Shipped With AI? Start With a Reality Check.
You shipped in weeks what used to take a team months. Now customers, partners, or investors may be depending on it. Before a traffic spike, a customer security review, or an outage tells you what is underneath, find out for yourself — then decide what to fix first.
Vibe Reality Check
Eight plain-English questions across secrets, environments, access, personal data, outages, handoffs, backups, and growth. No code access, no scan, and no email required to see your results.
- See which gaps you reported and which areas still need verification
- Practical next steps, plus an optional printable checklist for your developer
- Free PDF guide: Eight signs your AI-built app needs a closer look
Architecture Discovery
You may already have a system worth building on. A 30-day discovery maps it, examines the highest-priority gaps, and defines a practical plan before any implementation begins.
- Map the system: what was built, how it fits together, and what it depends on
- Examine the gaps: hands-on review of security, reliability, and scalability where it matters most
- Define the plan: what to fix first, what can wait, and what does not need a rebuild
Starts with a discovery call to discuss your system and whether the engagement fits
Talk through your highest-priority gapI Defragment Technology Stacks
Most companies I work with are running on 10–15 disconnected tools. The operational platform doesn't talk to the billing system. Compliance is tracked in spreadsheets. Customer data lives in 4 different databases with 4 different schemas. Nobody has a map of how it all connects — because it doesn't.
I step in as a fractional CTO and do the work a full-time hire would take months to start: audit every system, map the data flows, identify the redundancy, and build the connective tissue that collapses complexity. Forward-deployed means I stay hands-on through the build — the roadmap ships, it doesn't just get presented.
Complete Systems Map — every app, API, vendor integration, and data flow documented
Fragmentation reduction — consolidated data pipelines, unified schemas
Executed integration roadmap — your team can run with it
How We Work Together
Embedded Sprint
Full systems fragmentation audit and integration build-out. I embed with your team for a focused sprint.
- Full systems fragmentation audit: core platforms, billing, compliance tooling, vendor portals
- Architecture mapping — every integration point, data flow, and gap
- Build interop layers, unified APIs, and data pipelines that collapse redundant systems
- Hire, evaluate, and manage vendors and contractors
- Weekly planning and review calls with your team; daily async availability
- Key deliverable: Complete Systems Map within first 30 days
Recommended 3-month minimum
Book a Discovery CallHalf-Day Systems Review
A focused, 4-hour strategy session to diagnose fragmentation and deliver an actionable consolidation plan.
Before the Session
7–14 day preparatory period to gather access to systems, vendor contracts, and architecture docs
The Session
On-site or remote deep-dive with technical and business stakeholders
You Walk Away With
- Fragmentation Report: Every system, how they overlap, where data is duplicated
- Integration Punch List: Immediate wins executable this week
- 90-Day Consolidation Roadmap: Phased plan to reduce system count and unify data flows
Ongoing Advisor
Ongoing strategic guidance after completing an Embedded Sprint or Half-Day Review.
- Twice-monthly strategy calls to review progress and re-prioritize
- Quarterly roadmap refresh aligned to business goals
- Unlimited async correspondence — email, Slack, or preferred channel
- Architecture review on new vendor selections or system additions
6-month commitment, available after completing an initial engagement
Discuss AdvisoryWhat I Build
The systems map is the start, not the deliverable. This is the hands-on delivery work that follows it — the part most advisory engagements hand off to someone else.
Custom Software
Cloud-ready applications built on 25 years of battle-tested patterns — cloud-agnostic architecture across Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP, on a codebase your team can maintain.
Cloud & Edge Modernization
Architecture assessment and strategy, phased migration with minimal downtime, and cost optimization — without trading one vendor lock-in for another.
Architecture Refactoring
Improve the codebase incrementally without stopping feature development. Technical debt assessment, modern patterns, and knowledge transfer as you go.
Dumpster Fire Rescue
Rapid response for projects in crisis, available within 24–48 hours. Assessment and stabilization, a triage and recovery plan, then hands-on execution with your team.
Pair Programming
Work directly with your team on the hard problems. Real-time problem solving, architecture guidance, and knowledge transfer through practice rather than documentation.
Private Workshops
Custom training on .NET architecture, TypeScript on the edge, and cloud patterns — tailored to your stack, with hands-on exercises and code reviews. Remote or on-site.
Industries I Work In
Fragmentation isn't an industry problem — it's a growth problem. The vocabulary changes, but the pattern is identical: too many systems, no map, and a team too busy shipping to stop and connect them. I've done this work in regulated environments and unregulated ones, on greenfield stacks and on twenty-year-old ones.
Financial Services & Fintech
Payments, ledgers, reconciliation, audit trails, and the compliance controls regulators actually ask about
Healthcare & Healthtech
Member data at scale, HIPAA-bound workflows, eligibility and enrollment integration, analytics pipelines
SaaS & B2B Software
Multi-tenant architecture, platform consolidation after acquisitions, technical debt that's slowing the roadmap
Insurance
MGAs, TPAs, and brokers — deep domain background in commissions, licensing, and carrier integration
What "Forward-Deployed" Actually Means
Most technology consulting ends at the recommendation. Someone senior interviews your team for three weeks, hands over a deck, and leaves you to execute a plan you didn't write. Forward-deployed inverts that: I work inside your environment, on your repos, in your standups, and the deliverable is running software.
In Your Stack, Not Beside It
Commit access, your CI, your ticket queue — I ship in the environment you actually run
Your Team Levels Up
Every integration I build gets handed over with the reasoning, not just the code
Decisions, Not Options
I own the architectural calls a CTO owns — and stay long enough to be accountable for them
No Lock-In
The goal is a stack your team can run without me. That's the exit criteria
Domain-Agnostic, Depth-Obsessed
I learn your business before I touch the architecture — whatever industry it happens to be in
Technical Depth
- Systems Integration: API design, data pipeline architecture, schema unification, ETL/ELT, interop layer construction
- Backend & Infrastructure: C# / .NET, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Redis, Docker, CI/CD, cloud-agnostic deployments
- AI-Augmented Development: LLM-optimized workflows, AI gateway architecture, MCP integration, custom tooling
- Regulated & Ops-Heavy Domains: Payments and reconciliation engines, licensing and compliance systems, PHI/PII handling, third-party integrations, regulatory reporting