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Let’s Build Something Great
Ship faster & scale smarter on battle-tested foundations from a two-time founder and fractional CTO.
Turn Hard-Won Lessons
Into Shipped Product
THE PROTOCOL
How We Ship
Mode A
Built with you
Mode B
Build on mine
Pick your entry point
Grab a production-grade boilerplate, or bring me in as your fractional CTO. Both start from the same playbook.
Experience
Edge
Services
Content
Data
We architect it right
Foundations first: auth, payments, CMS, and infrastructure that survive contact with real users.
uptime
+38% traffic
Ship and scale
Launch on systems already proven in production, with a builder on call as you grow.
FIELD EVIDENCE
Shipped, not staged
Every foundation in the catalog was proven on a real build first. This is where it earned its keep.
View All ProjectsGearz
The home base for car culture: meets, clubs, garages, and event ticketing. Founder build, in development.

Kingdom Kode
AI products for business, and teaching people to build their own. Co-founded in 2025.

MiPi
The studio where this playbook was first productized. Founded in 2022 and still shipping.

TELEMETRY
The Numbers Behind the Playbook
Years Shipping
Companies Founded
Daily Laptop Setups at Honeywell
People Led as CTO
TRANSMISSIONS
The Technology Founders Build On
Founders bring me the technology decisions that are expensive to get wrong - architecture, security, the platform itself - and I own them end to end. Here it is from the people who have been on the other side of that work.
THE CATALOG
Two Ways In
Buy the foundation outright, or bring me onto the team at the depth you need.
Advisor
Best when you built it yourself
about 10 hrs a month
- Two strategy calls a month
- A senior read of the code your AI tools wrote
- What to fix first, and what can wait
- Async Slack and email between calls
Start with a free 15-minute call.
A quick hello to see whether we’re a fit, before you pay for anything.
Free tool included: CTO Systems Audit Prompt
Intro call · 15 min · free
Fractional CTO
Best when the app is live and slipping
about 20-25 hrs a month
- Weekly strategy calls
- Bug and stability triage
- Security review, fixes in priority order
- Oversight of your vendor or developers
- Code review and a release process
Start with a free 15-minute call.
A quick hello to see whether we’re a fit, before you pay for anything.
Free tool included: CTO Systems Audit Prompt
Intro call · 15 min · free
Embedded CTO
Best when the vendor is gone
about 35-40 hrs a month
- Near full-time commitment
- Ownership of the codebase and the handover
- Direct engineering leadership
- Security hardening across the stack
- Board and investor reporting
Start with a free 15-minute call.
A quick hello to see whether we’re a fit, before you pay for anything.
Free tool included: CTO Systems Audit Prompt
Intro call · 15 min · free
// How it starts
Two free calls first
Find out if I can help before you spend a dollar.
Every retainer starts the same way: two free calls, with no deposit and no card, then a next step only if we’re a fit.
- Free
Intro call
15 min
A quick hello. We see whether we’re a fit.
- Free
Strategy call
45 min
Your app, your problems and your goals. You leave with the next move.
- Refundable deposit
Codebase Diagnostic
7 days
I dig through the code and hosting. The deposit is fully refunded if I can’t help.
- Fixed price
Stabilization Sprint
Fixed scope
The fix plan, done. The price is agreed before work starts.
- Advisor to Embedded
Retainer
Monthly
I stay on as your fractional CTO so it stays fixed.
Intro call · 15 min · free
Compare engagementsFIELD MANUAL
Common Questions
A fixed monthly retainer for a set number of hours. I own architecture, roadmap, and vendor decisions, ship code alongside your team every week, and sit in the meetings where technical calls get made. You get a CTO without the full-time salary or the equity.
The same foundation I start my own products from: Next.js 16 with the App Router, Payload CMS on Postgres, authentication, payments through Creem, and deploy scripts. Every piece has survived production on a real build before it lands in the catalog.
Yes. Each license covers unlimited projects you build and ship yourself, including work for clients. The only restriction is reselling or redistributing the boilerplate itself as a template.
Most engagements start that way. I begin with an architecture review, put the risks in plain language for leadership, and then work the plan with the engineers already on the team rather than around them.
Grab a boilerplate from the catalog and you are building in minutes. For an engagement, send a short note through the contact page; we will book a call, scope the first month, and start the following week.
Still have questions? I answer every message myself.
Get in TouchReady to build something great?
Bring the effort. The foundations are already built. Grab a boilerplate or bring me onto the team.
A crowned creator brings a masterpiece to life.