Consulting and product leadership

Two lines of work. GrafStack helps newsrooms structure their journalism for AI search, licensing, and agents. Product consulting helps any team plan the work and lead delivery.

For publishers4-week audit

GrafStack

Your journalism, structured for AI search, licensing, and agents. The AI Editorial Workflow Audit shows where your gaps cost you.

  1. Crawl and score of your public content
  2. Review of your CMS content model and workflow
  3. Gap map across seven layers and a prioritized roadmap
For product and content teams

Product consulting

Plan the work, then lead delivery when you need extra capacity.

  1. Plan Editorial workflow and platform strategy
  2. Plan Product strategy and AI planning
  3. Lead Interim product leadership

Where they meet. A GrafStack roadmap often turns into workflow and platform planning. Either line can lead into interim leadership.

Line 1 · For publishers

AI Editorial Workflow Audit

Four weeks. Fixed fee. A clear roadmap at the end.

Who it's for

Newsrooms losing traffic, attribution, and reader trust as AI answer engines use their reporting. GrafStack sits on top of the CMS you run today.

What you receive

  • Crawl and score of your public content against the GrafStack rubric
  • Review of your CMS content model and editorial workflow
  • Assessment of AI bot traffic, robots.txt rules, and rights declarations
  • Gap map across all seven layers
  • Prioritized roadmap with effort estimates

How the engagement works

Four weeks. Fixed fee. A clear roadmap at the end.

Line 2 · For product and content teams

Product consulting

Most engagements start with one question: what should change first? I help you answer the question, plan the work, and lead delivery when you need extra capacity.

Editorial workflow and platform strategy

Who it's for

Publishers and content organizations deciding how editorial work should move through their tools, and which platforms to keep, replace, or consolidate.

What you receive

  • Workflow and platform decisions
  • Vendor evaluation
  • 90-day roadmap

How the engagement works

We agree on scope, access, timing, and deliverables before work begins.

Product strategy and AI planning

Who it's for

Product teams in any industry that need to decide which opportunities to pursue, including where AI fits and where it does not.

What you receive

  • Prioritized opportunities
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Dependencies
  • Product roadmap

How the engagement works

We agree on scope, access, timing, and deliverables before work begins.

Interim product leadership

Who it's for

Organizations in transition that need an experienced product leader now: startups before a first product hire, nonprofits without in-house product leadership, and teams between leaders.

What you receive

  • Agreed responsibilities
  • Priorities
  • Delivery cadence

How the engagement works

We agree on scope, access, timing, and deliverables before work begins.

How engagements work

I Listen Before I Talk

I don't show up with a one-size-fits-all solution. We start by understanding what's actually broken, who's involved, and what you can realistically change. A strategy is only useful if it works with your team and budget.

We Figure It Out Together

You know your business better than I do. I know what's worked elsewhere. We combine that knowledge to build something that fits your situation.

Everything Has to Work Monday Morning

We focus on systems and habits that make your team better at making product decisions. If it doesn't work with the people and budget you have right now, we don't do it.

Startups and nonprofits

Smaller teams get the same thinking, scaled to their runway and budget.

For Startups

Build the right thing for the right people before you run out of runway.

Work with startups

For Nonprofits

Technology and product decisions that serve your mission and fit your budget.

Work with nonprofits

Speaking

Practical talks and facilitated sessions for product, editorial, and technology teams.

  • How to Build Products When You Can't Afford a Product Manager
  • Why Your Roadmap Falls Apart Every Quarter (And How to Fix It)
  • Making Product Decisions When Everyone Has Opinions
  • Building Your First Product Team on a Startup Budget
  • Actually Talking to Customers (And Using What You Learn)
  • Practical AI Decisions for Publishers: What to Change First
Discuss speaking

Tell me what your team is working on.

Share your priorities and what stands in the way. We'll talk through whether a focused engagement or ongoing support makes sense.

Discuss your priorities