AI PRODUCT MANAGEMENT FOR PHYSICAL AI
Turn a technically promising system into a dependable product.
Work with a Fractional CPO, Interim Head of Product or senior product leader across strategy, discovery, development, productization, launch and transition—for products, product families, platforms and two-sided ecosystems.
17+ years across Cisco, Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi and ABB · Based in Delft · Working across Europe
Leadership scope
From an independent expert review to temporary CPO-level ownership, the scope is written around the decision, milestone or transition your organisation actually needs.
Buyer situations
Each one is a product decision. Engineering progress alone will not resolve any of them.
The system demonstrates well. What customers buy, at what price, and with what obligations is still open.
Explore the Product Decision ReviewOne site went well. Nobody can yet state what has to be true for the next ten to go the same way.
Explore the Product Leadership MissionEach decision is defensible on its own. Together they no longer describe one product.
Explore the Product Leadership MissionProduct direction is settled in engineering reviews because nobody else owns it.
Explore the Executive Product LeadershipThe date is fixed. The evidence behind go, redirect, sequence or stop is not yet assembled.
Explore the Product Decision ReviewThe mandate is real, the hire is months away, and the decisions cannot wait for it.
Explore the Executive Product LeadershipThree engagement families · four buyer doors
Choose one independent decision, one named product or platform milestone, recurring Fractional CPO ownership, or time-bounded Interim Head of Product leadership. Each mandate stands alone.
Decision
You need to decide what happens next.
Independent senior product expert
Make one consequential product decision with evidence.
Duration
Two to three weeks.
Milestone
You need a senior owner for the next product milestone.
Senior / Principal Product Lead
Lead one product, platform, product family or launch to a named evidence gate.
Duration
Milestone-based, with scope and acceptance criteria agreed in writing.
Ongoing leadership
You need senior product leadership now, but not yet a permanent executive.
Fractional CPO · Interim Head of Product
Executive ownership across strategy, discovery, development, launch, portfolio and transition.
Duration
Recurring part-time mandate; authority, cadence and capacity agreed in writing.
Every engagement has a written decision, evidence gate, authority boundary, stop condition and handover owner. None requires a follow-on engagement.
Decision Lab · runnable · inspectable
A flagship Physical AI reference implementation, a measured embodied-AI feasibility bench and one bounded client mandate—each classified for what it proves and what it does not.
Pre-production · owned reference implementation · internal R&D
Auralink is Hyperion's owned pre-production reference implementation. Inspect the architecture, control boundaries, operational decisions and evaluation approach behind the method.
Measured · simulated · internal R&D
Inspect the measured feasibility work behind the bench — physical sensing, teleoperation, evaluation and learned behaviour. Every figure is labelled measured, simulation or dry-run.
Measured
Simulation
On-robot, dry-run
These are Hyperion-owned research and engineering artefacts. They are not customer deployments or commercial outcome evidence.
Relationships · classified
These marks represent founder career, advisory work, memberships and affiliations. They do not represent Hyperion clients.
Berkeley SkyDeck Key Advisor (October 2022 – Present)
Appointments and bodies Mohammed belongs to — not client relationships.
Industrial & Physical AI Product Leadership
Industry fluency is not a list of standards or use cases. It is the ability to draw the physical system, expose where product ownership fractures, and connect operator reality to evidence and economics.
All industries
From a capable cell or model to a repeatable product for real lines and operators
Open the decision dossier
One product boundary across vehicle, platform, market and post-sale operation
Open the decision dossier
Whole-fleet reliability, field operations and economics—not model performance alone
Open the decision dossierHyperion Physical AI Product System
Five gates govern when a product may advance. Six lenses test whether the evidence meets the threshold for the current decision: value, economics, intelligence, architecture, trust and operations.
Cyclical, not a waterfall: evidence, incidents or economics can send a product back to an earlier stage.
Customer and operator value
Business model and product economics
AI, data, evaluation and human-machine interaction
Hardware, software and system architecture
Safety, cybersecurity, governance, compliance and human oversight
Deployment, operations, product family, partners and ecosystem
Inside the system, DecisionOps keeps each decision current: it names the decision, the evidence threshold, the owner and the next gate. It is a supporting discipline within an engagement, not a separate offer or platform.
Selected Insights
Deep Tech · Flagship
An evidence-led guide to local LLM evaluation on AMD Ryzen AI Max and Strix Halo with Ollama, LM Studio and llama.cpp on Ubuntu 24.04—plus what must be measured before an industrial product decision.
By Mohammed Cherifi · July 18, 2026
You work directly with Mohammed — a product leader across connected platforms, mobility, industrial systems and AI, now focused on Physical AI products.
Cisco → RNM Alliance → ABB → Hyperion
Fit
Hyperion owns the product leadership mandate and only the hands-on work explicitly named in scope. Your team retains enduring ownership of the product and broader delivery. Legal advice, conformity assessment, penetration testing and full functional-safety work remain with qualified specialists.
Hire when the mandate is stable, the role is permanent and you can wait for the right person. Use Hyperion when the immediate decision cannot wait, the permanent role is not yet clear, or you need evidence before adding long-term capacity. The engagement can also define the decision rights and hiring brief your team will retain.
In a 30-minute fit call, we will identify the decision, the missing evidence and whether Hyperion is the right mandate — or say plainly that it is not.
Mohammed leads every engagement personally. Scope and capacity are confirmed before work is accepted.
30 minutes · no obligation