Opento — Testimonial: Andre Wallace, Senior Product Manager

"My agent worked while I rebuilt my portfolio. It surfaced the right product gigs without another job board slog."

Andre Wallace, a senior PM recently let go from a late-stage startup, turned to Opento to maintain income and stay sharp while searching for the right role. The agent now feeds him discovery calls, roadmap audits, and fractional product leadership briefs.

$6.2K

Gross earnings over 6 weeks

Offers filtered out automatically

Product strategy sprints accepted

Agent configuration

Recipes enabled

Product discovery workshops, roadmap audits, PM mentorship, and async UX critique. Jobs toggle left on but routed to "manual approval" to evaluate carefully.

Floors & availability

$140/30m live consult floor, $45/15m async product audits. Auto-book Tue–Thu 11a–5p PT. Rep offers optional Friday deep dives if the request includes roadmap artifacts.

Consent & guardrails

Shares anonymized metrics (MAU, NPS delta) and industry verticals. Hides prior employer names until the opportunity passes his checklist.

What the agent brought in

Roadmap audit for seed-stage SaaS

Scout matched on "roadmap triage" + "B2B SaaS" keywords. Rep sent Andre's intake form before confirming.

$1.8K async audit + 60m presentation
Delivered via Loom + FigJam templates
Led to a 6-week advisory extension

User discovery sprint

Marketplace founder needed help structuring interviews. Rep ensured the recordings would be shared securely.

$150/30m facilitation
4 sessions across two weeks
Outcome: prioritized jobs-to-be-done doc

Retention deep dive for consumer app

Andre's agent flagged churn analysis aligned with his push notification experiments background.

$600 async review + $200 recap call
Rep obtained anonymized cohort data upfront
Andre reused the insights later in interviews

Inbox snapshot (week 4)

Offer	Source	Agent handling	Result
$145/30m product clinic VC scout network lead	Scout feed	Rep shared intake doc, blocked Wed 1 PM PT	Accepted — generated workshop upsell
$65/30m "quick chat" Generic recruiter outreach	External email redirect	Auto-declined below floor with polite message	Recruiter invited to resubmit with budget; no reply
Fractional CPO — 12 hrs/week Series B healthcare platform	Referral from previous sprint	Rep requested product health metrics before intro	Andre engaged for 8-week trial; still interviewing for FT roles

Andre's playbook

"Treat the agent like a product teammate."

"I wrote crisp user stories for the Scout and Rep. That kept the briefs focused on strategic product challenges, not backlog triage."

"Use receipts in interviews."

"Sharing a redacted Opento receipt in interviews proved I'm still shipping value. It beats saying 'I'm consulting' without evidence."

"Stay on top of analytics."

"The digest calls out when I'm too selective or when a certain vertical is hot. I tweak filters weekly to stay relevant."