Fractional CTO for non-technical founders
The technical co-founder you didn't get.
Senior engineering leadership for non-technical founders who have raised money and cannot afford to guess on tech. I own the architecture, hiring, and AI calls a seasoned operator gets right, so you do not have to.
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 founders who raise a round are not engineers. You are trusting a dev team you cannot fully evaluate, on the decisions that will make or break the company. I am the senior technical partner who sits on your side of the table, owns the calls a CTO should own, and tells you the truth about what is really going on under the hood.
Typical engagement: 8 to 12 hours per week, three-month minimum. I am in your standups, your Slack, your hiring loop, and your architecture decisions. You get a senior technologist's judgement without the $400K salary, the equity grant, or the recruiting cycle.
Most engagements start with a paid technical audit. You get a clear read on your architecture, team, and roadmap in the first two weeks, and we both decide if it is a fit before committing further.
Capped engagements. I take a small handful at a time so the founders I work with get my full attention.
What you get
- ›Know whether your architecture will survive the next 10x of growth, before it breaks
- ›Hire engineers who actually deliver, and stop overpaying for the ones who do not
- ›Give your dev team or agency a senior they answer to and can learn from
- ›Cut cloud, tooling, and build-vs-buy spend you did not know you were wasting
- ›Turn "we should do AI" into something that ships and pays off, not AI theatre
Who it's for
- ›Non-technical founders who have raised a seed to Series B round and have no CTO
- ›Founders trusting a dev team or agency they cannot fully evaluate on their own
- ›Teams adding AI to their product and unsure what good actually looks like
Not the right fit for technical co-founders. If you can run engineering yourself, you do not need me.
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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