Fractional AI CTO

What this is

I take the seat a full-time AI executive would take, and the accountability that comes with it. That means saying out loud which of the proposed initiatives are real and which are theater, writing the target-state architecture and defending it in front of security and finance, running delivery so things ship on the dates we agreed, and building the bench that owns it afterward. None of that is new to me. I’ve led a team of five architects whose standards a much larger engineering organization built against, been lead and scrum master to a platform team of five, hired and trained front-end teams, and carried security and cloud-cost accountability for an enterprise cloud estate. I still write the hardest parts myself. Reporting goes up in plain numbers: what shipped, what it cost, what it returned, what’s still risky.

Why it’s worth a premium

This is current work, not a memory. I’m fractional CTO to a high-growth startup whose engineering organization I built from zero — the hiring, the onboarding, the standards, the first line of the codebase — and since 2021 an executive advisor inside a Fortune-500 healthcare organization, the person leadership brings an AI proposal to before it gets funded.