Fractional CTO for Professional Services

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 professional services, every hour spent on internal documentation is an hour not billed. 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 research synthesis, usually integrated against practice management. We build the smallest thing that proves the case, put it in front of real users, and expand only what earns its keep.

Multi-model by default, so a provider outage is a routing decision rather than an incident. You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.