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Thirty minutes. Bring the problem, not a scope.

We’ll work out whether it’s a single advisory session, a focused review, or the start of a fractional engagement — you’ll leave with a clear next step either way.

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Who this is for

Funded teams shipping AI, scaling a platform, or both, without a senior technical owner, or with one who’s stretched too thin.

Seed → Series A

First product in production, usually with AI in it

You’re facing:

A demo investors loved and a system that breaks under real load. No senior engineer to own it.

After working together:

A production architecture, a shipping cadence, and a clear read on what to hire next.

Series A → B

Scaling the product, the platform, and the team

You’re facing:

Costs climbing, quality inconsistent, releases slowing, and no one can explain failures. The board is asking “is this reliable?”

After working together:

Evaluation and observability in place, a hardened platform, and a team that runs it independently.

Mid‑market / Enterprise

Modernizing a platform, adding AI to it

You’re facing:

A team that ships, but legacy architecture and vendor pressure make every AI decision high‑stakes.

After working together:

A modernization roadmap, build‑vs‑buy calls made, and Principal‑level cover for the technical bets.

How we work together

Two ways in, depending on where you are.

Architecture & Production Readiness Review

A focused, fixed‑scope assessment of an AI system, SaaS platform, or both. I review the codebase, architecture, data flows, security posture, production operations, and team constraints, then deliver a prioritized risk register and 90‑day remediation roadmap: what’s sound, what’s fragile, and what to do next.

The starting point for most new relationships.
For teams who need clarity before committing to ongoing help.

Fractional CTO / Principal Engineer

Ongoing embedded leadership: technical direction, architecture ownership, and shipping production code alongside your team as the system and the org grow. I also help define the team structure, hiring priorities, technical standards, and leadership handoff required to transition from fractional support to a permanent engineering organization.

For teams who want one senior technical owner, not a rotating cast of advisors.

Not sure which fits? Book a call and we’ll figure it out together. If you already know what you need, book an advisory session.

How It Works

Three steps, one conversation.

  1. 01

    Book a call

    Thirty minutes. Bring the problem you’re weighing, not a scoped project — a system that’s failing, a hire you’re unsure about, a build‑vs‑buy call.

  2. 02

    We work out the shape together

    On the call we figure out what this actually needs: a single advisory session, a focused review, or the start of a fractional engagement.

  3. 03

    You leave with a next step

    Either way — a plan, a scope, or a straight answer that it isn’t a fit. No follow‑up needed to find out where you stand.

Before the call

Come with whatever you have.

Useful, not required:

  • The system or prototype and where it’s failing
  • Team shape: who’s building it, who owns it
  • The decision you’re weighing — hire, build, buy, rewrite, ship

A track record

Built for the Fortune 100. Trusted through an acquisition.

  • Over a decade building and leading software

    Across startups, scale‑ups, and Fortune 100 environments.

  • Trusted to build for some of the world’s most recognizable brands

    Delivered product, platform, and production systems across Apple, Box, Sony, Consumer Reports, and other high‑impact organizations, including products used across the majority of the Fortune 100.

  • Production AI across multiple industries

    Led the architecture and delivery of AI systems across entertainment, healthcare, waste management and remediation, consumer, HR, and enterprise workflows.

  • Technical leadership that raises the level of the team

    Led engineering teams, set architectural direction, mentored engineers operating at Staff level and above, and helped others grow into Staff‑level roles and beyond.

  • Enterprise security and compliance readiness

    Led a company through SOC 2 while coordinating the technical controls, operational practices, security requirements, and engineering discipline needed to support enterprise customers.

  • Led ScriptSense through acquisition

    Architecture and engineering leadership through Jumpcut Media’s acquisition by Cinelytic in 2025.