Plain numbers.
No "contact us" games.
Month-to-month, cancel anytime, no equity required. Three retainer tiers depending on how deep you need me — and a fixed-fee Teardown if you'd rather start small.
- Weekly 60–90 min working session
- Monthly architecture & code-health review
- Roadmap owned and kept current
- Same-day "phone a friend" on big calls
- Investor-deck technical section reviewed
- Direct management of your devs / agency
- Hiring: spec, screen, interview, the call
- Hands-on where it matters most
- Sprint planning & delivery ownership
- Board / investor technical representation
- Full ownership of the engineering org
- Build the team & the manager beneath you
- Security / compliance leadership (SOC 2)
- Direct board accountability for strategy
- A defined hand-off to a full-time CTO
Start with a Tech Teardown — $7,500 · 2 weeks
A deep, honest review of your code, architecture, team, and spend, ending in a written verdict and a prioritized fix list. You'll know exactly where you stand in 14 days. Roll the fee into your first month if you go monthly within 30 days.
No contract
Month-to-month. 14 days' notice to cancel. That's it — no lock-in, no notice games.
No equity required
Open to a reduced-cash-plus-small-equity structure for the right early company — just ask.
Low-risk first two weeks
If we're not a fit, we part cleanly and you pay only for what was actually used.
/ hour
Why no hourly option?
Because the second you're watching a clock, you stop calling me with the decisions that actually matter. A retainer means you get my judgment whenever you need it — including the idea I had about your problem at 6am. That's where the value is.