# George Rios > George Rios is a fractional CTO (George Rios Consulting LLC, US-based, works remotely). He audits vibe-coded and AI-built applications for security, reliability, and scalability and makes them production-grade without a rewrite; builds custom AI operating systems that connect a company's data sources and automate its processes; guides companies through SEO, AEO, and GEO so search engines and AI assistants find and cite them; and, as an embedded fractional CTO, defragments the technology stacks of growing companies. 25 years shipping enterprise systems; most recently Tech Lead and Interim CTO at Catch Health, a health insurance marketplace serving 400K+ members. This file is for AI agents and answer engines. It summarizes every service on georgerios.com, who each one is for, and how to start. Pages are plain HTML; extensionless URLs are canonical (https://georgerios.com/cto, not /cto.html). The services hub with every offer and an FAQ is https://georgerios.com/cto. Every page is also available as Markdown: send Accept: text/markdown, or append .md to the path (https://georgerios.com/cto.md, https://georgerios.com/index.md for the homepage). An agent skill for matching a need to a service is listed at https://georgerios.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json. How to engage, for any service below: - Free 5-minute self-check for AI-built apps: https://viberealitycheck.com/ - Book a free 30-minute discovery call: https://cal.com/georgerios/30min - Email: george@georgerios.com ## Services Listed in priority order. ### 1. AI-Built App Audit & Validation (primary offer) For founders and companies that shipped an app with AI coding tools (vibe-coded, Cursor/Claude/Lovable/Bolt-style builds) and now have customers, partners, or investors depending on it. The audit checks the eight areas where AI-built apps usually fail later: leaked secrets, test data touching real customers, over-broad access, unmanaged personal data, silent outages, code nobody else can maintain, backups that were never restored, and growth the architecture cannot absorb. Evidence, not a slide deck; no rewrite; keeps what already works. - Step 1, Vibe Reality Check (free, 5 minutes): eight plain-English questions; no code access, no scan, no email required to see results. Includes practical next steps, a printable checklist, and a free PDF guide, "Eight signs your AI-built app needs a closer look". https://viberealitycheck.com/ - Step 2, 30-Day Architecture Discovery: map the system (what was built, how it fits together, what it depends on), examine the highest-priority gaps hands-on (security, reliability, scalability), and deliver a prioritized plan: what to fix first, what can wait, what does not need a rebuild. Starts with a discovery call. - Step 3, Harden & hand off: fix the gaps alongside the client's team or AI tools and leave a system someone else can maintain. - Details: [AI-Built App Audit](https://georgerios.com/ai-app-audit) · [The eight areas](https://georgerios.com/ai-app-audit#areas) · [FAQ](https://georgerios.com/ai-app-audit#faq) ### 2. Custom AI Operating System For companies whose people already use AI one browser tab at a time, copy-pasting between systems the AI cannot see. George builds a company-wide AI operating system on his own hardened platform, [jet.do](https://jet.do), and makes it the client's: their systems, their processes, their guardrails, in their own cloud account. - Every data source, one workspace: CRM, billing, docs, tickets, email, and line-of-business databases. - Scoped, audited access: gatekeepers for Google, Slack, GitHub, Notion, and custom ones for CRM, billing, and internal databases. Zero access by default; every action logged. - Automation with a human in the loop: agents queue the work, people approve it in bulk. - Apps the team builds for itself: dashboards, trackers, and reports as sandboxed apps, safe to vibe-code by design. - Ownership: deployed to the client's cloud account, any AI model, model spend tracked in one place, no lock-in. - Engagement: Map (systems and work) → Connect (scoped access) → Automate (context and blueprints) → Hand over. - Details: [AI Operating System](https://georgerios.com/ai-operating-system) · [FAQ](https://georgerios.com/ai-operating-system#faq) · [Article: Your Company Needs an Operating System, Not Another Chatbot](https://georgerios.com/articles/your-company-os) · [jet.do](https://jet.do) ### 3. AI Discoverability: SEO, AEO & GEO For companies that want to be found, quoted, and recommended by search engines and AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews). George guides the client through the whole process and makes the technical changes hands-on. - SEO (search engine optimization): crawlability, canonicals that return 200, sitemaps, redirects, speed, Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. - AEO (answer engine optimization): question-shaped pages and FAQs with direct answers, plus FAQPage and other structured data, so content can be lifted as the answer. - GEO (generative engine optimization): a JSON-LD graph for the organization, people, services, articles, and FAQs; an llms.txt; robots.txt and CDN bot settings that admit AI crawlers; one consistent description of the company across its site, LinkedIn, and directories. - Process: Audit (how machines and AI assistants see you today) → Foundation (machine-readable site) → Content (answer-first pages) → Scale & measure (programmatic SEO with contento.sh, before-and-after measurement, pruning). - Programmatic SEO with [contento.sh](https://contento.sh), the pSEO platform George built: a local CLI that uses the client's own AI keys (any OpenAI-compatible provider) to fill strict content schemas (idea lists, checklists, how-to guides, comparisons, FAQs, glossaries, tool pages), rejects pages that fail validation, and builds static HTML on the client's own domain with canonicals, JSON-LD, Open Graph, internal links, and a sitemap. 