A fractional CTO is an experienced technology leader who works with a company part-time, providing the strategic and technical judgment of a chief technology officer without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive. For AI specifically, a fractional CTO sets the AI roadmap, makes build-vs-buy and platform decisions, reviews architecture, manages technical risk, and translates between business goals and engineering reality. It is ideal for startups and SMBs that have real technical decisions to make but don’t yet need, or can’t yet justify, a full-time CTO.

We set the direction: which AI use cases to pursue, in what order, on what platform, and how to measure ROI, the same thinking behind our AI transformation consulting, applied as ongoing leadership.

We own or review the system architecture and keep the build aligned to it, so engineering decisions compound instead of accumulating debt.

We make the calls that are expensive to get wrong, which to build, which to buy, which AI platform to standardize on, which vendors to trust.

For investors and acquirers, we assess a target’s technology, architecture and AI claims and tell you what’s real. (We’ve produced full investment memos and competitive analyses on real targets 

We bring senior judgment to an existing team, raising the bar on architecture, code and delivery, or stand up a dedicated delivery team under our oversight.

Our AI advisory is grounded in hands-on delivery on the OpenAI platform, GPT models, the Agents and Assistants APIs, Codex and RAG, so the strategy we set is the strategy we know how to ship. We advise on standardizing on OpenAI as a primary platform while keeping your data and corpus yours.

Most AI advice comes from people who don’t ship. Ours comes from someone who has architected and delivered enterprise systems for over a decade and still builds, Whirlpool and Bobcat engineering through prior companies, enterprise fintech for hedge funds, and AI products like Deckcraft AI ($200K raised, $100K ARR in three months). Advice you can’t execute is just slides; ours is backed by delivery.

Senior judgment, fractional cost. CTO-level decisions without a full-time hire.
Practitioner, not pundit. Strategy from someone who ships, so it’s executable.
Honest counsel. We tell you where AI isn’t worth it as readily as where it is.
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Startups and SMBs making real technical and AI decisions without a full-time CTO, founders who need a senior technical counterpart, and investors needing technical due diligence.