Troy, Ohio - Serving Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati
Product Strategy Consulting for Ohio Founders and Small Businesses
Ohio startups and small businesses rarely lack ideas or builders. What most lack is a clear answer to a deceptively simple question: what should we build next, and why should that matter more than everything else on the list?
Free Range Solutions is based in Troy, Ohio, 25 miles north of Dayton and within an hour of Columbus and Cincinnati. When you work with us, you are not working with a remote consultancy that has never visited Ohio.
What it actually means
Strategy that connects to execution.
What actually helps
- A clear answer to what problem we are solving and for whom, specific enough to make tradeoffs from
- A prioritized 12-month direction that accounts for your team's actual capacity and your stage of growth
- An honest audit of where your roadmap is driven by customer demand versus internal assumptions
- A plan that connects individual features to measurable business outcomes
What it is not
- A research project that ends when the report is delivered
- A long-horizon vision exercise disconnected from what you can build in the next quarter
- Advice you hire someone to give you, then hand to your team without that person in the room
Who it's for
Ohio founders at a specific inflection point.
You have traction, you have a team, and you have more ideas than you can execute. The problem is not effort. The problem is direction.
Local context
Why a local Ohio partner matters.
Most product strategy consultants are remote. A remote consultant can be excellent. But remote-only engagement has real limits. When a critical decision comes up mid-sprint, you want someone you can call who already knows your context, not someone you need to spend 20 minutes catching up to the current situation.
Troy, Ohio sits in Miami County, at the center of the triangle between Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati. We serve Ohio companies statewide, with in-person availability throughout the Miami Valley and regular travel to Columbus and Cincinnati for clients who want it.
The Dayton-area economy includes manufacturing, healthcare, defense, and a growing layer of B2B software companies that serve those industries. Columbus has a maturing startup ecosystem with strong fintech, insurtech, and logistics companies. Cincinnati has deep roots in CPG, healthcare, and consumer brands. We operate in these markets and understand what problems Ohio businesses are actually trying to solve.
How to engage
Ways to work together.
Not sure which fits? The right engagement is the one that maps to where you actually are. A first call is the right place to work that out.
8 weeks
Product Strategy Sprint
A structured engagement for companies that need strategic clarity and a concrete direction. Over 8 weeks, we audit your current product and workflow, map the bottlenecks and opportunities, assess where AI and data could apply, and deliver a prioritized 12-month roadmap with a defined KPI model and execution plan.
See detailsMonthly, ongoing
Product Advisor Retainer
Ongoing monthly engagement for founders who need a senior product thinker available on a standing basis. Works well for companies that have direction but want a check on the decisions they make along the way, before those decisions compound into bigger problems.
See details1-2 days/week
Fractional CPO
If you need someone embedded in your leadership team who owns the product org and is accountable for results. One to two days per week, embedded in your company at the executive level.
See detailsWho you're working with
Andrew Warner leads every engagement.
This is not a staffing platform or a matching service. When you work with Free Range Solutions, you work with the same person from the first conversation through the final handoff.
Learn more about Andrew and how FRS is structuredReady to talk strategy?
If you are an Ohio founder or business owner who needs strategic product clarity, the next step is a conversation. No forms that take 20 minutes. No requirements in advance. Just a direct conversation about where you are and whether we can help.