One Knight Consulting helps software companies make better product investment decisions, identify new growth opportunities and build the capability to execute them.
Whether you need to stabilise a product organisation, evaluate AI opportunities, productise services, improve strategic alignment or launch a new product initiative, the work starts with understanding where growth is being blocked and what capability is needed to unlock it.
Fractional CPO & Product Leadership
Senior product leadership for companies that need clearer direction, stronger decision-making and better execution.
Useful when:
- Product lacks senior leadership
- Priorities are unclear
- Leadership teams are misaligned
- Delivery is busy but not creating enough impact
- A permanent product leader needs to be hired or onboarded
- The organisation needs a practical operating model
Outcome: Better product investment decisions, stronger organisational alignment and a sustainable product capability that can support future growth.
Product, Growth & Organisational Assessments
A structured diagnostic into how the company makes product decisions, where growth is being constrained and what needs to change.
Process:
- Review strategic, commercial, product and organisational documentation
- Interview leadership, functional leads and relevant team members
- Assess product capability, decision-making, prioritisation, delivery flow and organisational constraints
- Identify untapped growth opportunities and barriers to execution
- Present prioritised recommendations to the leadership team
Outcome: Shared visibility of organisational constraints, growth opportunities and prioritised actions to improve performance.
Growth & AI Opportunity Reviews
A focused review to identify practical growth and AI opportunities worth pursuing.
This is not AI hype, prompt training or generic theatre. It is a structured review of where AI, automation, productisation or new product development could create meaningful business value.
Useful when:
- Leadership knows AI matters but lacks clarity on where to invest
- A services business wants to productise expertise
- A software business needs new revenue streams
- Existing product investment is not generating enough return
- The company needs to distinguish credible opportunities from distractions
Outcome: Executive alignment around the most promising growth opportunities and a clear view of where AI can create meaningful business value.
Leadership Coaching & Workshops
Practical support for founders, product leaders and leadership teams who need to make better strategic decisions under pressure.
Can include:
- Product strategy workshops
- Prioritisation and trade-off workshops
- Product leadership coaching
- Founder / product leader sparring
- Team alignment sessions
- Product operating model workshops
Outcome: Better strategic judgement, clearer trade-offs and stronger alignment across the leaders responsible for product investment decisions.
Talks & Team Sessions
Focused talks and facilitated sessions for teams that need practical product leadership perspectives grounded in real organisational complexity.
Topics may include:
- Product strategy under pressure
- Moving beyond feature-factory delivery
- Product leadership in software companies
- AI, product and organisational change
- Productising services
- Better product investment decisions
Outcome: Shared understanding, stronger alignment and practical ideas teams can apply immediately.