Fractional CTO. Advisor. Full-time CTO or VP.
STUCK? OR JUST STARTING? I CAN HELP.
Turnarounds as a fractional CTO or advisor. Full-time CTO or VP to own a line or open a new one, even where compliance or a dominant player blocks the door. Seed stage to the Fortune 100.
(Scroll for the story, or skip it and email me.)
The Phases
SEVEN PHASES. EVERY COMPANY.
- DISCOVER. RUNWAY 0 MONTHS → 18 MONTHS Idea, first money, first hires. The clock starts the day the wire lands.
- VALIDATE. CUSTOMERS 0 → 100 Product meets market or it doesn't. Retention says which before the board does.
- PROVE. COST PER CUSTOMER $900 → $300 Make the sale repeatable and the unit economics hold. Growth flattens here on purpose.
- SCALE. HEADCOUNT 4 → 40 Headcount triples before the process does. Hiring, architecture, and delivery get decided here.
- EXPAND. MARKETS OPEN 0 → 3 New lines, new markets, the certification that unlocks a contract. Each one needs an owner from day one.
- STALL. MONTHLY REVENUE $900K → $300K Growth flattens, burn doesn't, and the next round gets harder to close. Renew or decline.
- RENEW. RUNWAY 6 MONTHS → 24 MONTHS Find the root cause, write the plan, hold the line until the numbers move. Then sell it, or keep it and grow.
YOU KNOW WHICH PHASE YOU'RE IN.
I've worked every one of these, as an advisor, as a fractional leader, and as a full-time executive on the org chart. Which phase you're in decides how I come in.
Which phase are you in? Email me.The Record
WHAT I'VE DONE.
Deals I've been part of. Click the public ones to read the news. The rest stay private.
Total Secrecy
COMPLETE SECRECY.
Nobody wants others to know their business was in trouble. Unless you explicitly allow it, your name and logo stay private. The names above are public because those companies said yes. Everyone else gets no case study, no logo wall, no testimonial, no mention. Advisory and fractional CTO work gets NDA-level secrecy by default. Same deal for you.
Leader & Advisor
HOW I HELP.
Three ways to bring me in. Pick the one that matches the job.
- FRACTIONAL CTO
A TECH ORG THAT SHIPS AGAIN.
Architecture, hiring, delivery, vendors, and the board update. Part time, and the tech org answers to me.
- You get
- A fractional leader for engineering who has carried a turnaround before.
- Pick this when
- The tech org needs a boss and you can't hire one yet, or the one you have is the problem.
- ADVISOR
THE DIAGNOSIS AND THE PLAN, IN WRITING.
I go through the product, the team, the burn, and the contracts, then tell you what's wrong and what to do about it. You run it and I stay on call.
- You get
- The root cause and the plan on paper, with me on call while you run it.
- Pick this when
- You've got the team and need the answer, or the board wants a second opinion before the next check.
- FULL-TIME CTO OR VP
ONE LINE, OWNED FOR THE LONG HAUL.
Full time, W-2, as CTO or VP. I take a business or product line and run it for years, or I open a new one: an integrations business, or a market gated by compliance, strong incumbents, or a dominant player.
- You get
- An executive who owns the P&L for the line, builds the team under it, and isn't looking for the exit.
- Pick this when
- You need a line owned or a new one opened, and the person doing it has to be on the org chart and in the building.
Where I've Helped
SEED STAGE TO THE FORTUNE 100.
Regulated or not. The same problems show up at every size, just at different speeds.
WHERE THE PAPERWORK SCARES PEOPLE OFF.
Finance, cyber, defense. FinCEN and state MSB licensing, the Bermuda BMA, audits, clearance-adjacent work. I've been through these regulators before.
NO REGULATOR. JUST SCALE AND POLITICS.
Fortune 100 and 500 software orgs. New lines that have to survive the politics, and old ones where delivery stalled years ago.
WHAT TO BUY, TURN AROUND, OR CUT.
Private equity and venture. Diligence before the check clears, triage after. I work for the fund.
Compliance Arsenal
THE PAPERWORK BETWEEN YOU AND THE CONTRACT.
Every one of these is a market you can't sell into without it. I've taken products through all of them, usually while the product was still being built. Tap one.
SELL TO GOVERNMENT
SELL TO ENTERPRISE AND HEALTHCARE
SELL IN EUROPE AND CALIFORNIA
MOVE MONEY
SOC 2 in 65 days. FedRAMP without the two-year death march.
Contact
ONE EMAIL AWAY.
Runway, product, team, or a line you want opened. Tell me what's going on. You'll get a call and a straight answer.
FIRST CALL
Secure video call. Free. Stays between us.
NDA
Want one first? Send it, I'll sign it.