FRACTIONAL CTO
A technical partner for founders who need someone in their corner.
You do not need a full-time CTO yet. You do need senior technical judgment before the decisions get expensive to reverse. I help founders set direction, keep development partners honest, and build the capability to own their product over time.
HOW THIS WORKS
What working together actually looks like
Four stages, not four services. You can stop after any of them.
First call
A conversation about what's actually going on, no pitch deck.
Review
Architecture, delivery and technical direction, read honestly.
Embedded oversight
Keeping the agency honest, sitting in on hiring, as long as it's useful.
Exit
You own the capability in-house. That is a good outcome, not a loss.
REVIEW
Technical direction
Turn product ambition into a plan your team can build, fund, and maintain without betting the company on a guess.
Architecture and delivery reviews
Make the decisions that are hard to reverse before they become expensive to undo.
An example of the kind of technical read a review produces: a real architecture diagram from the Lab, not a stock graphic. See the case study
EMBEDDED
OVERSIGHT
Agency oversight
Know whether the work is well scoped, well built, and moving at the pace you are paying for.
Technical hiring
Bring the right people into the room, and know how to assess the signal when you are not an engineer yourself.
SHARE AND ENJOY
Share and enjoy
Tell me what's going on. I'll come back within a business day, and if I'm not the right person for it I'll say so.