Services built for reliable delivery, not box-checking
Every engagement ties technical decisions to your risk, revenue, and regulatory context. We mix executive clarity with working-system depth—so roadmaps are fundable, architectures are shippable, and runbooks are honest.
How we engage
Strategic retainer (fractional)
Ongoing CTO / VP-Engineering function: staff meetings, design reviews, vendor negotiations, release governance, and escalation path for incidents. Weekly or bi-weekly cadence.
- Architecture council & ADRs
- Technical due diligence (buy/build/partner)
- Hiring loops & level calibration
Targeted sprints (fixed scope)
Deep work on a bounded problem: reliability program bootstrap, pre-audit system review, data residency plan, or mobile release hardening. Clear deliverable list and timebox.
- Written playbooks you keep
- Handoff to your internal team
Interim / rescue leadership
Bridge leadership for transitions: between CTOs, post-PE carve-outs, or while you close a key hire. Emphasis on stabilizing on-call, vendor posture, and technical debt paydown plans.
- Incident and vendor triage
- Board- and customer-facing updates
Fractional & advisory CTO
We sit on your side of the table: translating business bets into system constraints, and system limits into product trade-offs. Ideal when you have strong ICs or a first Engineering VP, but need seasoned judgment on architecture, roadmap, and risk—without a full-time executive comp band yet.
Typical cadence
Most retainers start with a 2–4 week discovery: codebase walkthrough, observability and incident readouts, data & identity map, and competitive tech gaps. We then set quarterly goals and weekly operating rhythms (office hours, pre-mortems, release go/no-go).
Output artifacts
Strategic: multi-quarter architecture outlook, TCO models for cloud, written technical narrative for customers or investors. Tactical: design review minutes, RFP scoring matrices, and escalation playbooks for production.
Signals this fits
- Rapidly growing eng team without a dedicated exec
- Customer SLAs and cloud bills both rising at once
- “We will get SOC2/ISO this year” without a shared map
- Key hire pending; cannot pause delivery
Want something lighter? Request a la carte workshops (architecture offsite, threat model jam, Service Level Objectives (SLOs) design day).
App & product engineering
iOS, Android, cross-platform, and the APIs they depend on. We focus on release quality, offline/spotty network behavior, and back-end contracts that do not shatter on v2.
Mobile & client
Build hygiene: crash analytics, feature flags, background execution limits, store review risk, and OTA or staged rollout plans that match your org’s change appetite.
Web & BFF
Latency budgets, API pagination and caching, CORS and security headers, and progressive enhancement for enterprise deployments behind proxies.
Backend & data
We review service boundaries, schema evolution, and pipeline reliability. Strong overlap with reliability practice and at-scale patterns—so features do not outgrow your operating model in six months.
Cloud, platform & SRE
We design and govern platforms so teams ship safely in parallel. That means identity, network, secrets, and observability as shared product, not tribal knowledge.
- Multi-account / multi-subscription patterns with guardrails, not gatekeepers.
- Data lifecycle & residency: when replication crosses borders, and how to test failover without drama.
- On-call and incident management planning: SEV definitions, comms channels, and learning loops; integration with PagerDuty/Opsgenie or your stack of choice.
- Chaos and game days within compliance boundaries: fault injection, dependency drills, and backup restores that you would bet revenue on.
Defense & CMMC (legacy line)
We maintain deep roots in CMMC, FCI, and CUI for DoD supply chain work. If your need is certification-aligned delivery and technical control implementation rather than broad CTO work, the original CMMC program is still the right entry point. Hybrid engagements (fractional CTO and a CMMC workstream) are available when systems overlap. UEI: RUANZRL3RL83
View CMMC tiers (external) →Due diligence, board & M&A technical
Sell-side: narrate the architecture story without hiding skeletons. Buy-side: 2–3 day technical deep dive with a scored risk register (security, scalability, people, and vendor lock-in). Integration: 30/60/90 plans that sequence identity, data, and customer-visible changes.