Advisory
I selectively advise founders, CTOs, and investors on software architecture, AI adoption, and technical risk.
Every area below is something I've carried hands-on accountability for — in the codebase, with the team, at the systems level — not a framework I recommend from the outside.
Founder / CTO Advisory
- Architecture decisions made early that shape everything after — before the wrong call becomes load-bearing.
- When to rebuild, refactor, or delete, before headcount becomes the default answer to a complexity problem.
- Reading a system you inherited and finding the shortest path to moving quickly on it again.
Engineering Leadership Advisory
- Diagnosing why a team has slowed down — where complexity crept in and what it would take to remove it.
- Adopting AI-assisted development with enough structure that speed doesn't cost comprehension.
- Turning deploy-as-an-event into deploy-as-a-non-event: test coverage, pipelines, and monitoring that tell the truth.
Investor / PE Advisory
- Reading a CTO's roadmap and delivery numbers the way an investor needs to, independent of that team's own framing.
- Assessing whether an engineering organisation can carry the growth plan in the deck.
- Technical debt as a carrying cost with real numbers attached, not a vague concern.
Technical Due Diligence
- Architecture and scalability risk under the load the growth plan actually implies.
- Cloud economics and AI capability — distinguishing prototype-grade from production-grade.
- Engineering organisation design and delivery process assessed as a business risk, not just an engineering one.
If one of these is a live question, send me a note.
No intake form. Tell me what's going on and we'll figure out together whether this is the right fit.