- Ongoing engagement
- Retainer or project
CTO Advisor
Work with founders and leadership teams on platform architecture, technology strategy, and the structural decisions that determine whether systems scale coherently or accumulate fragility over time.
Why now
Architecture decisions are cheap to make and expensive to reverse. The window in which a platform choice can still be changed closes long before the consequences of it become visible, which is why the decisions worth reviewing are the ones nobody is currently worried about.
What you get
- Architectural tradeoff analysis
- Build-versus-buy decisions
- Technical due diligence for investors
- Technology strategy for leadership teams and founders
Architecture decisions set the shape of everything that follows. The choice made in a planning week determines, years later, whether the platform scales coherently or accumulates fragility nobody has budgeted for. By the time the consequences surface, the people who made the choice have usually moved on, and the ones holding it have no record of why it was made.
The work is platform architecture, technology strategy, and the structural decisions underneath both. Architectural tradeoff analysis, build-versus-buy calls, technical due diligence for investors looking at somebody else’s stack.
This sits next to the security work for a reason. Understanding what gets built is inseparable from understanding what can be protected, and having done both jobs means the architecture conversation and the risk conversation do not need translating between two people.
What it costs
Four figures per month, or a fixed fee by project (indicative)
Due diligence engagements are quoted as fixed-fee projects.