Sprints, Fractional CTO, and Custom Engagements
Three ways to work with me. Pick a fixed-scope sprint, stay on monthly as your fractional CTO, or scope a custom engagement when nothing in the catalog fits.
The catalog
Pick the sprint that fits where you are
Each sprint is scoped, priced, and time-boxed. Agentic AI does the heavy lifting. I do the architecture, the judgment calls, and the parts a buyer cares about.
"Starts at" prices are the floor for a standard scope. Project cost scales with complexity. After a 30-minute fit call to understand what you are building, I send a written scope and fixed-price quote.
Ongoing engagement
Fractional CTO
Senior engineering leadership without a full-time hire. Take this on after a sprint to keep the work moving, or as a standalone retainer when you need a CTO-level voice in the room without funding a full salary.
Starts here. Cancel anytime. Scaled up as needed.
What's included
Weekly architecture and product review
Working session on what's blocking the team and what's coming next.
On-call for high-stakes technical decisions
Async or live. The calls that need a senior voice before you commit.
Quarterly tech strategy and roadmap input
What to build, what to buy, what to delay, what to retire.
Hiring panel input for senior engineering hires
Interview screens and second-opinion calls before you offer.
Agentic AI tooling guidance for your team
Claude Code, Codex, agent workflows. Practical patterns, not vendor pitches.
Best fit: founders without a CTO who need a senior voice, Series A teams between hires, post-acquisition companies with no senior engineering.
Outside the catalog
Custom product development
Sometimes a project doesn't map cleanly to a sprint. Long-term builds, multi-phase platforms, R&D work, or anything where the right answer is "let's scope it together." I take on a small number of these every year.
If your project does not fit a sprint but you'd want me on it, send me what you're working on. I'll tell you whether it's a fit and what scoping looks like.
This is also the engagement shape for what big tech now calls a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): embedded, senior, end-to-end, on a fractional or contractor basis.
Multi-phase product builds
Like Fitly AI: full-stack, multi-month, agent-driven from day one.
R&D on new AI capabilities
Prototyping novel agent patterns, RAG architectures, and tool-use chains.
Code modernization at scale
Legacy stack to modern architecture, agent-assisted refactor at speed.
Anything else, scoped to fit
Hourly engagements start at $200/hr. Custom scope, custom quote.
Not sure which fits?
Tell me what you are working on. I will let you know which engagement makes sense, or if a different scope is better.
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