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Lytton Studio provides senior product capability without the overhead of a permanent appointment. An engagement may take the form of a defined piece of work, a few days each week on retainer, or an interim chapter — long enough to change how things run, and never longer than the work deserves.
Fractional · Interim · Contract
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Day rate · Fixed fee · Retainer
The fractional model provides ongoing senior product capability, typically one to two days per week on retainer. The organisation gains a head of product's judgement at a fraction of the cost of an appointment, with priorities held steadily from week to week.
The interim model covers a gap — a departure, a restructure, a TUPE transition, or a product leader on leave. The work is stability: keeping the roadmap honest and the team supported until the permanent chapter begins.
Defined engagements include discovery sprints, process transformations, AEO and content-governance audits, and team setups. Each runs to a fixed scope with clear deliverables, on a day rate or fixed fee; the engagement skeletons below show exactly how these are structured.
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Every engagement starts with a conversation. The first step is understanding where the organisation is today. The second is shaping the work together: scope, cadence, and a shared definition of what good looks like, agreed in writing. Work then begins with a small first piece that proves the fit within weeks, and the engagement grows only if the value does.
Most AI adoption failures happen when organisations automate a broken process and simply make it break faster. The question to ask before any AI tool rollout is: what are we trying to achieve, and is the current process the right one to build on?
Good process work starts with current state, including the workarounds people have built. It means understanding the intent behind each step. Simplify the underlying process first. Then modernise the system. Then, and only then, identify where AI genuinely improves the outcome.
The goal is to free people from repetitive, error-prone work that drains motivation and invites mistakes. Most people have better things to do with their minds.
Each list is a starting point that shows how Lytton Studio approaches a type of engagement: the phases, the deliverables, and what good looks like at each stage. Get in touch to receive a copy.
A structured approach to mapping, improving, and modernising business processes — from current state through to implementation support.
A practical framework for establishing or strengthening a Product Manager, Business Analyst, Product Owner, or User Experience team — for permanent team builds or project kickoffs.