Four Ways to Work With Me
I've deliberately kept this list short. In 2026, anyone can generate software. The scarce skills are knowing what to build, making it survive production, and owning the outcome. That's what I sell.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you to someone who is.
Service 1: Fractional CTO (with an AI Mandate)
I own your technology strategy. In 2026, that means owning your AI strategy too.
Startups don't need a full-time CTO at $250K+. They need someone accountable for the technical outcome a few days a week. I join your leadership team and own:
- AI strategy you can defend to a board: which tools are genuinely useful vs. well-marketed, build-vs-buy calls, realistic unit economics, and a responsible-adoption framework.
- Architecture & scaling decisions aligned with your runway, not your engineers' résumés.
- Team leverage: hiring, mentoring, and retooling your existing developers around AI-assisted workflows so a team of three ships like a team of six.
- Investor & due-diligence readiness. I've raised, pitched, and won on stage. I speak both languages.
Engagement: Monthly retainer, typically 6 to 24 months. Not a slide-deck relationship. I attend your meetings, make decisions, and answer for the results.
Service 2: AI Agents & LLM Integration
Autonomous agents, RAG systems, and agentic workflow automation, designed, built, and hardened for production.
Demos are easy. Production is where agents break: hallucinations in front of customers, runaway token costs, brittle tool-calling, missing evals. I build agents the way an operator does, because I run one in a live SaaS product.
What I deliver:
- Agent and RAG architecture (Vertex AI, Claude, OpenAI, chosen for your case rather than my affiliation)
- LLM integration into existing products and workflows
- Agentic automation across your ops stack (n8n, MCP, custom pipelines)
- Evals, guardrails, observability, and cost engineering from day one
Engagement: Fixed-scope build or build-then-retainer.
Service 3: AI Code Rescue & Production Hardening (NEW)
You vibe-coded an MVP and it worked, until it didn't. I make AI-generated codebases secure, scalable, and investor-ready.
Nearly half of AI-generated code ships with security vulnerabilities. If your app was built by prompts (by you, a no-code platform, or a cheap agency) and you're now facing outages, security questions from customers, or a technical due-diligence request, this is the fix.
Service 4: Product Engineering, MVP to Scale
Full-stack and mobile product development, AI-accelerated, priced on outcomes instead of headcount.
When you need the thing actually built: web platforms (SvelteKit, Node, Go), cross-platform mobile (Flutter), and cloud architecture (GCP, Firebase). I use AI-assisted development the way it should be used: a senior engineer directing the tools and reviewing every line that matters. That means 2023-agency timelines and prices no longer apply.
- Investor-ready MVPs in weeks, not quarters
- Scaling and re-architecture for products that outgrew their v1
- Interim engineering leadership during a build
Engagement: Fixed-price scope or milestone-based.
Entry Offer: AI Readiness Audit (fixed price)
Not sure where to start? In two weeks I'll assess your product, stack, data, and team against your AI ambitions and hand you a prioritized, costed roadmap. One you can execute with me or without me.
Deliverable: Written report + architecture recommendation + 90-day plan + a working-session walkthrough.
Who I work with: Funded startups (pre-seed to Series B), SMBs adopting AI seriously, and founders who inherited technical decisions they need a partner on. If you want a big-agency logo on the invoice, I'm not it. If you want the person who wins the pitch and writes the code, let's talk.