.
Ownership: A named person owns the roadmap and backlog, and the product function is separated from the person who started it.
Knowledge concentration: Knowledge about how your system works lives in documentation and shared practice, not concentrated in one person's head.
The trigger: You can name what changed to bring you here, and whether the need is urgent (a seat is empty now) or ongoing (senior leadership without full-time).

8 questions, scored out of 24. Your result appears on screen as soon as you finish — no email required to see it.

Question 1 of 8Shipping predictability

Can you say, today, what will ship in the next two weeks, and be right?

Not the plan — what will actually land, and will you be correct about it.

What it measures

Shipping predictability

You can say what will ship in the next two weeks and be right, and an investor would accept your delivery cadence without translation.

Ownership

A named person owns the roadmap and backlog, and the product function is separated from the person who started it.

Knowledge concentration

Knowledge about how your system works lives in documentation and shared practice, not concentrated in one person's head.

The trigger

You can name what changed to bring you here, and whether the need is urgent (a seat is empty now) or ongoing (senior leadership without full-time).

8 questions, scored out of 24. Your result appears on screen as soon as you finish — no email required to see it.

Can you say, today, what will ship in the next two weeks, and be right?

Not the plan — what will actually land, and will you be correct about it.