Five engagements. One rule: you own what we leave behind.

Fractional technology leadership

Ongoing · monthly

You have technology decisions to make and nobody senior to make them with. A vendor is quoting six figures. A developer left and took the context with them. Your CRM does something odd and nobody can say why.

We take that seat: vendor calls, contract and architecture review before you sign, oversight of the developers you have, and technical risk translated into terms an owner can decide on.

• A standing weekly or biweekly session with the owner
• Vendor and contract review before commitments are made
• Oversight of in-house or contracted development work
• A running technology roadmap kept current, not filed away

Discovery and roadmap

Fixed scope · 2–4 weeks

Before we recommend anything, we watch the work happen — the person who runs payroll on Thursday, the one chasing invoices in an inbox, the one who knows which report nobody trusts. We document the process as it runs, not as the org chart describes it.

You get back where the business is exposed, what it costs in hours and risk, and a sequenced plan with each item scoped and priced. Building any of it with us is a separate decision.

• Process observation sessions with the people doing the work
• A findings document with risks ranked by exposure, not by ease
• A phased roadmap, each phase scoped and priced separately
• A review session with the ownership team to confirm priority

Custom internal software

Fixed scope · 4–5 weeks per build phase

Some processes have no product that fits: commission structures with caps, splits, holds and clawbacks; approval chains built around how an owner wants to review money before it moves. That work ends up in a spreadsheet, held by one person.

We build what replaces it. It reads from the systems you already run, applies your rules, shows the result for approval, and only then writes anything back. It runs on your infrastructure. The code is yours.

• Week 1 — design sessions, logic mapping, architecture sign-off
• Weeks 2–4 — module build with incremental reviews
• Weeks 4–5 — parallel run, owner training, handover documentation
• An admin screen so rates and rules change without a developer

AI and automation for operations

Fixed scope · standalone or inside a build

We apply AI where the work is repetitive, rule-bound, and already reviewed by a person: the same compliance form filled sixty times with different state headers, invoices read out of an inbox, copy that has to sound like one specific human wrote it.

A person always approves the output. Nothing files, sends, or pays on its own. Done that way, an annual twenty-hour task becomes a two-hour review.

• Document preparation — forms fetched, pre-filled, flagged for review
• Inbox-to-record intake for invoices and confirmations
• Threshold and exception monitoring that surfaces an alert, not a decision
• Brand-voice writing systems for owner-led marketing

Vendor selection and integration

Fixed scope · 1–3 weeks

Every vendor demo looks good. The question is which one survives contact with the way you already work — and what it costs you when it doesn't.

We evaluate the real options against the criteria that matter for your business, confirm what the sales call only implied, write the tradeoffs down, and name a recommendation with the reasoning attached. Then we connect the systems.

• A written comparison across the criteria that decide the outcome
• Capability confirmation against the vendor's actual API, not its brochure
• A named recommendation, plus the contingency path if it fails
• Integration build, if you want the systems connected too