I help you make the technical calls that are expensive to undo, from the first architecture to the first hire. You work with me directly, never with a team behind me.
I take on two or three partners at a time, never more.
AI tools have made building faster. They haven’t made judgment any cheaper.
Early technical decisions are expensive to undo: the stack, the first hire, the agency you sign with, what you build and what you buy. Most founders make these calls alone, or with someone who is paid to say yes.
I sit on your side of the table. I don’t sell you a build, a team or a retainer you don’t need.
It works for founders who can’t read the code and for founders who wrote most of it. What changes is where I spend my time.
| Non-technical founders | Technical founders | |
|---|---|---|
| My role | The senior technical voice you don’t have yet | A second senior engineer to think out loud with |
| I own | Architecture, build-vs-buy calls, vetting agencies and first hires | Architecture reviews, the risky parts of the roadmap, the hard problems |
| You keep | Every decision, with the reasoning written down | Your codebase, your team and the final call on every trade-off |
| You get | Someone who will say “don’t build this” when it’s true | A sparring partner who has shipped this kind of thing before |
| When it ends | A team and a codebase you can run without me | Decisions on paper and a clearer road ahead |
Thirty minutes. You tell me where you are; I tell you plainly whether I can help, and if not, who might.
I read the code or the plans, meet the people involved and write up what I see and what I’d do first. Yours to keep either way.
Advisory or embedded, reviewed every month. You can stop after any of them.
A standing weekly session plus async review. I look at the decisions in front of you, read what your team writes and push back where it matters.
Best for. technical founders, or founders who already have a team and need a senior second opinion.
I work inside your team on set days each week: in the architecture, the code reviews, the hiring loop and the roadmap.
Best for. non-technical founders before or just after the first engineering hire.
No hourly billing. A fixed monthly fee, agreed after discovery week.
A thirty-minute call, no deck needed. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so and point you to someone who is.