24/7 on-call (different service — need a managed-service vendor). Greenfield product discovery without a working hypothesis (need a Sprint first). Anything requiring a US security clearance. Pure-strategy advisory with no hands-on building (I make more building than advising).

Offer 04 · Agentic Product Retainer

Agentic Product Retainer — Fractional CPO + Architect, Embedded

Senior product leadership for your AI line, without the FTE risk. 2–4 days/week embedded as your fractional CPO + Architect. Roadmap, architecture decisions, code review, hands-on builds when scope demands. Replaces a $1.2M/yr Principal PM + Staff Engineer + Lead Designer triad. 90-day exit, 14-month average duration.

Replaces a $1.2M/yr Principal PM + Staff Eng + Lead Designer triad
14-month average engagement duration
Ayraxs delivery bench when scope demands

$15–30K/moFractional CPO + Architect2–4 days/week90-day exit

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Agentic Product Retainer — agentic product retainer

Who this is for

You're a Seed–Series B AI-first startup with PMF signals but not enough volume to justify a full-time Principal PM + Architect + Lead Engineer (~$1.2M/yr loaded).
You're a mid-market company adding agentic AI as a major workflow but not your core differentiation. You have an engineering team but no one senior who's shipped agents to production.
You're post-rescue with a working agentic system and need ongoing tuning, eval expansion, and model-deprecation handling that your current team doesn't own.

What's included monthly

✓2–4 days/week embedded with your team (your sprint cadence).
✓Architecture decisions + code review on every agentic system.
✓Hands-on builds when scope demands (with Ayraxs delivery bench scaling as needed).
✓Weekly written status + monthly written reliability report (your board will read this).
✓Eval harness ownership + expansion — I keep it current as your product evolves.
✓Model-deprecation handling: when Anthropic/OpenAI/Google sunset a model, your agent doesn't silently break.
✓Direct Slack access to me during business hours.
✓Quarterly architecture review + roadmap session with your leadership.

How a Retainer runs

Month 1
Embed + assess
Codebase walkthrough, team rituals, system inventory. End of month: written health report on your agentic line + top-3 priorities for the next 90 days.
Months 2–3
Execute + tune
Ship priority work. Add evals. Tune costs. Handle the first model release that breaks something. Build the muscle.
Months 4+
Ongoing rhythm
Weekly sprint cadence, monthly reliability report, quarterly architecture review. 90-day cancellation notice at any time.

How I work inside a Retainer

LangGraphLangSmithMCPEval harnessesArchitecture reviewsRoadmap planningHands-on coding when scope demands

I don't replace your engineering team — I add senior judgment they don't have yet. Most weeks: 2 days of architecture/review/planning, 2 days hands-on building or eval expansion. I bring Ayraxs talent bench in when your roadmap needs more hands than mine. The product stays under your team's ownership; I'm a force multiplier, not a replacement.

Retainer engagements

Series B SaaS — post-rescue retainer

$9K/mo, 4mo and running, eval suite ownership

Read case study →

Fintech outbound automation retainer

Ongoing tuning + new agent line additions

Read case study →

How pricing works

This offerAgentic Product Retainer

Starting at$15,000

Typical timelineMonthly · 3-month minimum

Tier range$15,000 – $30,000 / month

What drives the price up

Days per week embedded (2 vs 3 vs 4)
Whether the Ayraxs delivery bench is on standby for scope spikes
SLA expectations (business hours vs same-day response)
Travel / on-site requirements (otherwise fully async/remote)

Base tier ($15K/mo) is 2 days/week embedded. Mid tier ($22K/mo) is 3 days/week + Ayraxs bench on standby. Premium tier ($30K/mo) is 4 days/week + same-day response SLA. 3-month minimum (anything shorter is a Sprint). 90-day cancellation notice thereafter — you're never locked in.

✦FAQs

Common questions
about this offer

Real questions from real scoping calls. If yours isn't here, book a 30-min call and we'll figure it out together.

Retainer vs hiring full-time?

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Hiring a Principal Product Engineer with agentic AI experience in 2026 costs $400–550K loaded annually, takes 10–14 weeks to ramp, and has 1-year average tenure at that seniority. A Retainer is $180–360K/year, productive on day 1, with a 90-day exit. For most companies <Series C, the Retainer is the right shape until your agentic AI work is genuinely 1.0+ FTE.

What's NOT included?

Can I start with a Sprint and convert?

What if I need to scale up or down quickly?

Do you take a Board seat or equity?

Related offers

✦Pricing & Plans

Four Offer Tiers.
One Architect.

Below: three of the four. The fourth — Production Audit + Rescue ($3.5K → $25–80K) — is the entry-tier banner above. Pick what matches your situation: validating, building, fixing, or scaling.

Vibe-Built MVP

$15–30Kfixed

Ship your AI product in 3 weeks.

For solo founders with an AI idea and no team. Working MVP with real auth, real database, real users — hosted, payment-ready, repo in your GitHub. Not a Streamlit demo. Differentiated by 8 years of design + product chops; my MVPs ship polished, not ugly.

✓Working AI product, real auth + DB
✓Full front-end (Next.js / React) + back-end
✓LLM integration with eval scaffolding
✓Stripe payment if you are validating pricing
✓Posthog or GA4 analytics baked in
✓Hosted demo URL for design partners
✓Source code in your GitHub org from day one
✓30 days of bug-fix support

Start a Vibe-Built MVP

AI Product Sprint

$30–60Kfixed

I become your fractional founder for 6 weeks.

Discovery, spec, architecture, UX, and the build — end to end. Replaces a 4-contractor team ($115K typical) for half the cost, with zero handoff failures. Best for funded founders shipping a real AI product, not slideware. Solo or with Ayraxs talent bench when scope demands.

✓Week 0: scope lock 1-pager (free)
✓Week 1: discovery + architecture memo
✓Weeks 2–3: build sprints with Friday demos
✓Week 4: hardening + UX polish
✓Week 5–6: HITL layer + handoff (if scope)
✓Eval harness with 25–30 golden tests
✓LangSmith tracing + cost dashboards
✓Architecture doc, runbook, team training
✓30 days post-launch bug-fix support
✓Milestone payment 30 / 30 / 40 — no prepay

Book a Sprint scoping call

Agentic Product Retainer

$15–30K/mo90-day exit

Fractional CPO + Architect, embedded.

Senior product leadership for your AI line, without the FTE risk. 2–4 days/week embedded. Replaces a $1.2M/yr Principal PM + Staff Engineer + Lead Designer triad. 14-month average duration; most engagements convert from a Sprint or a Rescue.

✓2–4 days/week embedded
✓Architecture decisions + code review on agents
✓Hands-on builds with Ayraxs bench as needed
✓Weekly written status + monthly reliability report
✓Eval harness ownership + expansion
✓Model-deprecation handling (worth the fee alone)
✓Direct Slack access to me
✓3-month minimum, 90-day exit thereafter

Scope a Retainer

All engagements are fixed-price after a 20-min scoping call · Milestone-based payment · 90-day exits · Pakistan-based, working globally · Local-market pilot tier available — DM for terms.

Ready to start?

30-minute call, no pitch deck. We'll figure out whether this is the right fit — and if it isn't, I'll point you to someone it is.

Book a scoping call

Or email tayyabjaved0786@gmail.com

Pakistan-based · working globally · 4 offer tiers · Fortune 500 outcomes at 40–60% of US agency cost · Local-market pilot tier available — DM for terms