Why you'd trust me with this.

I've built engineering teams from 2 to 30, taken two companies through technical due diligence, and killed more bad rebuilds than I've greenlit. I'm not going to open with "15 years of experience" — what matters to you is what I've actually shipped, scaled, and saved.

I did the full-time CTO thing. What I realised is that the highest-leverage work — stopping early founders from making the expensive, irreversible mistakes — happens in the first hour, not the hundredth. So I work with several founders at once, at the stage where my judgment is worth the most.

That's the honest reason for doing it this way. I'm not between jobs and I'm not moonlighting. This is the job, and it's the one where I'm most useful to you.

The standard I hold myself to is simple: I'll tell you when you don't need me. I'll tell you when you're wrong. And you can fire me next month. If that sounds like the working relationship you want, let's talk.