Technical Consulting & Advisory

Our head engineer leads every engagement and has been building software since 2014, including interfaces for the FAA during its modernization of the flight navigation systems used by pilots and air traffic controllers, software for SaaS companies and national utilities, and member platforms for labor unions and benefit funds. When an engagement needs more hands or a specialist, our team brings in experienced developers from our network, and you keep one point of contact.

Yes. A fractional CTO is senior technical leadership for part of each month instead of a full-time salary: owning the roadmap, reviewing architecture and major pull requests, checking vendor proposals and estimates, and giving leadership a straight answer on what's feasible and what it costs. It suits companies making real technical decisions that don't yet need a full-time CTO. It's billed hourly.

After a free consultation and an agreed scope, you give us read access to the code, documentation and, where useful, hosting dashboards and logs. We run the application, read the code, check dependencies for known vulnerabilities, review the database and its access rules, and follow how code is tested and deployed. We also talk with your developers, because the history behind a decision often changes the recommendation. One application usually takes one to three weeks.

For a review or audit: a written report with each finding ranked by risk and effort, a diagram of the current architecture, and a prioritized roadmap, walked through with your team. Findings can also go into your issue tracker as tickets. For fractional CTO and staff augmentation work, the output is the work itself: documented decisions and reviewed, shipped code.

Yes. Once the final payment is made, the reports, diagrams, code and other deliverables belong to you, and code we write in your repository stays there. We may show non-confidential parts of a project in our portfolio, never anything covered by your NDA.

Yes, and most consulting works that way. We work in your repository, issue tracker and chat, follow your review process, and pair with your developers rather than working around them. Recommendations come with the reasoning behind them, and knowledge-transfer sessions are part of the engagement, so nothing depends on us staying.

Yes. When your team needs more hands or a skill it doesn't have, we bring in experienced developers from our network to work remotely inside your team, for one project or an ongoing stretch. Our head engineer scopes the role with you, matches a developer to it and stays your point of contact. It's billed hourly.

Consulting is billed by the hour. Hourly Consulting, for individuals and small to mid-size companies, is $75/hr. Enterprise Consulting, for large organizations and high-growth companies, is $100/hr. A defined piece of work, like a code audit, gets a written proposal broken into phases with fixed hours and a fixed price. Ongoing help can be a monthly plan from $375 for 5 hours. The first consultation is free.

Confidentiality is mutual in our agreements, and we'll sign your NDA before you share any code or documents. If the work touches health information, we sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), as we have for labor union and benefit fund projects. You decide what access we get.

Yes: a periodic architecture check-in, someone on call for technical decisions, or carrying out the roadmap from the review. It's billed hourly as needed, or through a monthly plan from $375 for 5 hours.

Yes. Technical due diligence is a code audit and architecture review on a deadline: code quality, security, technical debt, how the system scales and ships, and what it will cost to keep running, summarized in plain terms for the people making the decision. We sign your NDA before any access.

Between our client work and earlier in-house roles: aviation (interfaces for the FAA), HR software, energy and utilities, labor-union benefits, regulated e-commerce, hospitality, and music and entertainment. Industry knowledge helps, but most of a code audit or architecture review carries over: data models, access control and deploys look much the same in any domain.