Services
Three engagement models. Direct access to forty years of experience—from kernel code to the CTO's chair.
Blueprint
Not sure if your idea is buildable? Or you know what you want but need a professional specification before committing budget? Blueprint is a short, focused engagement that turns your concept into a complete technical specification.
You'll walk away with a document you can take anywhere: what needs to be built, how it should be architected, what it will cost to develop, and where the technical risks are hiding. It's the homework most people skip—and regret later.
Who It's For
- Business professionals validating an idea before committing to development
- Founders who need a build-ready spec to take to investors or a dev team
- Organizations comparing build vs. buy decisions
What You Get
- Complete technical specification document
- Architecture recommendations with rationale
- Development cost estimate (ranges, not guesses)
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Technology stack recommendations
Beta
This is the flagship offering. In 60–90 days, we go from validated idea to a working, deployable product. Not a prototype. Not a proof of concept. A real product that works.
I handle the architecture, development, and deployment. You stay involved at every step—but you're talking to the person writing the code, not an account manager translating for a team of juniors.
Who It's For
- Business professionals with a validated idea ready for development
- Consultants productizing their expertise into software
- Organizations that need a working product, not a committee
What You Get
- Full architecture design and technical planning
- Complete development from concept to deployment
- Direct access to the builder—no project managers in between
- Working beta deployed and ready for users
- Source code ownership—it's yours, 100%
Studio Partner
Your product is live. It's growing. Now you need ongoing technical leadership without the cost and commitment of a full-time CTO. Studio Partner is a monthly retainer for continued architecture, development, and strategic technology guidance.
This isn't theoretical fractional CTO work. I've actually been the director—hired engineers, managed managers, run multi-million dollar development budgets, made build-vs-buy decisions, evaluated technical acquisitions. I bring that experience to your product: guiding architecture, building features, evaluating technical hires, and making sure your product scales without accumulating the kind of technical debt that kills companies.
Who It's For
- Products that are live and need continued development
- Teams that need senior technical leadership without full-time overhead
- Organizations making critical technology decisions
What You Get
- Ongoing architecture leadership from someone who's done the director job
- Continued feature development—I still write code
- Technical hiring guidance from someone who's built and managed teams
- Build-vs-buy analysis from someone who's made those calls at scale
- Code reviews, roadmap planning, and quality oversight
Why Direct Access Matters
Full-Spectrum Experience
I've written the kernel drivers and I've managed the managers. I've shipped one-man products and 30-person product suites. Your project gets someone who has been every person on the org chart.
The Right Advice
When you hire a developer, you get developer advice. When you hire an executive, you get executive advice. When you hire someone who's been both, you get advice about what your project actually needs.
No Translation Layer
The person you talk to understands both the business problem and the technical solution—because I've sat in both chairs. No account managers. No telephone game. Direct access to the principal.
Questions
I work primarily with the Microsoft stack: C#, .NET, Azure, and SQL Server. For web applications, that means ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and modern JavaScript where it makes sense. I choose technologies based on what the project needs—not what's trendy. The goal is software that works and can be maintained for years.
Yes, 100%. The code I write for you is yours. You own it outright. No licensing fees, no ongoing royalties, no restrictions on what you do with it. It's your product.
Great. Blueprint gives them a complete specification to build from—no ambiguity, no guesswork. Studio Partner gives them senior technical leadership: architecture guidance, code reviews, and someone to call when they hit a wall. I work with existing teams, not against them.
Book a conversation. We'll talk about your idea, figure out if there's a fit, and I'll tell you which engagement model makes sense. No pitch deck required. Just come ready to talk about the problem you want to solve.
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