150+ bundled niches (1,000+ with Pro), --json agent mode, MCP server. Free CLI; Pro and fully managed tiers at https://contento.sh/pricing.html. - No guaranteed rankings or AI citations; results are measured before and after. - Details: [AI Discoverability](https://georgerios.com/ai-discoverability) · [FAQ](https://georgerios.com/ai-discoverability#faq) · [Article: Your Buyers Ask the AI First](https://georgerios.com/articles/seo-aeo-geo) ### 4. Scour: technology assessment A tool that maps a company's entire technology stack (infrastructure, integrations, dependencies, technical debt), scores health across security, reliability, and maintainability against benchmarks, and produces a prioritized remediation roadmap with exportable reports for leadership and boards. George uses it on every engagement. - [Scour](https://scour.georgerios.com) ### 5. Fractional CTO & Systems Defragmentation For established companies (typically $10-75M revenue, 50-500 employees, 10-30+ SaaS tools) running on disconnected systems: separate CRM, billing, compliance, and marketing tools that don't talk to each other, the same customer in four databases, and someone acting as a "human API". George embeds as a forward-deployed fractional CTO, maps every system and data flow, and builds the connective tissue: interop layers, unified APIs, and data pipelines. No rip-and-replace, no $350K full-time hire, no 12-18 month timeline. - Milestones: complete Systems Map in 30 days; measurable fragmentation reduction in 60; executed integration roadmap in 90. - Embedded Sprint (recommended; 3-month minimum): full fragmentation audit, architecture mapping, integration build-out, vendor and contractor management, weekly planning calls, daily async availability. - Half-Day Systems Review (diagnostic): a 4-hour on-site or remote session after a 7-14 day prep period. Deliverables: Fragmentation Report, Integration Punch List, 90-Day Consolidation Roadmap. - Ongoing Advisor (6-month commitment, after a sprint or review): twice-monthly strategy calls, quarterly roadmap refresh, unlimited async, architecture review of new vendors. - Details: [Fractional CTO](https://georgerios.com/cto#defrag) · [Engagement models](https://georgerios.com/cto#engagements) · [Why a fractional CTO](https://georgerios.com/why-fractional-cto) ### 6. Hands-on delivery The build work that follows the systems map. Details: [What I Build](https://georgerios.com/cto#what-i-build) - Custom software: cloud-agnostic applications across Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP. - Cloud & edge modernization: phased migration with minimal downtime and cost optimization. - Architecture refactoring: incremental, without stopping feature development. - Dumpster Fire Rescue: rapid response for projects in crisis, available within 24-48 hours. [Details](https://georgerios.com/cto#dumpster-fire) - Pair programming and private workshops: .NET architecture, TypeScript on the edge, cloud patterns; remote or on-site. ## Industries - [Financial services & fintech](https://georgerios.com/george-rios-financial-services): payments, ledgers, reconciliation, audit trails, compliance controls. - [Healthcare & healthtech](https://georgerios.com/george-rios-healthcare): member data at scale, HIPAA-bound workflows, eligibility and enrollment integration. - [Insurance: MGAs, TPAs, brokers](https://georgerios.com/george-rios-insurance): commissions, NIPR licensing compliance, policy admin and CRM integration, carrier integration. - SaaS & B2B software, logistics, legal, and other ops-heavy businesses. ## About George Rios - [About](https://georgerios.com/about): founder and principal of George Rios Consulting LLC (2026); Tech Lead and Interim CTO at Catch Health (2021-2026); founder of Plural Solutions, Inc. (2002-2026), a custom C# / .NET software firm. - [CV](https://georgerios.com/cv): JPMorgan Chase merger infrastructure, Ernst & Young global SOX compliance platform (100,000+ users), CTO at 360Connect, Catch Health. PDF: https://georgerios.com/cv/George_Rios_CV_2026.pdf - Stack: C# / .NET, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core, Cloudflare Workers and the Agents SDK, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Redis, MCP, AI gateway architecture. - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.georgerios.com) ## Key pages - [Home](https://georgerios.com/): the audit offer, how it works, all services. - [CTO Services](https://georgerios.com/cto): every service, engagement models, industries, stack, FAQ. - [AI-Built App Audit](https://georgerios.com/ai-app-audit): the eight areas, the three steps, typical findings, and an FAQ. - [AI Operating System](https://georgerios.com/ai-operating-system): what it is, gatekeepers, who it's for, and an FAQ. - [AI