The Complete Table
Seven disciplines. One firm. No account managers. From architecture decisions to fractional CTO advisory — the full periodic table of technical excellence.
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No hourly surprises. Rates published upfront.
We publish our rates because you should know what you're getting into before the first call. No "contact us for pricing," no bait-and-switch after the proposal. Every service has a posted hourly rate. Engagements are scoped before work begins. If scope changes, we tell you before the invoice does.
Architecture and Systems Design
The decision you make today will still be load-bearing in three years.
The decisions made in the first six months of a system's life determine the next six years. Architecture isn't about picking the right framework — it's about understanding the forces that will act on your system over time and building with those constraints in mind.
We help you make the right architectural calls before they calcify into constraints, and identify which existing decisions need to be revisited before they become crises. ADRs, distributed system design, streaming architecture, API contracts — the work that nobody sees until it breaks.
Whether you're starting fresh or inheriting a system that's already showing stress fractures, we document the decisions that got made, model the ones still ahead, and give you a clear picture of the tradeoffs at every layer.
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AI/LLM Integration and Strategy
If it only works in the demo, it isn't working.
We build AI systems that actually run in production — not proof-of-concepts that impress in a presentation and fall apart at the edge cases you didn't think to test.
RAG architecture designed for your actual data distribution, agentic pipelines with real error budgets, hallucination mitigation that goes beyond temperature tuning — the real engineering behind AI systems that stay reliable when the demo conditions disappear.
We also handle the operational side: model routing, cost optimization at scale, context window management for production workloads, and the observability infrastructure that tells you when your AI system has quietly started going wrong.
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Modern Web Development
Code your team can read, maintain, and ship without you in the room.
Framework-agnostic expertise across the modern web stack. We write code that your team can understand, maintain, and build on — not clever code that only the original author can decipher six months later.
Next.js, Astro, React, and standards-based development at production scale. Performance, accessibility, testing strategy — built in from the start, not bolted on after the audit finds the problems.
We pay attention to the things that compound over time: bundle size, Core Web Vitals, test coverage that actually exercises the paths users take. The work that keeps a codebase maintainable as it grows.
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Engineering Leadership
Scaling a team is a different skill than scaling a system.
Building and scaling engineering teams is a different skill than building software. From hiring and onboarding to establishing engineering culture and process, we help teams grow without losing what made them productive when they were small.
Technical roadmap, prioritization when everything is urgent, code review culture, quality standards that scale beyond the founding team — the organizational engineering that determines whether good engineers stay.
We work with founders, CTOs, and engineering managers who are navigating growth for the first time and want someone who's already debugged the exact problems they're about to face.
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Web Components and Design Systems
Your 14th Button variant is a symptom. The design system is the diagnosis.
Design systems that work across teams and frameworks. Web components built on standards — not abstractions that become legacy debt in three years when your framework of choice gets abandoned.
Design system architecture built on Web Components and web standards. Figma-to-code design token integration, cross-framework compatibility, and the infrastructure that makes your UI consistent without requiring a committee meeting for every button.
We focus on governance as much as implementation: a design system that nobody uses is just a side project. We build the documentation, tooling, and adoption patterns that make it easier to use the system than to work around it.
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Code Audit and Tech Debt
Before you can fix it, you need to know what you actually have.
Before you can fix technical debt, you need to understand it — not at a surface level, but in terms of business risk and engineering cost. A codebase that 'mostly works' can have load-bearing assumptions that nobody documented and everyone is afraid to touch.
We conduct thorough code audits and translate findings into prioritized action plans. Security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, dependency risk, architecture drift — the things that compound quietly until they become the reason an engineering team can't ship.
The output is written for engineers and executives alike: clear findings in plain English, with effort estimates your team can actually use to plan a remediation sprint or make a build-vs-buy decision.
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Fractional CTO Advisory
The most senior technical voice in the room. Without the full-time overhead.
Sometimes you need a senior technical voice in the room — for board presentations, vendor evaluations, architectural decisions, or just someone who will push back when the plan doesn't make sense. We provide that, structured around what you actually need.
Technical strategy, vendor evaluation, engineering team assessment, board communication — the work that sits at the intersection of technical depth and business context. Most fractional CTO engagements collapse because they try to be everything. We scope clearly: defined deliverables, clear cadence, specific outcomes.
We work best with founders who are technical enough to ask the right questions but stretched too thin to answer them, and with boards who need someone who can translate between engineering reality and investor expectations without requiring a glossary.
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Fractional CTO engagements are provided on a consulting basis. Consultants are independent contractors and do not assume fiduciary duties, employment relationships, or officer-level liability for client organizations.
All Rates at a Glance
Engagements range from $175 to $250/hr depending on service and scope.
Have a project in mind? Let's talk scope and fit before anything else.
Ready to complete your table?
Most engagements combine two or three elements. We scope every project around what you actually need — not what fits a retainer template. No account managers in the middle.
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