Ship faster. Scale smarter.
Stop guessing on tech.
I've shipped 50+ products and taken 20+ companies to market. Now I help founders get the technical leadership they need—without the full-time exec price tag.
50+
Products shipped
25+
Years leading engineering teams
20+
Companies taken to market
100K+
End users on platforms I've built
I work with founders who are…
- ✓Launching an MVP and need product/tech clarity
- ✓Drowning in tech debt and misaligned priorities
- ✓Scaling fast and need strategic technical leadership
- ✓Hiring engineers but don’t have a technical partner to vet decisions
- ✓Looking for product-market fit with lean, focused execution
What You Get
I've taken SaaS platforms from zero to thousands of paying users. Not code reviews—I help you build the right thing and scale it properly.
- A clear product roadmap tied to what your customers actually need
- Architecture decisions that won’t need to be rewritten at scale
- Your first 3–5 engineering hires—vetted and structured right
- Infrastructure that lets your team ship daily, not monthly
- An AI strategy that creates real value—not expensive experiments
- Technical due diligence that gives investors and buyers confidence
- A team culture that retains your best engineers
- Engineering managers who can lead without you in the room
- A scaling playbook from 3 engineers to 30+
AI Is Changing Everything. Most Companies Are Getting It Wrong.
The opportunity is real—but so is the waste. I help founders cut through the hype and make smart AI bets that actually ship to production.
Agentic Systems
Multi-step AI agents that take real actions—booking meetings, filing tickets, running analyses across your tools. I architect the orchestration, error handling, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
RAG & Knowledge Systems
Internal search over your docs, Slack, codebase, and databases. Hybrid vector + keyword retrieval with reranking—so your team gets real answers, not hallucinated ones.
Voice & Conversational AI
Real-time voice agents for support, sales qualification, and scheduling. I handle the latency, telephony integration, and human handoff architecture.
AI-Native Products
Products where AI is the core value—not a feature bolted on. Personalization engines, generative content, dynamic pricing. I help you build a moat, not a thin API wrapper.
Computer Vision & Multimodal
Document extraction, quality inspection, video understanding. Vision models are replacing legacy OCR and manual review across industries.
AI-Augmented Development
Coding assistants, automated testing, PR review, and migration tooling integrated into your CI/CD pipeline. I help your team ship faster with AI in the workflow.
Build vs. Buy vs. Compose
Most startups should call APIs, not train models. I help you decide which layers to own and which to rent.
Cost Management
A feature that costs $0.02 per request at 100 users costs $60K/month at scale. Caching, prompt optimization, and model routing are architectural requirements.
Security & Compliance
Prompt injection, data leakage, PII in context windows, SOC 2 and HIPAA implications. Solvable—but only with deliberate design.
How I Work
Every engagement follows a proven structure—so you see results fast, not months of “discovery.”
Week 1: Deep Dive
I audit your codebase, team, and roadmap. We identify the 3 biggest risks and the quick wins you can ship immediately.
Weeks 2–4: Strategy & Structure
We align your product roadmap with technical reality. I help set up the right processes, hiring plan, and architecture direction.
Ongoing: Embedded Leadership
I join your leadership meetings, unblock your team, and review critical decisions. 1–2 days per week, scaled to your needs.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute intro call to see if there's a fit.
Not a Consultant. Not an Agency.
I've been the CTO, the architect, and the product lead across oil & gas, finance, logistics, and AI—I've sat in the seat. I don't hand you a report and walk away. I lead your technology function like it's my own.
| Consultant | Agency | Fractional CTO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delivers | A report | Code to spec | Outcomes over time |
| Accountability | Advisory only | To the SOW | To your business goals |
| Team access | External | External | In your leadership team |
| Duration | Project-based | Project-based | Ongoing partnership |
Industries I've Built For
Every industry has its own constraints. I've shipped products across all of these.
Oil & Gas
Field ops & asset management platforms
Heavy Industry
Workforce & equipment systems
Financial Services
Trading, compliance & risk platforms
Logistics
Supply chain & fleet automation
AI & Machine Learning
Agents, RAG, voice AI, and AI-native products
SaaS
Multi-tenant platforms from zero to scale
What Founders Say
“Craig helped us cut through the noise and align our roadmap with customer needs and tech feasibility. He acted as our CTO when we needed one the most—without slowing us down.
“We were scaling fast and making expensive technical mistakes. Craig brought structure to our engineering org and helped us ship twice as fast with half the rework.
Let's Talk
Need trusted technical leadership without the full-time commitment? Grab a time and we'll figure out if there's a fit.
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