Services
A second opinion from people who still build.
Stack reviews, architecture sessions, fractional CTO support, and help hiring the people who will live with the result. Useful when the team is small but the decisions are not.
What this is
Advice from a team that ships.
We take on a handful of advisory engagements because the same judgement that makes our build work useful makes the advice useful — we recommend things we maintain ourselves. Sometimes that is a two-day review ending in a written verdict. Sometimes it is a standing half-day a week as the technical voice in the room while you hire a permanent one.
Typical engagements
- Two-day review
- Architecture session
- Half-day a week
- Hiring support
What you get
A written verdict
Not a slide deck. A document with findings, risks ranked by what they will actually cost you, and a recommended order of work.
Architecture sessions
Working a specific decision through with your team — build or buy, how to split a service, how to survive the next 10× — and writing down what was decided.
Fractional CTO support
A standing slot as the technical counterpart to your founders or board: roadmap sanity, vendor calls, and the awkward questions asked early.
Hiring help
Role scoping, technical screening, and take-home tasks that predict the job, so your first engineering hires are not a coin flip.
Fit
This is probably right if…
- You are about to commit budget to a direction nobody in-house can pressure-test.
- A vendor proposal needs reading by someone with no stake in it being accepted.
- You are hiring your first engineers and cannot yet assess them.
- Something is slow or fragile and the team is too close to it to see why.
Want to talk?
Tell us what decision is on the table.
A paragraph about the choice you are facing is enough to start. We reply within two business days, and if we are not the right people to ask we will point you at who is.