The #1 Reason Your Startup Will Fail (And It’s Not Sales) Jan 21, 2026 Your product is gaining traction. Customers are signing up. Revenue is climbing. By every external metric, you are winning. But inside your engineering organization, something is breaking. Releases ar... Read more
From guesswork to Formula: The Power of Fractional Technical Leadership Jan 13, 2026 For many founders and business leaders, technology feels like a roll of the dice. Without a deep technical background, every decision involves a certain amount of guesswork. Which stack should you use... Read more
Technical Debt Is Not the Problem. Losing Control Of It Is. Jan 7, 2026 In the startup world, technical debt often gets a bad rap. We talk about it like a disease to be avoided at all costs. But the reality is quite different. In the early stages of a company, taking on t... Read more
Vibe Coding Can Create an Amazing Demo. And That Is a Problem. Dec 19, 2025 Vibe coding has become the fastest way to get a demo on the screen. With modern AI tools, a non-technical founder can generate interfaces, wire up basic flows, and show something that looks like a pro... Read more
Clarity Turns Every Threat Into a Predictable Pattern Dec 11, 2025 Every fast-growing company encounters technical threats. A tight deadline, a new feature request, a shift in customer needs, a sudden change in priorities, or a platform limitation that surfaces at th... Read more
Pivots Don't Have to Be Chaos When Someone Steady Is Steering Dec 3, 2025 Product pivots are a natural part of building a company. Markets change. Customers behave differently than expected. Competitors move faster than planned. A new opportunity appears that redirects the ... Read more
How Fractional CTO Leadership Stops Legacy Systems From Slowing Your Company Down Nov 27, 2025 Many growing companies reach a point where the legacy system that once powered the business becomes the system that slows it down. Features take longer. Teams move cautiously. Bugs appear in places no... Read more
When Your Team Needs Direction, Leadership Matters More Than Headcount Nov 25, 2025 When a company begins building new software, there is a natural instinct to start by sourcing developers. It feels like the fastest way to make progress. If you have more hands on the keyboard, you ca... Read more
When the Roadmap Is Clear, Execution Becomes the Easy Part Nov 21, 2025 Most product and engineering teams are not limited by technical capability. They are limited by clarity. When priorities shift constantly or when direction is ambiguous, execution slows down because t... Read more
Why Winning in Tech Is About Strategy, Not Strength Nov 20, 2025 There is a common belief inside many growing companies that scaling technology requires more effort, more engineers, more hours, and more intensity. When engineering velocity slows or product prioriti... Read more
The Rise of the CTO for 10 Hours a Week Nov 19, 2025 There is a growing shift happening inside startups and mid-sized companies. Leadership teams are realizing that they do not need a full-time CTO to build a stable product, scale engineering, or make t... Read more
How a Fractional CTO Protects Your Business During a Cloudflare-Level Outage Nov 18, 2025 The Problem: What happens when a core provider fails Earlier today, Cloudflare reported a global network issue, with elevated error rates and widespread site failures. From a company perspective, the ... Read more