I help growth-stage businesses bridge the gap between product vision and engineering reality. Depending on your stage, team maturity, and speed-to-market requirements, I offer three primary ways to work together.
Strategic Advisory
Founders & CEOs: The 'Technical Sounding Board'
Leaders who have an existing engineering team but lack a veteran technical peer to validate high-stakes decisions.
Architecture reviews, AI roadmap validation, hiring strategy, board reporting, pitch deck technical due diligence.
Bi-weekly 1:1 sessions + asynchronous support via Messenger/Email.
Avoidance of 'expensive mistakes,' validated technical direction, and a confident leadership team.
Starting at £1,000/month (Flat Retainer)
Fractional CTO
Founders, CEOs & Investors: The 'Embedded Leader'
Growth-stage companies (£1M–£30M ARR) that have outgrown their early-stage 'hacker' roots and need professionalised engineering operations.
Engineering culture, scaling people and processes, managing technical debt, and bridging the gap between Board expectations and engineering delivery.
Typically 1–2 days per week. Fully embedded in your leadership team, standups, and Slack.
A high-performing engineering organization that ships predictably and a technology roadmap aligned with business growth.
From £6,000/month (3-month minimum commitment recommended)
Bootstrap a New Product or Feature
Anyone who needs an MVP: The 'Rapid Build'
Launching a new product or a significant feature pivot without the overhead, cost, or timeline of a traditional agency.
Turning a product vision into a production-ready MVP using a hyper-optimized AI workflow and my carefully curated tech stack, based on three decades of experience.
A fixed-term intensive period (usually 5–15 days).
100% ownership of a clean, documented, modern codebase that any senior developer can step into.
Fixed Price per Project (from £7,500)
Many founders think the “safe” route to an MVP is a dev agency. But agencies are built on overhead: account managers, project managers, and junior developers who are learning at your cost.
I offer a “Studio of One” model. By combining 38 years of architectural experience with a hyper-optimized AI workflow, I collapse the traditional agency timeline from months into days.
Read more about how the Studio of One works.
Or book a call to discuss your tech challenge.
If you’re new to software engineering
I offer FREE mentorships:
Each year I mentor up to 4 individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them improve their skills, find better employment and further their career. Disadvantage comes in many forms, so get in touch if you’d like to see if you would be a good fit.