I'm Nate. I run product, not slide decks.

The work I've spent my career on has one through-line: making product teams ship faster without breaking what they ship. At Skillable, Pluralsight, Canopy, and Instructure I owned roadmaps, ran teams, and put product into market, not as an advisor but as the person on the hook for outcomes. One concrete example: 40% faster release velocity, 25% quality improvement. That's what shipping AI-native product looks like, not bolting AI tools on top of broken workflows.

I'm not a consultant. I don't show up with a deck and disappear. I plug in as a fractional product leader, take the roadmap, sit in the customer calls, write the PRDs, and run the sprint reviews. The same work I'd do as a full-time VP or CPO, scoped to the time you actually need. If you want a report, hire a firm. If you want product to ship, hire an operator.

The founders I want to work with are the ones who need this exact role right now. Series A and B founders running product themselves while they search for a first PM. CPOs at PE-backed portcos under a 12-month AI mandate. Both need a senior product leader on day one, not six months into a hiring cycle. And both need someone who has shipped AI products, not someone who's read about them. Fractional is what makes that math work, for them and for me.