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At seed stage, splitting product and engineering across two senior hires creates a handoff seam right where you can least afford one. The case for a single technical leader who owns the roadmap and the architecture — and when that model stops working.
Read →AI is eating the outer ring of the product manager job — backlog grooming, research synthesis, status reports, competitive research. What's left is a denser, harder core: judgment, strategy, and the discipline to catch what the machine gets wrong. A fractional CTO's view on what to expect from a PM now.
Read →For decades, building software has meant passing work between people, and most of our tools exist to manage those handoffs. AI agents close the gap — and a vendor-neutral look at where product tooling is heading next.
Read →Adding features is easy. Removing them is where the real product leadership happens. Here's the sunset playbook I use to cut features without losing customers or breaking the team's morale.
Read →A 30-minute weekly engineering review a non-technical founder can run with confidence — the exact agenda, the questions to ask, and the signals to watch for.
Read →Why the traditional 12-month engineering roadmap fails at seed stage, and the lightweight planning artifact I use with clients instead — one that survives contact with reality.
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