Fractional CTO for Media & Entertainment

The first job is usually hiring. Getting your first two engineers right matters more than any architecture decision, because they will make most of the subsequent ones.

In media & entertainment, rights, attribution and factual accuracy are reputational risks before they are legal ones. That single fact reshapes how fractional cto has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.

The workload we are most often asked to take on first is highlight and clip generation, usually integrated against subtitling and dubbing platforms. We start from the constraint, not the capability, what the system must never do, who signs off, and what happens when it is wrong.

Built by engineers who ship production systems, not by a practice that subcontracts the build. You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.