Start with "Fractional CTO" or "Data Architect" - you've probably heard those terms before and they're easy to get your head around. We bring a long track record of successfully building software products from the ground-up, raising funds, going to market, and turning around troubled teams. We strive to improve upon the typical consulting model We like to use hands-on work and delivering working code as a vehicle to derive more strategic and impactful insights. There is no "non-technical CTO (Chief Technology Officer)" here. You should be left not only with a finished product, but your own capabilities to maintain and build upon that product. What does "finished" even mean in today's business landscape? A business that's not innovating or evolving is probably dead. We want to plan our own obsolescence Typical consultants come with a myriad of problems — they might leave you with something you're unable to maintain, require expensive re-engagements, or even re-writes. We prefer our engagements to also provide a scalable architecture, policies and procedures, and management structures. We look beyond just a single project-based solution, including hiring and building institutional know-how. Your transitional CTO Hiring technical staff and finding technical co-founders is hard; knowing if they're doing a good job is even harder; replacing them if they're not performing can become near-impossible. Many companies, in desperate scrambles to hire someone to hit an upcoming deadline, either enter into a big commitment that turns out to be a mistake, or put off the decision to build correctly from the start. Let us buy you the time to comfortably make the right decision. What we aren't We are not a staffing firm that collects payments in order to help meet a quota of filled chairs. We do not measure productivity by the number of lines of code typed; "work" in a mechanical sense doesn't translate to accomplishing anything. We are not the generic "lowest bidder."