Strategic Product & UX Advisor for leaders making expensive product decisions

Product and UX critique for leaders making costly decisions.

Advisory for founders, CEOs, and product leaders who need a senior product and UX sounding board. I review decisions, critique product logic, sharpen tradeoffs, and write memos, without joining your team cadence or owning execution.

Where this is most useful

  • Founders and CEOs who want a senior product/UX critic without adding management overhead
  • Product leaders who need an external professor-style critique of logic, rationale, and tradeoffs
  • Teams that need decision quality more than execution ownership
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Scope and investment

Billed monthly upfront. Advisory does not include joining rituals, managing people, owning cadence, or being on call inside daily team operations.

Recommended

Product & UX Advisor

2-month minimum

Founder or product-leader sounding board, bounded calls, async critique, 3-business-day response target.

Investment
AED 12K-15K/month

Executive Product & UX Advisor

3-month minimum

Higher-availability executive counsel, memos, roadmap critique, 1-business-day response target.

Investment
AED 18K-25K/month
How it works Book a 15-minute call. I confirm the scope, timeline, access needs, and commercial model, then send a written proposal.

What changes the scope

  • Response-time expectations
  • Frequency of calls, memos, and async reviews
  • Whether the work is founder sounding board or higher-touch executive counsel
  • Urgency and commercial stakes of the decisions being reviewed

Engagement boundary

Think professor during a design critique: close enough to understand the rationale, independent enough to challenge the logic, and outside the day-to-day mechanics of how the work was produced.

Engagement shape

1
Monthly
Prepaid monthly retainer, scoped to the selected advisory band
2
Product & UX Advisor
Bounded calls and async critique with 3-business-day response target
3
Executive Product & UX Advisor
Higher-touch advisory with 1-business-day response target and more frequent decision support

Not for

  • Daily Slack availability or on-call execution support
  • Owning team rituals, cadence, or people management
  • Design production or staff augmentation

Next step

If advisory starts turning into operating ownership, the cleaner scope is Fractional Product & UX Leadership.

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Common Questions

How is this different from Fractional Product & UX Leadership?
Strategic Advisor is critique, counsel, and decision support. Fractional Product & UX Leadership is when you want me closer to the team, operating cadence, and delivery system.
What does monthly upfront mean?
It means the month is prepaid before the advisory period starts; it does not mean the full term is paid upfront unless we agree otherwise.
How much async access is included?
The Product & UX Advisor band is bounded and should not exceed roughly 1 to 1.5 working days per week. The Executive band has faster response and more availability, but still is not on-call team execution.

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Deliverables

  • Scheduled advisory calls and product/UX critique
  • Async review of roadmaps, decks, flows, specs, and product decisions
  • Decision memos or written critique when the issue needs synthesis
  • Founder or executive sounding-board support for hiring, prioritization, and strategic tradeoffs
Book a call
Limited availability for Q3 2026.
Based in Dubai, serving UAE & GCC.