Fractional CTO · Executive coaching
Technical leadership for the messy stretch between traction and scale
You don't need a full-time CTO to get through this stretch.
You need someone who's already been through it.
- Faster, predictable delivery
- Stronger technical foundations
- Less chaos
Inflection points
I help at the moments that define your company's trajectory
- Architecture or technical debt is blocking velocity
- Adding capacity isn't adding output
- Delivery can't be predicted
- Your customers are the QA
- Your leadership playbook has stopped scaling
- Your AI features aren't defensible
Two ways to work together
Embedded technology leadership
The judgment of a CTO who's done this before — architecture, hiring, and execution — working with your team week to week, without the full-time hire.
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Coaching for founders and technical leaders — think through the calls that keep you up at night with an operator who's carried the risk.
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"Ian has been an invaluable technical advisor and steadying force for me as a founder. He combines strong engineering judgment with rare emotional intelligence - helping me make better technical and product decisions while staying focused, grounded, and clear through the uncertainty of building an early-stage company."
"Ian helped TrueNorth (Series B startup) level-up its engineering power. Within the first months, Ian was able to take this young team from being months behind on the roadmap to a team that consistently delivered work on time."
"Our outsourced team was months behind schedule and continuously delivering buggy code. Ian helped us identify different team structure options, and facilitating a clear plan of action that got us back on track and improved the quality of our deliveries."
"After shipping a new data product, Shareaholic faced rising monthly infrastructure costs. By migrating development languages and re-architecting our data serving systems, Ian helped us achieved an 80% cost reduction and a 5X capacity increase."
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Let's talk about where you're headed
A short discovery call — no pitch, just a conversation about the calls you're facing and where a hand would help
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