CTO as a service

A technical partner who ships, and hands it over

For the agency or operator who has run out of road on rented tools. One person who owns the stack, ships every week, and packages everything so you could take it in house tomorrow.

Week 1 Audit the stack Week 2 First thing shipped Every week after Build, you approve, it runs Throughout Handover package
Something working in your hands inside a fortnight, then a weekly cadence. The handover package is built as we go, never assembled at the end under notice.
Who it is for

The operator whose next problem is not solvable with another subscription

An agency running client accounts on a platform whose limits now cost real money. An operator who has automated everything the tools allow and needs the part that has to be built. A founder who keeps quoting out work, waiting weeks, and getting back something that does not fit.

Not for a company that needs a full time engineering team. If the honest answer is that you should hire, we will say so, and we would rather say it on the first call than four months in.

The outcome

The thing you have been quoting out for months, running

Working software on your infrastructure, shipped in weeks rather than quarters, by someone who understands what the business is actually trying to do. You stop paying for the gap between what a tool does and what you needed it to do.

  • One person accountable for the stack, rather than a rotating pool with a project manager in front of it.
  • Decisions written down with the reasoning, so the next person can pick it up.
  • A stack that gets cheaper to change over time instead of more expensive.
The mechanism

Integrate first, build only what does not exist, hand over from day one

1

Audit before anything is written

What you run, what it costs, what it cannot do, and which of those limits are actually costing you money. The output is a short document with the order of operations in it, and you own it whether or not the engagement continues.

2

Integrate before rebuilding

Most of what an operator needs already exists in something you pay for, behind an API nobody wired up. We reach for that first. A rebuild has to earn itself against the integration, every time, and it usually does not.

3

A weekly cadence with an approval gate

Changes arrive as proposals you approve before they run against anything live. Nothing touches production because it seemed right on a Thursday. This is the same discipline we hold ourselves to on our own systems.

4

Packaged for handover as it is built

Every piece ships as an image and a compose file with a runbook: how to install it, how to update it, what to do when it breaks at two in the morning. Written while the thing is being built, not reconstructed after you give notice.

We will also tell you what not to build. Black hat tactics, anything that risks a penalty on a client's domain, and any plan that ends with us holding a key you cannot revoke, are all off the table and we will say why.

The proof

This site, and the systems behind it

The three other things on this site are not slideware. The scraping and enrichment service runs in production for another product. The voice fleet is twenty one live agents, and in September 2026 we moved the whole fleet onto a different model underneath and took the cost per minute from $1.26 to $0.20 without the callers noticing. The CRM is open source we extended and run ourselves.

This page is served by a container on the same machine that runs all of it, behind a tunnel, from a folder in a repository. Small, boring and completely under control, which is the point.

On a call we will open any of it and walk you through how it is put together, including the parts that are held together with tape, because every real system has some.

The speed

Audit in week one, something shipped in week two

You should have working software in your hands inside a fortnight, and a weekly rhythm after that. Bigger builds are sequenced so that each week ends with something you could keep, rather than a quarter that ends with a demo.

What you do

Give access, and answer once a week

  • Access to the systems, in your accounts, with keys you can revoke.
  • One person on your side who can say yes, and one half hour a week.
  • Priorities in business terms. We will turn them into the technical order.
The guarantee

Everything is handed over, by default, not on request

Every system we build for you ships as a deployable copy: the image, the compose file, the environment template and a runbook in the repository. Written as it is built. If you stop the engagement tomorrow, your team or a contractor can stand the whole thing up without calling us, and the hosted pieces you still rely on keep answering over an interface anyone can read.

We would rather be kept because the work is good than because leaving is expensive.

The price
[RAED] A monthly retainer for a defined share of the week, or a fixed price for a scoped build. The audit is priced separately, and it is free if it is the first thing we do together.
Get the number on a call

Anchor it against the alternative: a senior hire with the same range plus employment cost and a ramp, or an agency retainer where the person who writes the code has never spoken to you.

Start with the audit

Thirty minutes on what you run and what it is costing you. You leave with the order of operations, whether or not we ever work together.

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