II The Practice

Fractional CTO
& Advisory.

Senior technical leadership on demand, for founders who need conviction, not just code. We sit close enough to the metal to catch what a slide deck won't show you.

10+Years senior eng leadership
4Ventures built from this practice
1Point of technical accountability
Engine 01Feeds directly into the Development Studio
01 Engagements

Four ways in,
one standard.

Every engagement is staffed by the same senior operator who built and owns the ventures below, not a rotating bench of consultants.

01

Fractional CTO Leadership

Embedded technical ownership: architecture calls, hiring decisions, and the roadmap accountability a non-technical founder can't fake.

Roadmap & architecture ownership
Engineering hiring & team structure
Vendor and tool selection
Board & investor technical narrative

02

AI Strategy

Where AI actually moves the P&L versus where it's a demo. We've shipped it inside our own products, not just advised on it.

Model & vendor selection
Workflow automation design
Build-vs-buy for AI tooling
Cost & latency tradeoffs

03

Software Architecture

Systems designed to survive contact with real usage, and real growth, without a rewrite eighteen months in.

Greenfield system design
Scaling & performance audits
Data model & infra decisions
Security & compliance posture

04

Technical Due Diligence

For investors and acquirers who need an honest read on what's actually been built before the money moves.

Codebase & architecture review
Team & process assessment
Risk & tech-debt scoring
Post-acquisition integration plan

02 How It Runs

From first call
to shipped decision.

Week 0

Technical audit

We read the codebase, the team, and the roadmap before we say a word about strategy. Most engagements surface at least one decision that's quietly costing six figures.

Week 1–2

Conviction, in writing

A short, direct point of view on architecture, hiring, and sequencing: the kind of document a board can actually act on.

Ongoing

Embedded cadence

Weekly technical leadership, real-time availability for the calls that can't wait, and direct involvement in hiring and architecture decisions as they happen.

Exit

A team that doesn't need us

The engagement is done when your internal team can own what we built together, not when the retainer runs out.

03 Where It Shows Up

The advisory isn't theoretical.
We run it on our own ventures too.

Every recommendation we make has already been stress-tested inside a product we own. That's the difference between advice and experience.

DivvyRight
In development

DivvyRight: architecture built for compliance from day one

Financial-adjacent products can't bolt on compliance after the fact. The technical architecture, audit trails, and data model were designed around regulatory requirements before a line of product UI existed. It's the same discipline we bring to advisory clients handling sensitive data.

FintechData architectureCompliance
PickNPray
In market

PickNPray: scaling a live consumer product without a rewrite

Real-time leaderboards, concurrent user load, and a growing user base meant the original architecture had to hold under pressure. This is the same scaling audit and infrastructure judgment we bring to due-diligence and advisory engagements.

ConsumerReal-time systemsScale

Need conviction
on your next technical decision?

Start with a technical audit. Most engagements begin there.

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