Four questions. Each one saves you money.
Every engagement starts with the business problem, not the technology. I’ll push back if the scope doesn’t match the goal, tell you if a spreadsheet solves it better than AI, and give you a clear recommendation — not a list of options. Fixed-scope, fixed-price, written deliverable.
AI & Technology Evaluation
Someone’s pitching a technology or AI project. Maybe it’s a vendor, maybe it’s your own team. You need to know: is this real, or is it hype? Is it worth the investment? Can they actually deliver? I’ll give you a clear yes, no, or not yet — with the reasoning behind it. Written evaluation of business case, technical feasibility, data readiness, and organizational fit. If you proceed, you’ll know exactly what needs to be true for it to work. If you don’t, you’ll have the reasoning you need to explain the decision.
Right for you if you’re being pitched an AI solution and can’t evaluate the claims, your team wants to build something and you don’t know if it’s worth the investment, or you need someone technical in the room who isn’t selling anything.
Technical Due Diligence
You’re about to make a big technology bet. An acquisition, a platform choice, build or buy. Your team has a recommendation, but you’re not sure you’re seeing the full picture. I provide an independent technical assessment: what’s sound, what’s risky, what questions you should be asking. For acquisitions, that means architecture evaluation, technical debt, and scalability. For build-vs-buy, it means an honest look at your internal capacity against vendor options. You’ll get a clear analysis of trade-offs and a recommendation you can act on — not a menu of options.
Right for you if you’re doing due diligence on an acquisition, making a major platform decision, or your team is too close to the problem to see it clearly.
Initiative Diagnosis
You launched something and it’s not delivering. Or a project stalled and nobody can explain why. The team is frustrated. Leadership is losing confidence. Nobody wants to be the one who says “this might not work.” That’s what I’m for. I diagnose the root cause — is the problem technical, organizational, or strategic? — and give you a clear recommendation: fix, pivot, or kill. If fix, you get a specific action plan. If pivot, what to keep and what to change. If kill, the cost analysis and framing to make the call without finger-pointing.
Right for you if a technology initiative is behind schedule and nobody can explain why, you shipped something that isn’t delivering, or you suspect the right answer is to kill the project but need the data to back it up.
Quality & Performance Measurement
Your technology investment is live. It’s working — you think. But how do you know? Most teams can’t answer whether their systems are performing better or worse than last month with actual data. I build a measurement system designed for your specific application: scoring logic, threshold definitions, and an integration plan for ongoing monitoring. When it’s done, you can answer “is this better or worse than last month?” with data, not gut feel.
Right for you if you can’t answer “how do you know this is working?” with data, you find out about performance issues from user complaints, or your stakeholders are asking for quality metrics and you don’t have them.
Fractional CTO
For mid-market companies that need senior technical leadership but aren’t ready for a full-time hire. I work two to three days a week with your team on architecture decisions, engineering team development, vendor evaluation, and technology strategy. Weekly check-ins, ad-hoc decision support, and a direct line when something urgent comes up.
I take on a small number of these engagements at a time. The goal is to build your technical capability so you don’t need me anymore.
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