Fractional CTO · AI Advisor
Senior technical leadership, without the full-time hire.
I work alongside founders at YC, Series A, and Series B startups — owning architecture, hiring, AI integration, and the calls only a seasoned operator gets right.
Three operator exits. Advisor to 30+ founders. 25 years building.
Track Record
Three operator exits. 25 years building.
0 → 2M users in 9 months
Media company — acquired
Built and scaled a gaming platform
Acquired by Sony
#1 grossing iOS app across 25 countries
Backed by a16z
The Engagement
Fractional CTO, embedded in your team.
Most early-stage teams need a CTO long before they can afford one. I fill that gap. I sit alongside your founders and product team, own the technical calls a senior operator should own, and unblock the ones your engineers can't make alone.
Typical engagement: 8–12 hours per week, three-month minimum. I'm in your standups, your slack, your hiring loop, and your architecture decisions. You get a senior technologist's judgement without the $400K salary, equity grant, or recruiting cycle.
Capped engagements. I take a small handful at a time so the founders I work with get my full attention.
What you get
- ›Weekly architecture and roadmap review with your founders or product lead
- ›Hands-on hiring help — JDs, sourcing, technical interviews, offer calls
- ›Code-level mentorship for your senior engineers
- ›Vendor, infrastructure, and build-vs-buy calls
- ›AI integration strategy — what to ship, what to skip, what to defer
Who it's for
- ›Pre-seed and seed founders without a CTO who need someone in the room before the wrong architectural call gets baked in
- ›Series A and B teams whose first technical hire needs a senior counterweight
- ›Growth-stage companies adding AI to existing product and deciding what good looks like
The Book
AI Alpha
How PE Firms Find and Capture the Hidden AI Value in Every Portfolio Company. Written for operators and investors who need to move from AI theatre to AI EBITDA. The diagnostic framework works just as well inside a startup.
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