You've outgrown the founder phase. Now growth is stalling.

Most companies at this stage are moving fast — just not toward the right finish line. I build the product engine that gets Messy Middle SaaS companies through it, and makes them investable on the other side.

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Drive what matters most with a Product Operating System™

Keep your teams aligned and accelerate with confidence through a focused, adaptable system that unifies strategy, prioritization, communication, and execution.

Strategic Clarity

A shared, documented strategy that makes tradeoffs explicit and gives your team a durable system for aligning decisions to outcomes.

Predictable Execution

A disciplined operating framework and rhythm that aligns Product, Engineering, and GTM — turning inconsistent delivery into steady, measurable progress.

Prioritization You Can Defend

An objective, evidence-based model that replaces noise and urgency with clear, defensible choices about what wins, what waits, and why.

Tell me if any of this resonates with you...

Growth has stalled, and your team is busier than ever.

Revenue has plateaued, but activity hasn't. Your team is shipping, meeting, and moving, just not in the same direction. Decisions get relitigated, strategy lives in your head, and you're still the one connecting the dots.

You're still the one holding the roadmap together, and that's not sustainable.

Every week brings a new fire. Sales wants one thing, Engineering is already mid-sprint on another, and the roadmap bends to whoever's loudest. You keep the whole thing from falling apart, but it's costing you.

Your engineers are shipping faster than ever, but it's not moving the ARR needle.

AI has made your team faster. But faster in the wrong direction is just a bigger problem arriving sooner. You're building more and spending more, but the growth curve isn't responding.

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Bringing discipline and clarity to companies at the edge of traction.

When a company outgrows its founder phase, strategy gets implicit, and trade-offs stay unspoken. I help CEOs make strategy explicit, tie decisions back to intent, and build the operating rhythm that turns plans into predictable outcomes. With clarity and control at pace, organizations can accelerate without losing alignment, and become the kind of company investors and acquirers can actually underwrite.

“Great companies don’t just go faster, they know

when to shift gears and when to stay wide open.”

– Todd Etchieson

What I Bring to Messy Middle Companies

Align Strategy to Outcomes

I help leadership define a clear, shared strategy that drives decisions and eliminates silent tradeoffs.

Build Connected Operating Rhythms

I design the cadences and communication patterns that keep Product, Engineering, and GTM aligned.

Install Objective Prioritization Models

I bring a defensible, evidence-based system for what wins, what waits, and why.

Create Realistic, Capacity-Aligned Roadmaps

I build roadmaps grounded in sequencing, constraints, and commitments teams can actually deliver.

Clarify Product Definitions

I establish clear briefs, milestones, and feedback loops so everyone knows what’s being built and why.

Drive Predictable Cross-Functional Execution

I implement delivery loops and alignment mechanisms that turn motion into measurable progress.

TESTIMONIALS

What others are saying

“Todd is one of the most effective product leaders I’ve ever worked with. He creates clarity in complexity and connects strategy to execution in ways that stick.”