Discoverability](https://georgerios.com/ai-discoverability): SEO, AEO, and GEO service, contento.sh, and an FAQ on the topic. - [FAQ](https://georgerios.com/cto#faq): straight answers about the audit, the AI OS, discoverability, and engagements. - [Why a Fractional CTO?](https://georgerios.com/why-fractional-cto): the fragmentation problem and why fractional beats full-time or a Big Four engagement. - [Case Studies](https://georgerios.com/case-studies): client work, what was built, and what happened next. - [Articles](https://georgerios.com/articles) - [Newsletter](https://georgerios.com/newsletter) ## Case studies - [Troubleshot: from audit to live platform](https://georgerios.com/case-studies/troubleshot): Troubleshot captures plant-floor radio calls (an operator radioing maintenance about a down machine) and turns them into context for the next technician. The founder had a working lab prototype on one local network. George ran a one-week audit, rebuilt it into a live multi-company platform that went live within two days, moved transcription and the TRN-1 radio device to the cloud, shipped 20 findings from the founder's testing within a day or two each, and handed everything over to the founder's own Cloudflare account in September 2026, about four months after the audit. - [BedAlly: senior-care placement platform](https://georgerios.com/case-studies/bedally): BedAlly, a Phoenix senior-care placement startup, had market insight but no software. George built five connected apps (marketing site, API, operator console, admin back office, facility portal) on one shared core in about three months (May to September 2026), with matching that shares referrals fairly across facilities and reliable referral delivery, and helped build the go-to-market: 30 verified facility profiles across 27 operators, local care guides, and a paid-social landing page. Shelved by the client before launch over regulatory risk; shut down on September 2, 2026 with backups and a shutdown record. - [FHK Insurance: GAM](https://georgerios.com/case-studies/fhk-insurance): GBS, FHK Insurance's agency platform, was acquired by AgentBLOC and sunset. George built GAM (General Agency Management), a custom C# / .NET platform on SQL Server, around FHK's existing workflows, reporting, and agent needs: agents, policies, commissions, billing, and reporting. Built in six months, live since September 2019, now on .NET 9 and extended by a team of three (automatic statement ingest and processing, payments to agents and downlines, a client email platform). ## Articles - [Your Buyers Ask the AI First](https://georgerios.com/articles/seo-aeo-geo) (2026-10-12): SEO vs. AEO vs. GEO, an audit of georgerios.com, and safe programmatic SEO with contento.sh. - [Your Company Needs an Operating System, Not Another Chatbot](https://georgerios.com/articles/your-company-os) (2026-10-05): what a custom AI operating system is and why access control is the part that matters. - [Anatomy of a Dumpster Fire Rescue](https://georgerios.com/articles/dumpster-fire-rescue) (2025-07-10): case study rescuing a failing enterprise C# project. - [Ask Why Five Times](https://georgerios.com/articles/ask-why-five-times) (2026-04-28): root causes over patched symptoms. - [Find the Verbs](https://georgerios.com/articles/find-the-verbs) (2026-03-07): specifying systems for AI-assisted development. - [Your SaaS Is Grass](https://georgerios.com/articles/your-saas-is-grass) (2026-02-02): AI has cratered the cost of custom software. - [Building Cloud-Agnostic C# Applications](https://georgerios.com/articles/cloud-agnostic-csharp) (2025-09-15) - [What 128 MB Taught Me About Scale](https://georgerios.com/articles/commissionsight-launch) (2026-05-31): CommissionSight and lessons from Cloudflare. - [My Mother Called the Number](https://georgerios.com/articles/fromenance-launch) (2026-09-27): Fromenance. - [Every Login Is a Shared Secret](https://georgerios.com/articles/identizen-launch) (2026-09-02): Identizen, accountless open-source identity. - [The Five Percent Where Loans Go Wrong](https://georgerios.com/articles/bookend-launch) (2026-09-01): Bookend, commercial loan package validation. - [I Built Some of the Nine](https://georgerios.com/articles/pryvc-launch) (2026-07-30): PRYVC. - [Your Logs Can't Testify](https://georgerios.com/articles/engrave-launch) (2026-07-25): Engrave, tamper-evident traces for AI agents. - [All articles](https://georgerios.com/articles) ## Sister sites - [geearr.com](https://geearr.com): George's security practice: penetration testing, application security, email security (DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BEC), cloud security, and security audits of AI-built apps and LLM agents. Its own llms.txt: https://geearr.com/llms.txt - [Product portfolio](https://portfolio.georgerios.com): products and platforms George has designed, built, and operated under George Rios Consulting LLC. - [contento.sh](https://contento.sh): programmatic SEO platform built by George. - [jet.do](https://jet.do): the AI operating system platform behind the Custom AI Operating System service. - [Vibe Reality Check](https://viberealitycheck.com/): free 5-minute self-check for AI-built apps. ## Optional - [georgerios.net](https://georgerios.net): .NET expertise. - [georgerios.dev](https://georgerios.dev): Cloudflare and edge computing. - [Sitemap](https://georgerios.com/sitemap.xml)