Stop Guessing.
Start Shipping the Right Thing.

Intelligent Ignition delivers on-demand product management expertise — so your team builds with confidence, ships on time, and grows without hiring a $200K executive.

Trusted by pre-seed founders, scaling startups, and Series A/B product teams.

Product management team collaborating on strategy

Which of these sounds like you?

You're building but not sure it's the right thing.

Your roadmap is driven by gut instinct — not validated assumptions or real user data.

Your engineers are blocked or building blind.

Sprints are chaotic, tickets are vague, and deadlines keep slipping.

You've outgrown "founder as PM."

You have a team, paying customers, and real complexity — but no senior product leader to own the strategy.

Whatever stage you're in, we have a plan built for it.

Expert product management, delivered as a service.

1

Choose Your Plan

Pick the plan that matches your stage — Spark for early validation, Ignite for scaling delivery, Blaze for executive-level leadership.

2

We Integrate with Your Team

Your dedicated product manager embeds into your workflow — your Slack, your tools, your cadences. No onboarding headaches.

3

Your Product Moves Forward

Validated roadmaps. Engineers unblocked. Stakeholders aligned. You focus on leading — we handle the product operations.

Pick your plan. Ship the right thing.

Every plan is flat-rate, monthly, and built around where you are — not where you wish you were.

Spark

$1,900/mo

Stop building features nobody asked for. Find your market fit first.

For: Pre-seed and seed-stage founders with no dedicated PM

  • PMF Scorecard — track product-market fit across 5 dimensions monthly
  • 3–5 structured customer discovery interviews per month
  • Hypothesis-driven roadmap — test assumptions, not feature wishlists
  • Monthly Insight Summary with direct user quotes
  • Feature prioritization session (60 min/month, using WSJF framework)
  • Weekly check-in via written update + async video
  • Investor product narrative — pitch deck product section always current
  • ICP Refinement and Assumption Map updates every month
Get the Spark Plan →

Blaze

$10,500/mo

Get a CPO-caliber product leader — without the $300K executive overhead.

For: Series A/B companies with an existing PM team that needs fractional CPO-level leadership

  • Fractional Head of Product — owns the vision, team direction, and portfolio strategy
  • Weekly or bi-weekly 1:1 coaching for up to 3 internal PMs
  • Portfolio roadmap governance with dependency mapping and trade-off decisions
  • Monthly executive & board-level product reporting (deck + live presentation)
  • Product Ops implementation — standardized PRD templates, rituals, and tooling
  • Cross-functional GTM support with marketing and sales
  • Quarterly OKR facilitation aligned to company revenue goals
  • Quarterly strategic competitive deep dive
  • Hiring support — job descriptions, interview rubrics, and candidate debriefs
  • Transition planning to a full-time CPO when ready
Get the Blaze Plan →

Have a unique structure or multi-product complexity? We occasionally take on custom engagements. Talk to us →

Senior product expertise. Fractional cost. Real outcomes.

Without Intelligent Ignition With Intelligent Ignition
Building based on founder intuition Building based on validated user evidence
Engineers blocked waiting for clear requirements PRDs ready before every sprint begins
Roadmap = whatever was discussed last Stakeholder-approved 6-month roadmap, updated bi-weekly
CEO still acting as the bottleneck CPO Dedicated fractional executive owns the product vision
Board updates lack a strategic product narrative Data-driven executive product reporting monthly
Hiring a full-time PM burns runway Senior PM expertise at 10% of the hiring cost

Free tools for product-led founders.

Guide

The PMaaS Buyer's Guide — Know what to look for before outsourcing product management.

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Template

Product Hypothesis Roadmap Template — Map your assumptions, not just your features.

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PMF Scorecard Explained — How to Know When You're Ready to Scale

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Quick answers.

It's a managed service — a real, senior product manager embedded in your team. No platform to set up.

Most clients are matched and onboarded within 5 business days of selecting a plan.

Yes. The plans are designed to graduate with you — Spark → Ignite → Blaze as your company scales.

Not at all. Building or validating your roadmap is core to every plan.

We work inside your systems — Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Slack, FigJam — nothing locked behind a vendor.

Your product deserves a real plan. Let’s build it.

Whether you’re pre-seed and searching for market fit or Series B and scaling a portfolio — Intelligent Ignition has a plan for exactly where you are right now.