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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

you

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.

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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 Projects
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Gearz

The home base for car culture: meets, clubs, garages, and event ticketing. Founder build, in development.

Gearz
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Kingdom Kode

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

Kingdom Kode
03

MiPi

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

MiPi

TELEMETRY

The Numbers Behind the Playbook

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Engineers Mentored

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.

A Brand Foundation, Not a Website

I came in with a clear vision for a new practice and no idea how to put it online. Alec listened first, then translated what the practice actually stood for into the digital experience. What I ended up with was a brand foundation, not a website.

Mark Schilling

Founder, architecture design practice

The Call I Make Before Committing

I can tell you exactly what I want the business to do. I cannot tell you how it should be built. Alec took that and came back with something I could actually run, and walked me through the trade-offs in language I understood. He is the person I go to now before I commit to anything technical.

Grace L.

Founder of GleeCreative

Undoing the Expensive Decisions

We had already made a couple of technical decisions the wrong way round. Alec unpicked them, told me plainly which were worth fixing and which we could live with, and then did the work. Having someone who holds the business and the architecture in his head at the same time changed how fast we could move.

Mike Pryke

Founder of Sorta

The Work Nobody Else Wanted

I gave Alec the automation nobody else wanted to own. He took the time to understand the system before he touched it, and what he built kept running without anyone babysitting it. He was solving problems above his level early, and he explained his reasoning well enough that the rest of the team learned from it.

Dewayne K.

Former supervisor, RL Canning (Honeywell)

THE CATALOG

Two Ways In

Buy the foundation outright, or bring me onto the team at the depth you need.

WareKit

Mode B: you build on mine

Free

/ to start · Pro $499 · Team $999

See all three tiers →
  • NetSuite starter kits, React or Next.js
  • Lite is the whole architecture, not a demo
  • Private repository access by invitation
  • Team licence covers five collaborators
  • Lifetime updates

Advisor

Best for pre-seed

$3,000

/ month · about 10 hrs

  • Two strategy calls a month
  • Async Slack and email support
  • Architecture reviews
  • Technology roadmap input

Fractional CTO

Best for seed to Series A

$7,500

/ month · about 20-25 hrs

  • Weekly strategy calls
  • Team mentoring and code review
  • Hiring support and interviews
  • Vendor negotiations
  • AI integration planning

Embedded CTO

Best for Series A+ or M&A prep

$12,000

/ month · about 35-40 hrs

  • Near full-time commitment
  • Direct engineering leadership
  • Board and investor reporting
  • Technical due diligence
  • Fundraising support
Book an intro call

Retainers begin after an intro call, with a $1,500 deposit credited in full against your first month.

Compare the kit tiers

FIELD MANUAL

Common Questions

Still have questions? I answer every message myself.

Get in Touch

Ready 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.