Fractional CTO · Technical strategy · AI integration
Fractional CTO and technical leadership for learning platforms.
I give teams that build learning platforms CTO-level leadership without a full-time hire: setting technical direction, fixing architecture that is slowing them down, connecting AI safely, and making the hard-to-reverse calls with evidence instead of guesswork. Every engagement is fixed in scope, written down, and led personally by a senior technology executive.
Describe your technical challenge
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Services
Three ways to work together. Each one has a written scope, a fixed price or a capped number of hours, and a clear end point.
Fractional CTO
- Own technical direction part-time: roadmap, architecture, build-vs-buy and vendor decisions
- Lead and mentor your engineers, set standards for security, quality and reliability, and help hire
- Translate technology into plain business terms for founders, boards and investors
- You get: a set number of hours each month and a written record of every decision
Monthly retainer · capped hours each month
Architecture & AI-readiness audit
- A structured review of your codebase, data model, infrastructure and security
- Where AI (LLMs, retrieval, MCP connectors) fits safely in your platform, and where it doesn't
- You get: a written report with risks ranked by impact, and a 90-day roadmap
Fixed fee · agreed before work starts
AI & MCP integration build
- Connect your platform to AI assistants through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, with scoped access and audit logging
- Retrieval (RAG) and knowledge-graph features grounded in your own content, with cited answers
- You get: working, tested code in your repository, plus documentation and a handover
Scoped project · quoted after the audit or a paid scoping session
Who you'll work with
Me, directly: a technology leader with more than 13 years building, scaling and leading the engineering behind SaaS learning platforms, from team leadership and architecture to single sign-on, security and applied AI. No hand-off to juniors. More about me →
How it works
- You describe the problemUse the short form below. It takes about 5 minutes.
- I reply personallyEither with clarifying questions, or a note that I'm not the right fit (and who might be).
- 30-minute scoping callWe confirm the goal, the limits and what "done" looks like.
- Written proposalScope, deliverables, timeline and price, all in writing before any work starts.
Fit
A good fit if you
- Run or build a learning platform
- Want AI features that are grounded, cited and auditable, not a chatbot bolted on
- Need senior technical leadership, or someone senior to own a defined problem from analysis to delivery
- Care how the system treats the people who use it and the data it holds
Not a fit if you need
- Open-ended "help with tech" without a defined problem
- Branding, logo or marketing-site design
- Surveillance or data uses your learners haven't agreed to