AGENCY / NO OVERSIGHT
An outside agency or contractors are building your product, and no one on your side can tell whether the work is any good.
Get back to what you know best.
We step in as your technology lead, looking after your engineers or agency and your roadmap, so you can focus on the rest of the business.
Book a 30-minute discovery callYou know the problem. You need someone to own it.
PROJECT / STALLED
A product or project is late, over budget, or stalled, and you can’t tell why or what to do about it.
MOMENT / APPROACHING
A launch, an acquisition, an enterprise deal, or an AI push is coming, and you need someone who has done it before.
You hand us the wheel. You keep the map.
You hand us
- Technical direction and architecture
- Your engineers, agency, and contractors
- The product roadmap and delivery
- Hiring and technical budget advice
- Security, infrastructure, and vendors
You keep
- Business strategy and priorities
- Final say on budget and big decisions
- Your customers and your market
- Full visibility, without managing the details
We aim to make ourselves obsolete.
Four stages. Start wherever you are.
We decide the right starting point together on the first call. Most engagements move left to right and end with your own permanent CTO in place.
Diagnose
We get you an independent answer before you spend more: what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do first.
- Technical Confidence Audit
- Scale Readiness Assessment
- Technical M&A Diligence
Transform
We fix what the diagnosis found, working alongside your engineers or agency rather than around them.
- Engineering Delivery Reset
- Vendor Transition
- Enterprise Customer Readiness
Lead
We step in as your technology leader, setting direction, guiding your team and vendors, and keeping you informed every week.
- Ongoing technology leadership
Advise
When you’re ready for a permanent CTO, we help you hire them, hand everything over, and step back.
- Technical Hiring & CTO Handoff
- Executive Technical Advisor
→ Then we step back.
Clear answers, in writing.
Every engagement ends in something you can act on. Here’s what a Technical Confidence Audit produces.
Fictional examples, not client results.
Summary of findings
- Product & UX
- KeepSolid foundation. Customers like it.
- Architecture
- RefactorPayments service won’t scale past current volume.
- Agency delivery
- ReplaceTwo of three releases slipped. No automated tests.
- Infrastructure
- KeepWell configured, but costs run about 30% high.
Top risks
- Payments fail above three times current volume.
- No one outside the agency can deploy the product.
- Customer data backups have never been tested.
Your first 90 days
DAYS 1–30
- Take over code, credentials, and accounts
- Pause new work on payments
- Start weekly delivery reviews
DAYS 31–60
- Refactor the payments service
- Begin the agency transition
- Add automated tests to every release
DAYS 61–90
- New team owns releases
- First on-time release
- Board-ready technology update
Your new team ships its first on-time release, and you have a technology update ready for the board.
Effectively your new CTO.
You get a weekly meeting, a shared channel for questions anytime, and a technology voice in your leadership meetings.
Illustrative examples. Acme is a fictional company.
A shared channel
Ask anything, anytime, in Slack or Teams. We answer in plain language.
- What shipped this week
- What’s at risk, and what we’re doing about it
- Decisions we need from you
- Next week’s priorities
A weekly meeting
What shipped, what’s at risk, and the decisions we need from you.
- CEO
- COO
- CFO
- VP, Sales
- Chaos Collective / Technology
A seat at the table
We join your leadership meetings as the technology voice.
Questions we hear before the first call.
Don’t see yours? Bring your question to the call.
We work with them first. Most teams are capable but missing direction. If the evidence says a change is needed, we’ll tell you plainly and manage the transition so nothing is lost.
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
Book a discovery call
We confirm the decision in front of you, who is involved, and whether we are the right fit. No pitch deck, no free audit.
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