For Investors

Reduce founder risk. Get your portfolio shipping.

Your founders don't need another intro to a recruiter. They need embedded product leadership that gets them from concept to demo-ready, before the runway burns out.

✓ 24 years shipping products✓ Emergency services grade reliability✓ Pre-seed to Series A experience

The CTO search is killing your portfolio velocity

You've backed a sharp founder with a real insight. Now they're spending months:

✗Interviewing 47 CTO candidates who want 15% equity
✗Building with agencies who disappear after launch
✗Burning runway on technical decisions they can't evaluate
✗Missing market windows while 'getting the team right'

Meanwhile, the problem they spotted is getting solved by someone else.

Embedded product leadership. No equity drama.

I work alongside your founders as a fractional PM/CTO — validating, building, and shipping real products while they focus on customers and fundraising.

✓Ship a working MVP in 30-60 days, not 6 months
✓Make technical decisions that scale (and can be audited)
✓Build investor-ready demos, not slideware
✓Prepare clean handover for their eventual CTO hire

Portfolio companies I can help

🎯

Pre-seed with conviction

Strong founder, clear problem. Just needs someone to build it properly.

🔥

Co-founder departure

Technical co-founder left. Product stalled. Investors nervous.

💸

Agency burn recovery

£50k spent, nothing works. Need someone to salvage and ship.

⏰

Runway pressure

6 months left. Need demo-ready product for next raise.

How engagements work

Transparent, measurable, designed for early-stage.

1

Discovery Sprint

5 days to define MVP scope, success metrics, and technical approach. Ideal for pre-commitment validation.

2

Fractional Engagement

7-8 days/month ongoing. Hands-on product leadership, architecture oversight, delivery coordination.

3

Ship & Measure

Working product with analytics, observability, and clean documentation for future team.

4

Handover

When they're ready for a full-time CTO, I prepare the transition. No lock-in, no drama.

Track record you can reference

24
Years building products
1.68M+
Critical messages delivered
6
Years zero downtime
30
Days typical to MVP

Investment-friendly pricing

Cash-efficient. Equity-light. Portfolio-scalable.

Discovery Sprint

£3,500
5-day intensive
  • ✓MVP definition & success metrics
  • ✓Technical approach & risk assessment
  • ✓Go/no-go recommendation
Perfect for due diligence support
Most Common

Fractional PM/CTO

£5–6k/mo
7–8 days/month
  • ✓Hands-on product leadership
  • ✓Architecture & delivery oversight
  • ✓Regular investor updates
Equity blend available (1–3%)

Product Rescue

From £3,250
min 5 days
  • ✓Audit stalled codebase
  • ✓Stabilise and ship
  • ✓Roadmap to recovery
For portfolio emergencies

Portfolio rates available for multiple company referrals. Happy to structure engagements around your fund's preferences.

vs. the alternatives

The Usual OptionsFractional with Prodbod
✗Wait 6 months for CTO hire✓Start shipping this week
✗Agency: £50k minimum, your problem after launch✓Ongoing ownership and iteration
✗Recruiter intros: 20% fee, no guarantee✓Direct engagement, clear outcomes
✗Junior dev + hope✓24 years of product experience
✗Founder learning to code (badly)✓Founder focusing on customers

Ken Tracy — Product Manager. Builder. Operator.

Not a consultant who writes decks. A builder who ships products. Founder of prodbod and Engage Experts. Part of the founding CallScripter team. Built platforms processing millions of transactions with 99.99% uptime. King's College London Product Management programme graduate. Based in Leeds, working globally.

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Let's get your portfolio companies shipping.

One conversation. No pitch deck required.

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Or email directly: ken@prodbod.com